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Egypt Education Reform Project (ERP) Energy Sector Technical Advisory & Assistance Services (Energy II) FIELD-Support: Financial Integration, Economic Leveraging, Broad-Based Dissemination Focus on Results: Enhancing Capacity across Sectors in Transition Countries (FORECAST) Local Economic Development Initiative Moldova Agribusiness Development Program Orientation Visits, Conferences, Workshops, Training & Outreach Activities People, Energy & Development (PED) Services for Training, Educational Exchanges, & Professional Programs (One STEP) Strategic Technical Assistance for Results through Training (START) Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform (SEGIR) Youth & Community Action Project Past Projects	FIELD-Support LWA Financial Integration, Economic Leveraging, Broad-Based Dissemination FIELD-Support is a Leader with Associates Award (LWA) issued by the office of Microenterprise Development in USAID (EGAT/PR/MD) to the Academy for Educational Development (AED), along with the latter’s large consortium of 9 additional core partners and 17 resource organizations. The AED team consists of organizations with proven track records in reducing poverty and promoting sustained, equitable growth through microenterprise development, microfinance, value chain development, institution and human capacity-building, and the promotion of other market-based approaches to economic development. Our core team member organizations are: ACCION, ACDI/VOCA, Action for Enterprise, CARE, FINCA International, IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, Opportunity International, Save the Children and WOCCU. FIELD-Support encompasses both a core leader award (cooperative agreement) of $10 million and a mechanism for USAID missions to issue associate awards up to a ceiling of $340 million over the next five years. The leader award is intended to seed innovation, demonstrate better practices, document results and disseminate findings that will advance the frontiers of practical knowledge in relation to microfinance and microenterprise development. Under the associate award mechanism, missions and USAID operating units may issue awards, without further competition, to assess, design and implement comprehensive approaches to economic growth with poverty reduction, including but not limited to: Advancing the economic security of poor households and special populations, such as families hurt by civil conflict and natural disaster, communities hit hard by HIV/AIDS and other health issues Building more inclusive financial systems that provide access to all and meet the diverse livelihood and enterprise needs of difficult-to-reach clientele such as the poor in remote rural areas, youth, women, refugees, and internally displaced persons. Improving the competitiveness of micro and small enterprises and the value chains and/or clusters in which large numbers of them operate. Enhancing the overall policy and regulatory environment to enable broad-based economic growth. Contact: Paul Bundick, pbundick@aed.org Dennis Smyth, dsmyth@aed.org For more information on FIELD-Support Program and related USAID-sponsored initiatives, visit USAID’s microLINKS Web site. .	Current RFPs Project Stories Publications & Reports Contact Us Site Map
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