DAI, in collaboration with FT Longitude, has published a report exploring what is required to establish robust, transparent, and credible voluntary carbon market systems capable of attracting international finance
Read MoreDAI partners with the U.K. FCDO on the Climate and Ocean Adaptation and Sustainable Transition (COAST) program to assist coastal communities to build resilience to climate change.
Read MoreDAI today announced that DAI President Tine Knott will succeed Jim Boomgard as DAI’s Chief Executive Officer. Betsey Nelson, Chair of the DAI Board, said in a message to staff that Knott will take over as President and CEO at the upcoming Board meeting in February 2025.
Read MoreDAI-led projects and technical experts are participating in COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. This year, we focus on representation from our projects, who are best placed to provide local perspectives on climate challenges and successes, including successful efforts to mobilize and scale climate finance.
Read MoreDAI this week welcomed its newest Board member, Bruno Vinciguerra, to his first in-person Board meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. Vinciguerra, who joined DAI’s Board of Managers in September, has led companies across various industries, and today serves as a board member, investor, and advisor to entrepreneurs and senior executives around the world.
Read MoreMicroVest is coming under the umbrella of DAI’s asset management business and will be known as DAI Asset Management. The long-planned re-brand reflects the successful integration of MicroVest in the years since the two companies joined forces in 2021.
Read MoreUSAID Prevent’s Consecuencias campaign, which seeks to raise awareness among young people about environmental crimes in the Amazon, has won the 2024 Eikon International Award, in the social marketing category. This honor is the second Eikon award that the U.S. Agency for International Development-funded project has received for the Consecuencias campaign and the project’s third overall, having won the 2023 National Environmental Award.
Read MoreThe Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) program, a technical assistance program funded by the U.K. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, works with the Government of Pakistan to identify low-carbon projects with investment potential.
Read MoreDAI Is delighted to partner with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on a new program to assist countries in Eurasia and Eastern Europe—including Ukraine, Moldova, and countries across the Western Balkans and the Caucasus—in joining the European Union (EU).
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce the addition of two new senior team members to our U.K. office: Kate Wilson Hargreaves, Director of Climate and Environment, and Joe Phillips, Head of Trade and Investment.
Read MoreDAI officially launched the Promoting Integrity in the Public Sector Program (Pro-Integrity), the largest anticorruption initiative in Ukraine’s history.
Read MoreDAI today announced the appointment of Tine Knott as President.
Read MoreDAI recently partnered with the 2024 Indiana Global Economic Summit, the Embassy of Ukraine to the United States, and the Ukrainian community in Indianapolis to host a discussion panel, “All IN for Ukraine.”
Read MoreMoody’s Investors Service upgraded the Government of Jordan’s credit rating. “This is the first sovereign credit upgrade for Jordan in 21 years,” said Minister of Finance Mohammad Al-Ississ. The credit rating upgrade was facilitated in part by two DAI projects in Jordan.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to share the news that the U.S. Agency for International Development has named the Critical Infrastructure Digitalization and Resilience program as winner of a 2023 Digital Development Award.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to publish its Sustainability Report 2023, highlighting some of the impact we have achieved in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and documenting the progress achieved against our environmental targets and in areas such as diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Read MoreDAI, in partnership with Reuters Events, has published a new white paper exploring the pathways for developing a skilled global hydrogen workforce.
Read MoreThe Digital Impact Advisory Fund (DIAF) has concluded its second round of grant funding designed to support the digitalization of MSMEs in the Caribbean region.
Read MoreMicroVest, a pioneer of U.S.-based microfinance investing, today launched its new Impact Framework: The Pyramid of Intentionality (PI).
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce the addition of Marc Nahum to its expanding DAI Capital business as Managing Director for Investor Client Relations. Nahum—an industry veteran with expertise in fundraising, business development, investor relations, and investment banking—will lead the development and distribution of new private debt and private equity strategies for DAI Capital.
Read MoreDAI has published a new whitepaper summarizing the current trends in local content policy.
Read MoreDAI today announced that Casey Verbeck has joined its growing DAI Capital business as Managing Director, Impact Investment.
Read MoreUSAID has awarded DAI a place on its Global Health Comprehensive Technical Assistance for Health Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Management (Comprehensive TA) contract.
Read MoreDAI supported the delivery of the Awards in 2022 and 2023 by developing the award categories, reviewing and shortlisting applications, providing publicity and communications, and organizing the COP 28 award ceremony.
Read MoreNumerous DAI-led projects and technical experts are participating in the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Dubai, which runs from November 30 through December 12. COP is the decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Read MoreThe U.K. Government, through the British High Commission in Nigeria, pledged continued support to the Government of Jigawa State.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Apel to serve as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of MicroVest Capital Management (MicroVest).
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that Keith Butcher has joined the firm’s Board of Managers.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to be selected to lead the Scottish Government’s Climate Just Communities program in Malawi, a participatory project to support those most affected by the climate crisis to identify their own priorities and build their resilience.
Read MoreA new DAI report reviews local content and economic benefit requirements for offshore wind projects in the United Kingdom.
Read MoreDAI is honored to receive a Global Impact Award for the company’s work to support Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) and other relocation efforts for DAI employees in Afghanistan.
Read MoreDAI today published its Sustainability Report 2022, where we highlight some of the impact we have achieved in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while at the same time laying out how we ensure that DAI operates as a sustainable organization.
Read MoreThe MozUp Enterprise Development Center in Mozambique has officially launched its second office. The new office, in Pemba, will provide training to local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Cabo Delgado and neighbouring provinces in the north of the country
Read MoreOn Saturday, June 10, nearly 100 DAI staff, family, and friends participated in the Washington, D.C. Capital Pride Parade.
Read MoreThe DAI Alumni Network was named the winner of an award recognizing its achievements since launching in 2022.
Read MoreDAI today announced the addition of a specialized project finance company to its growing DAI Capital business. Based in Australia, the project finance company—previously doing business as Alinea Impact Capital—has a record of developing and financing infrastructure projects in the healthcare, water, and renewable energy sectors, including current projects in India and Indonesia.
Read MoreMozUp, the Enterprise Development Centre in Mozambique, has been selected as one of three finalists for the Basel Institute on Governance’s Anti-Corruption Collective Action award.
Read MoreThe DAI-led Nigeria Partnership for Learning for All (PLANE) project, funded by the U.K Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, is introducing the concept of safeguarding in education settings.
Read MoreDAI Board member Elizabeth Littlefield has been included in Reuters Impact’s list of women leading the fight against climate change.
Read MoreThe Digital Impact Advisory Fund (DIAF) has opened applications for its second round of funding for Caribbean businesses that support the digitalization of regional micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). The second round of grants is focused on supporting established businesses with existing customer bases.
Read MoreDAI has published an update to its review of economic benefit requirements for U.S. offshore wind projects.
Read MoreAnand Varghese has been named Senior Director of DAI’s Center for Digital Acceleration.
Read MoreWith assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded State Accountability, Transparency, and Effectiveness (State2State) Activity, Akwa Ibom State passed the Water Resource Bill into law, becoming the first state in Nigeria to adopt the national version of the bill.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce that it has achieved the internationally recognized ISO 9001:2015 certification for its operations in Nigeria, establishing the location as an operations leader in international development consulting and implementation.
Read MoreBuilding on 11 years of work with Honduran stakeholders and the U.S. Agency for International Development on a broad range of environmental and natural resource management issues, DAI is preparing for a new phase of collaboration with the launch of the Building Climate Resilience Activity.
Read MoreYobe State, Nigeria, recently received an award of excellence for its recent governance reforms in public finance management supported in part by DAI-led projects.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has named two DAI-led projects as two of five winners of the 2022 Digital Development Awards (the Digis).
Read MoreThe Fleming Fund project in Pakistan has been selected as the winner of a global antimicrobial (AMR) stewardship prize by the AMR Industry Alliance, one of the world’s largest coalitions of private-sector diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies seeking to curb AMR.
Read MoreCiting his administration’s efforts to fight corruption and improve governance, Nigerian President Muhammed Buhari recently opened the 3rd Ministerial Performance Review Retreat, an event facilitated by the Partnership to Engage, Reform, and Learn (PERL) project, which is funded by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and in part led by DAI.
Read MoreDAI has launched Unburdened, a podcast that gives DAI’s cut on global health issues that go beyond healthcare.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce the launch of a new professional community that will bring together current and former DAI staff from around the world. The DAI Alumni Network will provide spaces—both in person and online—for connection, collaboration, and continued engagement with the company’s mission: shaping a more livable world.
Read MoreThe European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria project recently formally closed out its first phase and hosted a launch of its second phase which runs through 2027. The event was both a discussion of accomplishments from the project’s first phase and an opportunity to share plans for the second phase.
Read MoreDAI’s Country Director in Nigeria Dr. Joe Abah recently provided the keynote speech at the Nexford Nigeria 2022 graduation ceremony.
Read MoreAn international response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FIF aims to improve transparency, collaboration, and response mechanisms to address global health security threats. Financed by the G20 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank, it will aid low- and middle-income countries to prepare for and prevent future pandemics.
Read MoreDAI today announced that Juan Pujadas has joined the DAI Board of Managers. A retired principal at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Pujadas has global experience in leadership, professional services, banking, finance, mergers and acquisitions, technology, and risk and crisis management.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce that it has achieved ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certification for its operations in Austria, joining DAI offices in Belgium and the United Kingdom in holding the internationally recognized quality and environmental management qualifications.
Read MoreDAI has published a new technical report that reviews the requirements for local content and economic benefit requirements for offshore wind projects constructed in the United States.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Business Egypt project, in partnership with Egypt’s Ministry of International Cooperation, recently launched the ClimaTech Run global competition, which invites tech entrepreneurs and digital artists with innovative ideas on climate action to compete for an opportunity to present their work at COP27.
Read MoreDAI is supporting the Indonesian Government to host a side event on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) ahead of this year’s G20 meeting in Bali. The event is part of the G20 Presidency’s health track, which is working to tackle drug resistance through expanding global AMR surveillance and a multisectoral, One Health approach.
Read MoreDAI is again partnering with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Honduras on broad reform efforts to reduce impunity and corruption within the Honduran justice system.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that an internal unit has been appraised again at CMMI Maturity Level 3, after achieving the same appraisal in 2019.
Read MoreA DAI Chief of Party from a project in Georgia is volunteering his time to help women entrepreneurs in Ukraine. Mark McCord, who leads the USAID Economic Security Program in Georgia has partnered with representatives of a Silicon Valley accelerator called United Market Access Center and with StartupGrind Georgia to launch the Safe Haven initiative—in coordination with a DAI-led sister project in Ukraine, the Economic Resilience Activity.
Read MoreOn a recent visit to Southern Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power spent a week in Zambia and Malawi, where she met with local farmers, agribusiness owners, and government officials to discuss the impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on food security and nutrition in the region, among other issues.
Read MoreDAI recently hosted members of Nigeria’s financial technology ecosystem to discuss the direction of financial regulation and its potential impact on the sector.
Read MoreDAI has become a member of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Coalition for Action Steering Group. The Coalition brings together world leaders to discuss trends, determine actions, and share knowledge and best practice to advance the global energy transition in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG7).
Read MoreMicroVest Capital Management today announced that Gil Crawford, co-founder and long-time CEO, has handed over day-to-day management of the firm to Joshua Moraczewski, as part of a planned leadership succession process.
Read MoreThe 2022 hybrid edition of European Development Days (EDD), held June 21-22, will focus on the European Union’s “Global Gateway: building sustainable partnerships for a connected world.” DAI will actively contribute to this year’s event through a stand on the UKaid-funded Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa (TDDA) program; a lunchtime presentation with TDDA country coordinators from Chad and Cameroon; and participation in a panel about artificial intelligence and health.
Read MoreDAI Country Director in Nigeria, Dr. Joe Abah, recently spoke at the inauguration of the Carbon Chamber Project, by the National Chamber Policy Centre of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Read MoreDAI, one of the world’s leading development consulting firms, today announced the appointment of Gavin Wilson as Chief Executive Officer of DAI Capital, its investment banking and asset management arm.
Read MoreThe USAID Economic Security Program in Georgia has been shortlisted for the Emerging Europe Awards 2022 in the category, “Inclusive Entrepreneurship Initiative of the Year.”
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that the greenhouse gas emissions targets proposed as part of our membership in the Race To Zero initiative have been approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). The SBTi’s Race to Zero campaign brings together businesses, cities, regions, and investors to support what the campaign calls “a healthy, resilient, zero-carbon recovery that prevents future threats, creates decent jobs, and unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth.”
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing to consolidate ongoing efforts that address long-standing issues of corruption and public service delivery in Kosovo.
Read MoreSpeaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and seven U.S. House Representatives—Ted Deutch, Bill Keating, Ro Khanna, Andy Kim, Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff, and Eric Swalwell—attended the launch last week of the Small and Medium Enterprise Assistance for Recovery and Transition (SMART) project in Palestine.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a $2.5 million Innovation Challenge Fund in Vietnam called “Tomorrow’s Energy Creators,” designed to catalyze solutions to urban energy challenges. U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry, U.S. Ambassador Marc Knapper, and others attended the launch event where the first five awardees were announced.
Read MoreOn February 4, Haitian Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry declared the country free of cholera—nearly 12 years after the outbreak of the epidemic.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to participate in the 7th EU-Africa Business Forum, taking place online from February 14–18.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Governance and Local Accountability (HOVERLA) activity supported a historic forum in Ukraine setting the legislative agenda.
Read MoreThe DAI-led Centre for Local Business Development completed its first women-focused entrepreneurship program, Accelerate-Her, in Georgetown, Guyana.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to submit its 2021 Communication on Progress to the United Nations Global Compact.
Read MoreThe Stemazone initiative for Omani youth, funded by Khimji Ramdas Eshraqa and designed and implemented by DAI, was a big winner at this month’s Future Skills and Human Resources Development Conference 2021 in Muscat, Oman. The Arabian Research Bureau ARB/OITE presented awards to Eshraqa—the social development arm of Omani conglomerate Khimji Ramdas—in three categories: “Future Technology,” “Robotics,” and “Best of the Best.”
Read MoreA video produced by the Georgian National Tourism Administration with support from the DAI-led USAID Economic Security Program has been named the best video in Europe in the “Tourism in the Decade of Action” category and one of the five best in the world by the United Nations’ World Tourism Organization.
Read MoreBobby Jefferson has been named DAI’s Global Head of Diversity, Equity, Engagement, and Inclusion (DEEI). Jefferson was previously Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DAI Global Health, where he helped establish DAI’s successful digital and global health teams.
Read MoreIn November, MozUp, the Enterprise Development Centre in Mozambique, officially launched its Maputo office. MozUp delivers a variety of supplier development services to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Read MoreDAI announced today that it has acquired MicroVest Capital Management (“MicroVest”), one of the world’s leading lenders to responsible finance institutions—an acquisition that will expand the capabilities of DAI’s investment management arm, DAI Capital.
Read MoreDAI has been recognized by the Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) with an award as part of the foundation’s 10-year anniversary celebration of making a difference by reducing poverty, powering coastal communities, catalyzing youth employment, fostering stability, empowering local organizations and enabling development in the Niger Delta region.
Read MoreWe are delighted to report that DAI—through DAI Magister, the investment fundraising and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory arm of DAI Capital—served as co-advisor for Capricorn Digital (trading as Baxi) in its recently announced purchase by MFS Africa.
Read MoreAt least nine DAI-led projects and a number of technical experts are participating in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) convention in Glasgow, starting October 31 and running through November 12. COP is the decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and this convention is the overarching international agreement on taking action to address climate change.
Read MoreIn March, DAI signed up to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) as part of a company-wide effort to reduce corporate greenhouse gas emissions and curb climate impact—all with an eye to supporting the global commitment agreed in Paris to reach Net Zero by 2050.
Read MoreTwo investment projects of the World Bank-funded Finance for Jobs (F4J) program in Palestine have won an award from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat (UN Climate Change) in the category, “Financing for Climate Friendly Investment.”
Read MoreGuyana’s Centre for Local Business Development, managed by DAI since its launch in 2017, has completed the first phase of its cutting-edge women’s entrepreneurship program, Accelerate-Her.
Read MoreDAI is implementing Technical Assistance for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources, a European Union project that contributes to the security of energy supply, a more competitive energy market, and sustainable energy development in Serbia.
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Bobby Jefferson—Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DAI Global Health—has been elected to the Society for International Development-Washington, D.C. Chapter (SID-W) Board of Directors. Jefferson first joined the Board last year.
Read MoreDAI will launch an innovative digital tool to help diversify and localize corporate supply chains. The Supplier Management Portal (SMP), launching in the third quarter, is a cloud-based platform that connects large-scale buyers to local small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Read MoreDAI recently sponsored a STEM coding camp in partnership with North Carolina-based Snipes Academy of Arts and Design for 10 elementary school-aged girls.
Read MoreDAI, through its Sustainable Business Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding with HomeBiogas, a global leader in biogas systems
Read MoreGuyana’s Centre for Local Business Development has launched a cutting-edge women’s entrepreneurship programme, Accelerate-Her.
Read MoreDAI’s Senior Vice President of Global Workforce Sarah Helmstadter is part of a new Task Force on Race and Equity in International Development.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to have been present at the European Development Days (EDD) on June 15–16.
Read MoreDr. Nitish Chandra Debnath, DAI’s Country Team Lead for the Fleming Fund Bangladesh program, is one of 26 global experts selected to serve on an expert panel convened to advise leading global health agencies on the development of a plan to avert disease outbreaks with the potential to trigger pandemics.
Read MoreDAI is partnering with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to establish a land record and registration system in seven districts of the Merged Areas of northwestern Pakistan.
Read MoreDAI and the European Centre for Development Policy Management will host a series of webinars designed to engage and inform global development stakeholders seeking a more inclusive and sustainable way forward from the COVID-19 crisis.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to welcome to the firm James E. Watson II, an accomplished executive who as Vice President for U.S. Government Programs will oversee a project portfolio encompassing 89 long-term initiatives in almost 50 countries. Watson comes to DAI after a distinguished 32-year career with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Read MoreDAI has signed on to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), part of a company-wide effort to act against climate change.
Read MoreA project designed with DAI’s assistance to mitigate the impact of climate change in four vulnerable Indian Ocean countries has won the support of the Green Climate Fund) (GCF), the largest global fund dedicated to addressing climate change.
Read MoreThe Finance for Jobs project in Palestine has awarded a grant enabling the installation of solar rooftops on 400 schools across the country, creating a total of 28 megawatts of generating capacity. The rooftop-solar installation is the largest electricity generation project in Palestine.
Read MoreThe DAI-led Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme in Ethiopia—one of the world’s largest land tenure projects—has launched a Knowledge Hub to share insights and lessons learned with local and international stakeholders.
Read MoreJette Findsen has joined DAI as Vice President, Environment. At DAI, she will oversee a portfolio of projects and lead DAI’s strategy for climate change programs with the U.S. Government.
Read MoreGuyana’s Centre for Local Business Development—managed by DAI since its launch in 2017—recently hosted the 2021 Guyana Supplier Forum.
Read MoreDAI is supporting ASEAN to establish a Public Health Emergency Coordination System to strengthen a unified regional response to future pandemics.
Read MoreEven as the world mobilizes to confront the immediate challenge of COVID-19, the imminent and long-term threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a pressing concern. President Dr. Arif Alvi of Pakistan affirmed his country’s commitment to tackling AMR at a recent meeting with representatives of the Fleming Fund Grant.
Read MoreKrista Baptista, the head of DAI’s Center for Digital Acceleration, has been chosen to serve on the United Nations’ Digital Impact Alliance Digital Principles Advisory Council.
Read MoreThe U.S. General Services Administration has awarded DAI a place on the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Solutions (OASIS) contracting vehicle, one of a family of indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts that “provide flexible and innovative solutions for complex professional services.”
Read MoreAt the close of a pandemic-stricken year that has proven challenging to so many people in so many ways, DAI offices around the world made charitable contributions totaling $18,000 to local service organizations. We would like to thank all of these organizations for the work they do to support our communities.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to submit its latest Communication on Progress to the United Nations Global Compact.
Read MoreAs part of a broader commitment to mitigate its environmental impact, DAI today announced a new corporate partnership with Trees for Life, a British conservation charity focused on restoring the Caledonian forest and rewilding the Scottish Highlands by planting native trees, nurturing seedlings, encouraging forest regeneration, and reintroducing missing species.
Read MoreTwo innovations supported by the DAI-led, U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Jalin project recently received Indonesia Healthcare Innovation Awards in the categories of “Healthcare Movement for Healthy Women Workers” and “Information and Communication Technology in the Health Sector.”
Read MoreA strategic partnership between DAI and Magister will help Magister accelerate its growth in frontier and emerging markets, in addition to its European tech franchise, and support DAI’s efforts to mobilize commercial capital in the places that need it most.
Read MoreAt the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) November Roundtable, GAN CEO Patrick Riley hosted a timely discussion on “How to Become a Global Ecosystem Leader to Accelerators in a Post-Crisis Economy” with panelists JF Gauthier, Founder & CEO of Startup Genome, and DAI’s Zaki Raheem, Senior Specialist for Enterprise Development and Entrepreneurship.
Read MoreDAI’s annual fundraising events for the Linda Norgrove Foundation, a grant-giving trust that provides funding for women, families, and children in Afghanistan, got creative this year in the face of restrictions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and raised more funds than ever before.
Read MoreThe new, five-year, $15 million Feed the Future Senegal Policy Systems Services, administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development, aims to strengthen Senegal’s agricultural and food policy systems by working with the Government of Senegal, the Senegalese private sector, and civil society to create an enabling environment that contributes to accelerated and inclusive growth.
Read MoreThe Society for International Development-Washington, D.C. Chapter has named DAI Vice President Bobby Jefferson to its Board of Directors. Jefferson is DAI’s lead development technologist and serves as Chief Technology Officer for DAI Global Health.
Read MoreDAI’s Eunice Heredia-Ortiz, a senior governance specialist in public finance and fiscal transparency, this week won the 2020 Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement from her alma mater, Georgia State University (GSU) for “garner[ing] an exemplary and longstanding professional reputation of achievement worldwide.”
Read MoreDAI recently celebrated International Literacy Day 2020 by facilitating a webinar—Inclusion and Education: All Means All—co-hosted by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and the Comparative and International Education Society’s Inclusive Education Special Interest Group (SIG).
Read MoreOn August 15, DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard joined Joe Abah—DAI’s Country Director for Nigeria—in addressing a small group of young men and their parents as part of the “Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood” (MMTH) Program, a long-standing effort to provide young men in Baltimore with guidance and mentoring. The group gathered in the New Shiloh Family Life Center in West Baltimore.
Read MoreA new case study, presented at last month’s Society of Petroleum Engineers’ virtual International Conference on Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability, outlines the strategies that helped the Centre for Local Business Development support economic inclusion in Guyana.
Read MoreDAI staff in the U.S office have raised more than $23,000 for 15 local charities and businesses suffering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreDAI will implement the Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) program, a flexible buy-in mechanism that will support the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in actively integrating private sector engagement and market systems development approaches into its programming across the globe.
Read MoreThe recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have refocused the world’s attention on racial inequity and injustice. These instances, hideous enough on their own, are an external, violent expression of the pervasive racism and discrimination that is seared into our societies.
Read MoreThe Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning Ministry has appointed DAI’s Nigeria Country Director, Dr. Joe Abah, as a member of the Governance, Institutions, Administrations of Justice, Anti-Corruption and National Orientation Technical Working Group.
Read MoreDAI condemns the murder of George Floyd, stands alongside the black community and all those who resist injustice, and avows that Black Lives Matter. And although words are important at this critical moment, we know that we must express this solidarity in actions as well as words.
Read MoreDAI and the European Centre for Development Policy Management announced a series of webinars designed to engage and inform global development stakeholders seeking to mount an effective response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Helmstadter to lead its company-wide commitment to nurture people and talent.
Read MoreDAI has named Jakob Zeidler to lead its European Union (EU) Business Unit, which focuses on delivering development programs for the EU.
Read MoreA Palestinian clothing maker that was assisted in 2018 by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has pivoted to producing face masks and other critically needed equipment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreThe Haiti Strategic Health Information Systems (HIS) program has developed a COVID-19 tracker as a mobile application with two modules—one to enroll and monitor confirmed cases, another for contact tracing. The tracker has also been built so its data will be shared on the HIS national dashboard, and to allow for cross-border interoperability with other countries.
Read MoreA 2019 recipient of DAI’s community service award is helping marginalized people in the Philippines become more self-sufficient.
Read MoreDAI has won a contract award from ExxonMobil to establish an Enterprise Development Center (EDC) in Mozambique. The Center will provide small- and medium-sized Mozambican enterprises with skills to participate in a variety of growth industries in the country.
Read MoreThe government of Nigeria has inaugurated a steering committee to drive the country’s digital identity programme. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Dr. Joe Abah, DAI’s Country Director for Nigeria, as a member of the committee, which has the mandate to fast-track the implementation of Nigeria’s Strategic Roadmap for accelerating digital identity development.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to make its latest Communication on Progress to the United Nations Global Compact.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to welcome Bernhard Hulla to the DAI Board.
Read MoreThe city of Monastir, Tunisia—supported by a European Commission project—was recently named at a special event at the UN Climate Change Conference as one of the five frontrunners and role models for climate action.
Read MoreDAI today announced the acquisition of Human Dynamics, a pre-eminent supplier of international development services in the European market.
Read MoreDAI is supporting the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to bring together international and diaspora investors with local businesses to showcase the investment potential of northern Iraq at the Ninewa Investment Forum on December 3-5 in Erbil, Iraq.
Read MoreUSAID Administrator Mark Green recently visited the Municipality of Pristina Procurement Office in Kosovo, to discuss developments in procurement and transparency.
Read MoreResearch from a project in Zambia supported by DAI Global Health along with consortium partners Development Data, Disacare, and Transaid International has confirmed that a pre-referral treatment by community health volunteers can increase survival rates for children with severe malaria.
Read MoreDAI has named Keith Smith to lead its HMG Business Unit, which focuses on delivering UKAID and implementing bilateral development investments for Her Majesty’s Government, principally the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Read MoreDAI hosted four fundraising events this month for the Linda Norgrove Foundation, a grant-giving trust that provides funding for women, families, and children in Afghanistan, focusing on education, health, childcare, and scholarships to help Afghan women go to university.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s David H. Gunning Award for Community Service. They are Joanne Symons, who works on the Strengthening Democratic Governance and Accountability Project in Sri Lanka, and Najalynn Caraway, an administrator with DAI affiliate IntraHealth International, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but pursuing her community service through a nonprofit in the Philippines.
Read MoreThe U.K. Department for International Development’s Women for Health Programme (W4H) has published a new report reflecting on the progress and lessons learned over seven years of improving women’s health and supporting women health workers in northern parts of Nigeria where female nurses and midwives are desperately needed.
Read MoreMembers of DAI’s Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WSSH) team will participate in the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill’s 2019 Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy on October 7–11.
Read MoreLeaders from DAI’s Center for Secure and Stables States will participate in technical sessions and will hold a panel discussion at the annual PeaceCon event October 3–4 in Washington, D.C. PeaceCon is hosted by the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a network of organizations working to end conflict, reduce violence, and build sustainable peace.
Read MoreDAI hosted a 16-person delegation from the Parliament of Egypt and Egypt’s Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Planning, Monitoring, and Administrative Reform for a roundtable on program-based budgeting.
Read MoreDAI today announced the appointment of Tine Knott to lead its U.S. Government Business Unit. As Senior Vice President, Knott will oversee DAI’s largest business unit, which is responsible for designing, marketing, and delivering DAI’s development solutions for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department, and other U.S. agencies.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce the appointment of two new global practice leads in its Environment Sector: Darren Saywell as head of the Water practice and John Leckie as head of the Land Tenure and Property Rights (LTPR) practice.
Read MoreOn September 12, DAI will host a panel event to commemorate International Literacy Day in Islamabad, Pakistan. Later the same day, DAI’s Vice President for Technical Services Brigit Helms will discuss her recent book—“Access for All: Building Inclusive Economic Systems.”
Read MoreDAI’s Center for Digital Acceleration (CDA) is pleased to announce it has become a member of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE), a global platform for countries, private companies, and international organizations to exchange best practices on cyber capacity building.
Read MoreDAI’s Senior Global Practice Leader for Education, Sakil Malik, was a keynote speaker at the recent 11th Pan-African Literacy for All summit in Kampala, Uganda, where he emphasized the importance of inclusive education.
Read MoreDAI today announced the appointment of Zan Northrip to lead three business units that focus on serving international development donors. In this newly created position—Executive Vice President, Development Partners Group—Northrip will ensure that DAI is generating and capturing synergies across its U.S., U.K., and European operations, and applying the best of each client’s practices to the broader donor-focused portfolio.
Read MoreChris LeGrand, President of DAI Global Health, last week published a book that lays out the seven essential dimensions needed to develop a “Complete Business Leader.”
Read MoreIn August 2019, DAI Strategy Analyst Dezhi Yu attended the Annual Meeting of International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) Commission 7, to present his modeling experience in land administration public-private partnerships (PPPs).
Read MoreDAI recently collaborated with New America’s Future of Property Rights program and Esri to provide insight into the implementation experience of the Feed the Future Tanzania Land Tenure Assistance (LTA) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Read MoreDAI and Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) are delighted to announce that PDO has awarded a contract to DAI to conduct the first phase of a study that will establish a comprehensive “in-country value” (ICV) strategy for Oman, encompassing sectors beyond the traditional ICV arena of oil and gas.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that an internal unit has been appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 3. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a capability improvement framework that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance.
Read MoreAt the 13th Annual ǼLEX Lecture, held in Lagos in July, DAI was represented by Nigeria Country Director Dr. Joe Abah, who, alongside other governance experts, debated about the drivers of a strong democracy—strong men or strong institutions.
Read MorePreteens in Takoma Park, Maryland, now have access to a new, free course to learn coding skills this summer, thanks to a partnership between Code Partners and the City of Takoma Park’s Department of Housing and Community Development and Recreation Department.
Read MoreNigeria Country Director Dr. Joe Abah was recently named as Co-Chair of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and will serve on its Steering Committee on Governance and Institutions.
Read MoreDAI’s Brussels office has earned the right to display the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification marks to demonstrate its conformance to these international standards. At the same time, DAI Europe’s headquarters in Apsley, United Kingdom, achieved recertification in both ISO standards.
Read MoreHelping developing countries put their finances in order has shown to be cost-effective development assistance. For example, the government of El Salvador has generated $2.4 billion of additional state revenue through a decade of tax system reform assistance by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Read MoreDAI Global Health is set to help implement the new Accelerating Support to Advance Local Partners (ASAP) project, a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative to prepare Sub-Saharan organizations and governments to serve as prime partners for USAID and U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programming.
Read MoreTeams from DAI Global Health and its affiliate, IntraHealth International, returned from the 72nd World Health Assembly (WHA72) in Geneva, Switzerland, praising the body’s resolutions to broaden access to primary healthcare and strengthen support for the local health workers—frequently women—who deliver that care.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to have been selected to host a lab and a stand at the annual European Development Days (EDD) event in Brussels on June 18–19.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that the Board of DAI Global, LLC is one of six boards recognized as Private Boards of the Year for 2019, an annual award presented by the publishers of Private Company Director, Directors & Boards, and Family Business magazines.
Read MoreA consortium of partners comprising Development Data, DAI Global Health, Disacare, Transaid, and Medicines for Malaria Venture are working with the National Malaria Elimination Centre in Zambia to scale up the highly successful MAMaZ against Malaria (MAM) pilot project.
Read MorePape Gaye, the CEO of DAI Global Health affiliate IntraHealth International, has been named winner of the Global Health Champion award by the Triangle Global Health Consortium. Gaye will receive the honor at the Consortium’s annual awards gala on May 7, in recognition of his lifelong commitment to advancing global health.
Read MoreActionAid UK this week released a global positioning paper on violence against women and girls around the world—and the barriers to justice they face. To author this work, the international human rights organization turned to DAI’s Sarah Maguire, Director of the company’s Governance team at DAI Europe.
Read MoreDAI’s education practice recently hosted panel discussions and a networking event on the subject of inclusive education. While the discussions were wide-ranging, there was consensus that education programs should make inclusion integral to their activities.
Read MoreDAI land tenure experts attended this year’s World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty and presented recent work in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, and Tanzania.
Read MoreThe Haiti government’s tuberculosis (TB) tracker marked World Tuberculosis Day with 29,900 patients enrolled and monitored less than one year after its launch.
Read MoreDAI Global Health and ClickMedix today announced a partnership under which DAI will make a strategic investment in ClickMedix, a leading provider of mobile health and technology services. In turn, ClickMedix will deepen its existing relationship with DAI Global Health to take advantage of DAI’s extensive international network and growing portfolio of projects in global health and digital acceleration.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched its Preparedness and Response P&R project five years ago to help select countries tackle deadly infectious diseases. In part because six in 10 infectious diseases in humans are spread from animals, P&R brought together country leaders in the human, animal, and environmental health sectors. Together, they built national One Health platforms to prepare, detect, and respond to disease outbreaks using a multisectoral approach.
Read MoreDAI Global Health is pleased to make available a Resource Library showcasing global health publications from DAI authors and projects, including peer-reviewed articles, technical briefs, and infographics.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development recently launched the Blended Finance Roadmap for Global Health to help agency units and other donors and partners attract investors for public health initiatives.
Read MoreChevron took a bold step in 2010 by launching the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND). Nine years later, PIND has grown into one of Nigeria’s leading catalysts for economic and social growth.
Read MoreA DAI-implemented project with the International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency to co-finance a solar energy facility was selected for the 2019 World Bank President’s Award for Excellence.
Read MoreAndrew Kitua, Africa Regional Director for the Preparedness and Response (P&R) project, will participate in Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) in Kigali, Rwanda, March 5–7, to make the case for integrating global health security with Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Read MoreDAI will serve as Shell’s global advisor on the strategy and implementation of LiveWIRE, its flagship enterprise development program focused on stimulating entrepreneurship, driving innovation, and generating meaningful employment in host countries.
Read MoreDAI is set to begin implementation of the Scaling Up Nutrition Technical Assistance in Zambia program. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the four-year project will support the Government of Zambia to reduce stunting among children under 2 years of age.
Read MoreLiberian taxpayers reported $12.5 million in taxes due through e-filing during the fourth quarter of 2018, marking an important milestone for Liberia in its drive for more transparent and robust tax collection and administration.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to make its first Communication on Progress to the United Nations Global Compact.
Read MoreDAI’s Margie Cook has been named an Officer of the Order of Australia. Cook was recognized on January 26, Australia Day, for her “service to the international community through the promotion of democratic electoral systems, and to human rights,” in a distinguished career that includes work in Afghanistan, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe.
Read MoreSakil Malik, DAI’s Senior Global Practice Lead for Education, has urged leaders in Oman to reconsider how their schools approach teaching science, technology, engineering, and math, known as STEM.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced the Feed the Future Tanzania Land Tenure Assistance (LTA) project as one of the 2018 Digital Development Award winners, also known as the “Digis.”
Read MoreA delegation from Northern Morocco is visiting England this week to draw lessons from government devolution practices in two distinct parts of the country—Greater Manchester and Cornwall. The delegation represents the Mediterranean region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceïma (TTAH). The group will conclude its visit December 14 in London.
Read MoreMore than 1,200 people representing local businesses attended the Liza Phase I Supplier Development Forum December 3–4 at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana. Hosted by the Centre for Local Business Development and ExxonMobil, the forum discussed the scopes of work of prime contractors and provided 2019 procurement opportunities.
Read MoreA new article in the peer-reviewed journal Health Security describes ways the World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Organisation for Animal Health, and others can work in synergy toward the containment of emerging and endemic diseases.
Read MoreBrigit Helms’ latest book, Access for All: Building Inclusive Economic Systems, will be launched on December 5 at the Women Impact Investing Network, a Washington, D.C.-based group that builds community, leadership, and knowledge in the impact investing sector.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce this year’s winners of the David H. Gunning Award for Community Service: Sajina Thapa, a Human Resources Officer on the Paani program in Nepal, and Modeline Acréus, an Infrastructure Program Coordinator for the AVANSE program in Haiti.
Read MoreDAI Board Member Marwan Juma will be leaving DAI’s Board next month at the end of his term and was bid a fond farewell at the November Board meeting.
Read MoreDAI Global, LLC, a worldwide leader in international development, with operations in more than 100 countries, and Sunera Technologies, Inc., a leading innovative technology solutions company with offices in Chicago, Illinois, and Hyderabad, India, today announced they have agreed to leverage their long-term strategic partnership to launch DAI’s Global Services Platform in Hyderabad.
Read MoreAnnie Baldridge and James McIntyre-Brown of the DAI Global Health team discussed solutions to Nigeria’s health financing gap at the Corporate Council on Africa Health Forum in Abuja, Nigeria.
Read MoreSakil Malik has been named DAI’s Senior Global Practice Lead for Education. He comes to DAI with more than 20 years of experience working on education initiatives, including in Cambodia, India, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and Timor-Leste.
Read MoreDr. Andrew Kitua, DAI Global Health’s Director for the East and Central Africa Region of the Preparedness and Response (P&R) project, and Robert Salerno, DAI’s Technical Integration Manager for P&R, will participate in the Salzburg Global Seminar session “Finding Outbreaks Faster: How Do We Measure Progress?” in Austria November 4–8.
Read MoreJerry Martin, DAI’s Senior Director for Global Health Security, co-authored a Lancet article, “Building the Case for Embedding Global Health Security into Universal Health Coverage: A Proposal for a Unified Health System That Includes Public Health.”
Read MoreLast week, several members of the DAI Global Health team were panelists, hosted skills-building sessions, presented posters, and co-hosted a reception with affiliate IntraHealth International at the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Read MoreDAI Global Health’s Dr. Fatima Adamu, National Programme Manager for the Women for Health (W4H) programme in Nigeria, spoke today at the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) Safeguarding Summit at the QEII Centre in London.
Read MoreTwo DAI Global Health experts presented at the 4th Annual Pandemic Policy Summit, at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at Texas A&M University.
Read MoreDAI Global Health and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) have signed a memorandum of understanding under which the parties will collaborate to establish a secure, reliable, and technologically advanced National Data Management Center for Health.
Read MoreDAI hosted a number of fundraising events throughout September to raise $5,754 for the Linda Norgrove Foundation, which provides grants to organizations in Afghanistan that support health care and education for women and children.
Read MoreThe Kosmos Innovation Center in Ghana has been named winner of the prestigious P3 Impact Award for 2018, which was announced September 25 at the Concordia Summit in New York City. The annual award was created by Concordia in partnership with the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Partnerships and University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business to recognize excellence in public-private partnerships that supports economic growth and other needs in developing countries.
Read MoreDAI Global Health will have a big presence at this year’s 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool, United Kingdom, by participating in three panels, co-hosting a reception with affiliate IntraHealth International, hosting a skills-building satellite session, presenting two posters, and hosting an exhibition booth.
Read MoreDAI Board Member Maria Otero and her husband Joe Eldridge were honored this week by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) for their vital contributions to human rights advocacy.
Read MoreThe Kosmos Innovation Center in Ghana has been named one of five finalists for the P3 Impact Award. The annual award, created by Concordia in partnership with the U.S. State Department and the University of Virginia, recognizes public-private partnerships that support economic development.
Read MoreDAI and Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in which the two firms commit to work together to sustainably improve the efficiency and productivity of food systems in developing economies.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to be presenting three panels at the upcoming 2018 SEEP Annual Conference, “Collaboration for Impact,” taking place in Arlington, Virginia, October 1–3.
Read MoreDAI’s Board was treated to a keynote speech by Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Governor-Elect or Ekiti State, in Nigeria as part of its quarterly meeting, which is held once per year in a country where DAI works.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to welcome Soilihi Massoundi as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
Read MoreThe Summer 2018 issue of DAI’s Developments newsletter is now available and includes stories about Nigeria’s growing competitiveness, investors filling demand in East Africa, the conjoining of experts in technology and global health, and seven more articles.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has named DAI its USAID Large Business Partner of the Year in recognition of the firm’s work with small businesses in 2017. USAID selected DAI based on its success in partnering with U.S. businesses as subcontractors, both domestically and overseas.
Read MoreA recent report that evaluated the sustainability of a DAI-led water resources and natural resource management program in Indonesia from 2004 to 2010 has shown that the majority of the partner water utilities continued to experience success after the donor-funded project ended.
Read MoreOne year after the combination of DAI and U.K.-based Health Partners International (HPI), DAI today announced that the HPI brand will be retired and HPI will operate under the DAI Global Health banner.
Read MoreDAI on June 25 hosted a roundtable in Nigeria to discuss ways to leverage the country’s increased competitiveness for agricultural productivity and broad-based economic growth.
Read MoreOur own Dr. Fatima Adamu has been named a finalist in the “Challenging Norms, Powering Economies” Challenge, an initiative of Ashoka, Open Society Foundation, and UN Women.
Read MoreDAI has developed a panel for the upcoming Cracking the Nut conference in Antigua, Guatemala, on June 12 and 13. DAI’s panel is about user-centered design for climate resilience and includes the following experts: DAI’s Rob Ryan-Silva and Jonathan Randall, MateoTech’s Norman Avila, and Anacafé’s Mario Choocoj.
Read MoreChild & Youth Finance International and Argentina’s G20 Presidency have named the Ukraine Financial Sector Transformation (FST) project a finalist for an Economic Citizenship Award in the G-20 Global Inclusion Awards 2018.
Read MoreJoin DAI on June 14 at 10 a.m. EST for an online discussion about what is necessary for successful mini-electricity grid business models.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to take part in two panel discussions at European Development Days, June 5 and 6 in Brussels, sharing our work on gender-responsive budgeting and sustainable value chains in the garment industry.
Read MoreDAI’s Global Health team participated in a lively panel discussion on the future of response to disease outbreaks for the CSIS symposium, “Pandemic Preparedness: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century,” which explored how U.S. and international policies aim to reduce the risk of a 21st century equivalent of the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918.
Read MoreDAI Country Director Joe Abah was one of several prominent speakers at Nigeria’s Open Government Partnership (OGP) Week. Delivered today at the Barcelona Hotel in Abuja, Abah’s address was titled, “To Whom Much Is Given: National Accountability Stewardship and the Role of Public Servants.”
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development has selected DAI to lead the Nguriza Nshore program in Rwanda. Nguriza Nshore—Kinyarwanda for “lend so that I may invest”—is a five-year project to support small-business growth in rural areas and create long-term jobs outside of farming.
Read MoreDAI Board Member Marwan Juma, Jordan’s former Minister of Information and Communications Technology, will lead a Tent Foundation panel in New York City showcasing Jordan’s innovative response to the Syrian refugee crisis.
Read MorePlease join the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, in collaboration with DAI Global Health, Mérieux Foundation USA, and the USAID-funded Preparedness & Response project, for a May 17 symposium addressing how U.S. and international policies aim to reduce the risk of a 21st century equivalent of the Influenza pandemic of 1918.
Read MoreIn honor of Agriculture and Labor Day, the President of the Republic of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, recently visited AVANSE exhibition at the Agricultural Fair held in northeast Haiti.
Read MoreDAI is today mourning the passing of Bryan Haddon, the founder and former Managing Partner of Health Partners International (HPI), which became part of the DAI Global Health team last year. He died on April 25 of mesothelioma.
Read MoreOn May 3, the Harvard Alumni for Global Development and Embassy of Haiti will host a discussion on how technology is being applied to link and unite health providers and facilities across Haiti. The event in Washington, D.C., will feature Bobby Jefferson, DAI Global Health’s Chief Technology Officer, and Jeff Mecaskey, DAI’s technical lead for economics and financing, evidence and learning.
Read MoreDAI’s latest white paper, “From Resilience to Growth: Realizing Jordan’s Development Vision,” outlines a development path for the Kingdom designed to generate economic development in the context of the Syrian refugee crisis.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce it has signed on as a participant in the United Nations Global Compact, the UN’s global sustainability initiative for corporations.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce that the President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain has conferred upon Harris Khalique the President’s Award for Pride of Performance, one of Pakistan’s most prestigious state-organized honors. Khalique was recognized for distinguished contribution to the field of literature and poetry.
Read MoreThe Advisory Service Social Transfers (ASiST III) Programme, funded by the European Commission, recently premiered a documentary video it produced to highlight the work done by European Union projects in Madagascar to assist smallholder farmers in adopting best food and agricultural practices.
Read MoreDAI today announced the launch of the Center for Digital Acceleration, a center dedicated to integrating cutting-edge digital tools into development practice.
Read MoreIan Rose, DAI’s Senior Principal Global Practice Specialist for Land Tenure and Property Rights, presented at the CASP conference in Mozambique.
Read MoreDAI’s Land Tenure and Property Rights team will present four papers at the 2018 World Bank Land and Poverty Conference, March 19-23 in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreDAI recently hosted leading figures from Nigeria’s government, civil society, and the international community in a productive discussion of the role of governance in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce it has joined the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), the global industry association for private capital in emerging markets.
Read MoreIke Osakwe, most recently the Managing Director of GRID Consulting, has joined DAI’s Board of Managers following the recent successful acquisition of GRID.
Read MoreGRID, Nigeria’s leading development consultancy, will join DAI effective immediately. A long-time partner of DAI’s, Lagos-based GRID specializes in financial advisory services, human resource management, and development program implementation.
Read MoreDAI has been selected as one of five holders of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s International Technical, Operational, and Professional Support Services (ITOPSS) III contract.
Read MoreCode Partners, a new coding academy based in Montgomery County, Maryland, held its official launch event at DAI headquarters. DAI and United Solutions co-founded Code Partners to help develop the technical skills of the local workforce and make Maryland a new center of innovation in the country.
Read MoreDAI, IntraHealth International, and our partners have launched Jalin—a five-year program that shifts USAID’s support as a development partner from funding the implementation of interventions to facilitating and catalyzing improvements in maternal and newborn health.
Read MoreThe Finance Innovation for Climate Change Fund (FICCF) recently piloted an insurance programme for sorghum farmers in Kenya.
Read MoreBrigit Helms, DAI’s Senior Principal Strategic Advisor for Strategy and Marketing, will co-chair the Development Finance Workgroup for the Washington Chapter of the Society for International Development (SID-Washington) for the next two years.
Read MoreJohn Yates, who leads DAI’s public financial management practice, was named to the board of directors of the International Consortium of Government Financial Management. Established in 1978, ICGFM promotes learning across government and multilateral institutions around public financial management (PFM) and domestic resource mobilization. DAI is a sustaining member of the ICGFM.
Read MoreHigher crop yields of up to 40 percent; reduced labor cost by 40 percent. Plus water savings and lower electric bills. Such are the benefits of water-saving technologies illustrated in a recent trial conducted by the Lebanon Water Project and Unifert, a commercial agribusiness in Lebanon.
Read MoreBritish Prime Minister Theresa May today visited the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) in Amman, Jordan, an initiative to stimulate increased women’s economic empowerment and agency.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce that it has been granted membership by the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN), the operational arm of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Read MoreChiantla, a municipality of 98,000 people in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, has won a “Best Use of Technology” award from the National Association of Municipalities for creating a municipal transparency mobile app designed to help citizens hold government accountable for delivering services.
Read MoreDAI was named 2017 Government Contractor of the Year at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards.
Read MoreThe economy of the West Bank and Gaza moved up 26 places in the World Bank Doing Business report for 2018, from 140th to 114th in the annual ranking of 190 economies. The West Bank and Gaza’s overall score—an average of 10 indicators that measure ease of doing business—increased from 54.88 to 58.68 on a scale of 1 to 100, the ninth-largest year-over-year improvement among the 190 economies measured.
Read MoreDAI celebrated Global Employee Ownership (GEO) Month in October. Events included the annual shareholders meeting, a GEO orientation for new employees, and socials in both our U.S. and U.K. offices.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that Doug McLean has been elected to the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce (MCCC) Board of Directors as a Strategic Partner, effective November 1.
Read MoreDAI hosted a number of events throughout the month of September to raise funds for the Linda Norgrove Foundation. The events raised a total of $6,800.
Read MoreDAI is delighted honor the two winners of this year’s David H. Gunning Award for Community Service. Ina Nasution, a pricing manager in the U.S. Business Development Unit, and Laure Lightbourne, a senior accountant.
Read MoreDAI’s environment team produced two technical chapters on agricultural resilience for guidelines recently adopted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The chapters—on integrated farming systems and rice-shrimp rotational farming—address factors critical to the livelihoods of millions of rural people across the ASEAN nations.
Read MoreDAI has brought on John Yates to lead a team of practitioners who deliver technical assistance around macroeconomic policy, domestic resource mobilization, budget planning and execution, tax and customs administration, central banking, trade and investment policy, and the business enabling environment.
Read MoreJean Gilson has been appointed to serve as the SID-International Governing Council Liaison to the Society for International Development, Washington, D.C. Chapter Board. In addition, Sarah Helmstadter has been elected as a Board Director at SID-Washington.
Read MoreDAI is the top-ranked firm globally in social sector consulting, according to the inaugural issue of WhoKnowsAbout, a “global competence ranking” of management consulting companies.
Read MoreDAI today announced the launch of the Sustainable Business Group, a unit designed to help private companies operate sustainably, responsibly, and profitably.
Read MoreOn June 28, Zambia signed $93.5 million worth of trade contracts with buyers from East and Southern Africa to export grains to countries suffering from a drought affecting more than 40 million people. The contracts—to sell more than 380,000 tons of white maize, soybeans, and other grains—are projected to provide food for 1.78 million families for six months.
Read MoreThe DaNa Facility and The Asia Foundation this week launched a three-year programme to improve business competitiveness in Myanmar. Central to the programme is the Myanmar Business Environment Index (Myanmar BEI), an initiative that will identify constraints to business, recommend improvements to the regulatory environment, and raise awareness of opportunities to reform the business environment.
Read MoreDAI is set to begin implementation of the Haiti Strategic Health Information System (HIS) Program. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the project team will consolidate and integrate Haiti’s at-present disconnected health information assets to create a comprehensive national system.
Read MoreDAI will work with Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd (EEPGL), an affiliate of ExxonMobil, to support EEPGL’s establishment of the Centre for Local Business Development in Georgetown, Guyana.
Read MoreThe Summer 2017 issue of DAI’s Developments newsletter is now available.
Read MoreThe Finance for Climate Change Innovation Fund (FICCF), operated by a DAI-led project, recently held a two-day conference in Nairobi to share achievements under the Climate Smart Agriculture pilot.
Read MoreDAI was recently granted Accredited Observer status by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a body set up in 2010 through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to address the climate adaptation needs and carbon emission reduction strategies of developing countries.
Read MoreDAI announces the acquisition of the HPI Group, which consists of Health Partners International (HPI) and WISE Development.
Read MoreEmployees of the Ghana Petroleum Commission, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, and the Ministry of Energy recently participated in a DAI-led training to manage and oversee the local content regulations that spell out how the country must interact with foreign private sector investors.
Read MoreMembers of DAI’s Board visited project sites in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday as part of their quarterly meeting, which they seek to hold once per year in a country where DAI works.
Read MoreA recent panel discussion, during the Smithsonian Institution’s Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, D.C., was supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Biodiversity Results and Integrated Development Gains Enhanced (BRIDGE) Project, implemented by DAI.
Read MoreDAI today announced the launch of the Center for Secure and Stable States, a center of excellence with a mission to raise the bar for development and security programming in fragile states.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce it has joined Investors’ Circle and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), global leaders in supporting small and growing businesses dedicated to improving their communities and the world.
Read MoreDAI Global Health has joined the Partners Forum of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), an alliance to promote vaccine development as part of the effort to prevent and respond to pandemic threats.
Read MoreIn 2016, DAI partnered with Kosmos Energy to launch the the Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) in Ghana. Now in its second year, KIC is supporting a group of 80 young entrepreneurs in developing innovative, technology-driven business concepts to address Ghana’s pressing development issues.
Read MoreDAI was recognized this week as a winner of the 2017 Innovations in Employee Ownership Award by the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing unbiased information and research on broad-based employee stock plans.
Read MoreDAI today announced that it is joining forces with Local Content Solutions Ltd. (LCS). Led by Dr. Michael Warner, the U.K.-based LCS is a global leader in providing consulting and software solutions to governments developing and overseeing local content regimes, and companies seeking to optimize their local workforce and local supply chains.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to introduce the Spring 2017 issue of our Developments newsletter, featuring 10 articles by our staff on DAI’s work in inclusive and municipal finance, stability, food security, and other areas.
Read MoreDAI presented three papers at the annual World Bank Land and Poverty Conference this week in Washington, D.C. The Land Tenure and Property Rights team shared key lessons learned on the use of public-private partnerships in land administration in Cabo Verde, the challenges of large-scale rural land certification and administration in Ethiopia, and the impact of infrastructure investments on land and livelihoods in Ghana.
Read MoreDAI today announced an investment in the mHealth service provider, MobileODT.
Read MoreA food security milestone was achieved this month with the signing of contracts to sell 279,000 metric tons of food grains from areas of surplus in East Africa to areas of need.
Read MoreThe American Apparel and Footwear Association has signed a partnership agreement with the East Africa Trade and Investment Hub. The partnership is projected to create up to 45,000 labor jobs in East Africa as well as jobs in the United States in trade, advertising, logistics, distribution, and retail.
Read MoreDAI officially unveiled its Brussels office last week with a series of events.
Read MoreWith the University College of London Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, DAI recently held a panel discussion on effective financial planning for disasters, titled “Risk Financing for the Developing World.”
Read MoreDAI Senior Vice President for Strategy Jean Gilson has been elected to a second term on the Society for International Development (SID) Governing Council, where she will serve until 2020.
Read MoreDAI held an official ceremony to hand over 502 land titles to villagers in Tanzania.
Read MoreDAI and THINKMD today announced a strategic partnership that will use DAI’s extensive international network to bring THINKMD’s digital health products to new markets. As part of this partnership, DAI led THINKMD’s latest financing round, joined by Fresh Tracks Capital and select private investors.
Read MoreJohn Maris, DAI’s Director of Project Management in Europe, has been elected Chair of British Expertise International’s (BEI) Development Aid Working Group.
Read MoreSpeaking at a burgeoning industrial park in Ethiopia, where clothing is being manufactured for brands such as Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, UK Development Secretary Priti Patel said that continued development assistance will help Ethiopia create jobs to sustain its rapidly growing native and refugee populations.
Read MoreA newly released article in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Changes details how rural communities in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam are building resilience with activities that merge climate science with the knowledge and expertise of local farmers.
Read MoreKenyan social enterprise Joyful Women Organization (JOYWO) recently announced an ambitious five-year strategic plan, which was developed with the support of the Financial Inclusion for Rural Microenterprises (FIRM) project, led by DAI and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Read MoreRepresentatives from nearly 200 countries recently gathered at the COP22 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Morocco and pledged to move forward on the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Read MoreA 2015 Kenya law that required 30-percent Kenyan ownership of businesses registered by foreign firms was recently repealed after successful advocacy by the business community with direct support from an economic growth program led by DAI.
Read MoreDAI Global Health celebrates globally the first annual One Health Day on November 3.
Read MoreDAI staff recently raised $6,882 for the Linda Norgrove Foundation during annual activities to observe the October 8, 2010, passing of the DAI staff member. The foundation gives grants to assist programs in Afghanistan that help women and children affected by the war.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that Susan Scribner has joined the firm as Vice President of Health Systems Solutions and Director of the Preparedness and Response project, a U.S. Agency for International Development program that facilitates pandemic preparedness across three regions and 16 countries.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that it has been named Prime Partner of the Year by the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce (MCCC). The award is designed “to recognize a prime contractor who demonstrates excellence in sub-contracting and support to small businesses to accelerate their success.”
Read MoreThe DAI Global Staff Conference launched Monday, October 3, convening more than 600 staff from DAI headquarters in Washington and London and from project locations all over the world. The weeklong conference in Washington welcomed an array of guests to help DAI staff celebrate successes, absorb lessons learned from across the company’s portfolio, and discuss ways to improve collaboration and deepen the impact of projects worldwide.
Read MoreOn October 4, at the DAI Global Staff Conference in Rockville, Maryland, DAI was delighted to announce the 2016 winners of the David H. Gunning Award for Community Service.
Read MoreIn May 2016, DAI and its partners announced four winners in the Innovation into Action Challenge, a competition to identify and support products and services that will help people in developing nations tackle social and economic challenges.
Read MoreTen years after DAI helped Serbia launch its National Association for Local Economic Development (NALED), NALED celebrated the milestone with a gala in Belgrade that attracted more than 600 political and business leaders, mayors, representatives of state institutions and international organizations, and diplomats.
Read MoreDAI Europe Ltd. and joint venture partner IMC Worldwide recently won top honour from the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) for supplier excellence in the category of “Fair Treatment of Subcontractors.”
Read MoreJim Tarrant, Chief of Party of the Biodiversity Results and Integrated Development Gains Enhanced (BRIDGE) project, was a featured panelist at a recent discussion on the need for integrated development approaches.
Read MoreA high-level team from the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA), led by Ato Desta Bezabh Gebrehiwet, Deputy Director General and Head of Domestic Tax Department, and facilitated by the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID)-funded Tax, Audit and Transparency (TAUT) programme led by DAI, visited revenue authorities in Rwanda and Tanzania during the past two weeks.
Read MoreDAI Europe has achieved the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 standards, establishing it as an operations leader in international development consulting and implementation.
Read MoreA DAI-led project that provides credit to hundreds of small businesses in Poland to improve energy efficiency was recently honored with the Financing Deal of the Year award at the 2016 Central and Eastern European (CEE) Clean Energy Awards.
Read MoreDAI recently hosted a lab session and stand on gender equality at the 10th annual European Development Days conference in Brussels.
Read MoreDAI’s Kanini Mutooni, director for investment at the East Africa Trade and Investment Hub, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Global Innovation Fund.
Read MoreLast night, DAI and its partners announced four winners of the Innovation into Action Challenge, a competition designed to find and support products and services that will help people in developing nations tackle social and economic development problems.
Read MoreNine organizations have been chosen as finalists for the DAI Innovation into Action Challenge, a global competition designed to find and support products and services that will help people in developing nations tackle social and economic development problems.
Read MoreDAI today announced that Bobby Jefferson has joined DAI as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DAI Global Health, effective May 1. A leader in the field of information and communications technology for development (ICT4D), Jefferson will focus on expanding DAI’s range of digital health services.
Read MoreDAI was yesterday named an award winner at the 17th annual conference of the Global Equity Organization (GEO), a professional membership organization dedicated to advancing understanding of employee share plans. DAI won in a new award category, Best Use of a Share Plan in a Private Company.
Read MoreColombia’s 2015 floods affected some 18,000 people. They destroyed homes and bridges, caused the suspension of water and sanitation services, and killed at least 83. The loss of life and millions of dollars in damage have re-emphasized the importance of confronting the effects of climate change in Colombia.
Read MoreDAI this week hosted Chloe Schwenke for a presentation in its Bethesda office. Schwenke is a leading voice in the efforts to integrate sexual minorities into the work of the international development community.
Read MoreOver the past decade, Jordan has been successful in achieving many of its reform goals in education, health, and economic privatization and liberalization. The government continues to introduce social protection mechanisms and reform subsidies, creating the conditions for public-private partnerships in infrastructure and improving its overall fiscal and budgetary health.
Read MoreSenior Trade and Investment Advisor Jim Winkler has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), a nonprofit, membership-based organization that promotes business and investment between the U.S. and African countries.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to have been selected to host a lab and stand at the annual European Development Days event in Brussels on June 15-16.
Read MoreDAI recently hosted a workshop in Kampala, Uganda, on the implementation of the country’s national land policy (NLP). The workshop presented the findings of a seven-week capacity assessment to support the implementation of the NLP.
Read MoreA key partner of the USAID Sapan Program in Thailand was presented the 2016 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award.
Read MoreDAI’s Land Tenure and Property Rights team presented four papers at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2016, on March 14–18, in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreThe response to the Innovation into Action Challenge, whose application window closed last week, has been rich, broad, and diverse. All told, the competition attracted entries from 296 innovators in 49 countries.
Read MoreKosmos Energy today launched the Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) in Accra, Ghana. With DAI’s assistance, Kosmos will take a market-driven approach to catalyze innovation and promote youth employment in the Ghanaian agricultural sector. DAI will provide capacity building support, personnel recruitment and management, stakeholder engagement, investment due diligence, and ongoing technical assistance to the initiative.
Read MoreDAI’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) team has launched Digital@DAI, a blog offering a behind-the-scenes look at the way digital technologies are contributing to global development work.
Read MoreDAI is deeply saddened to mark the passing of J. Peter Morrow, who led the dramatic turnaround of the Agricultural Bank of Mongolia (rebranded as Khan Bank) under a DAI project and went on to become one of Mongolia’s most respected business leaders and most honored foreign citizens. Morrow, who worked for DAI from 2000 to 2010, died on August 4 in Seattle. He was 68 years old.
Read MoreDAI has developed considerable expertise in the disciplines required to source and nurture good ideas and support the entrepreneurs and innovators who come up with them so they can bring their innovations to market. We are currently drawing on this body of experience in the Innovation into Action Challenge, for example, a contest that awards prizes, field visits, and tailored mentoring and partnering opportunities for initiatives with the potential to make a difference in developing and transitioning nations.
Read MoreDAI and three key partners announced the launch of the Innovation into Action Challenge, a new challenge designed to support innovations with the potential to make a difference in the lives of people in emerging and transitioning nations.
Read MoreA former businessman who took up farming to help Liberia become more self-sufficient at generating food was named Person of the Year by the Daily Observer, one of the country’s top newspapers.
Read MoreAn effort that began in 2011 recently came to fruition in Somaliland at the end of 2015 with the handover of a newly constructed facility to house the 145 employees who work for the region’s Ministry of Interior.
Read MoreThe Winter 2015 issue of DAI’s Developments newsletter is now available. Leading off, Vanna Kruy describes how he developed an application—now with 300,000 downloads and counting—that enables Cambodians to use smartphones more easily using their native Khmer alphabet.
Read MoreJordan continues to carry the burden of high unemployment rates among its young people—at 30 percent. The Fiscal Reform Project (FRP), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, supports young Jordanians, current students and recent graduates, through its Internship and Volunteer Program.
Read MoreThe Jordan Customs Department last week inaugurated its newly certified regional training center in Amman, a forum for customs staff from more than 10 Middle East countries to train, strengthen ties, and improve cross-border commerce and traffic. The center allows the Jordan Customs Department to conduct high-quality training for customs officers, partner government agencies, and private sector representatives in the region.
Read MoreDAI is delighted honor the two winners of this year’s David H. Gunning Award for Community Service. They are Caity Campos, who founded and runs a nonprofit for at-risk youth in South and Central America, and Katie Prowse, who works for an education charity in Zambia. Matt Woodhouse, a trustee and founder of Katapult Kilimanjaro, a U.K. charity that promotes sustainable development in Tanzania, was selected as the winner of an “honorable mention” prize.
Read MoreThe Organization for Youth Empowerment (OYE), a Honduran nongovernmental organization, was honored November 19 at a reception at the home of Joe Eldridge and DAI Board Member Maria Otero. Earlier this week, OYE was presented with the International Spotlight Award in a White House ceremony with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Read MoreDAI’s Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme in Ethiopia recently issued second-level land certificates to farmers for the first time at an event in Dejen Kebele, Emba Alaje Woreda, Tigray.
Read MoreDAI today announced the appointment of Christopher A. LeGrand to its global leadership team. LeGrand, the former CEO of Futures Group, will assume the role of President, DAI Global Health. In this newly created position, he will focus on advancing DAI’s global health portfolio, with an emphasis on emerging health markets and services.
Read MoreAs the rate of mobile penetration grows globally, youth-focused local programming will need to account for the nuanced preferences of this mobile-first generation.
Read MoreThe Fall 2015 issue of DAI’s Developments newsletter is now available online. Leading off, Mathilde Gaston-Mathé and Emmanuel Moyart describe how the African, Caribbean, and Pacific/European Union Microfinance Programme vitalized a network of practitioners and stakeholders—including more than 2,400 microfinance institutions, 3,000 staff, and 57 policy makers—across 32 countries.
Read MoreDAI recently hosted a number of events to raise funds for the Linda Norgrove Foundation, a grant-giving trust that provides funding for women, families, and children in Afghanistan, focusing on education, health, childcare, and scholarships to help Afghan women go to university.
Read MoreThe Philippines, a founding member of the international Open Government Partnership (OGP), has been recognized as one of the leading OGP participants. The OGP is an international organization promoting transparency, civic participation, the fight against corruption, and new technologies to make government more open, effective, and accountable.
Read MoreThe African Union Commission’s Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (AUC/DREA) recently signed a letter of agreement with Africa Lead, a top program of the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future initiative.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that Sir Malcolm Bruce has joined the firm in an advisory capacity, effective immediately. A distinguished public servant, Bruce brings to DAI more than 40 years of experience spanning government, private industry, and non-profit roles.
Read MoreThe U.K. Department of International Development (DFID)-funded Ilm Ideas—Pakistan Education Fund recently launched an interactive database of innovations designed to increase access for Pakistani children to quality education. Developed and implemented by Pakistani organizations and entrepreneurs, the edinnovators.com virtual platform connects these innovators with Pakistan’s wider education ecosystem.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce the sale of its Mexico City-based regional consulting practice, DAI Mexico, to the outstanding team of local managers and technical specialists who have run the operation since it was started in 2009.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to welcome Alueshima Utsaha as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Alueshima will work through September at DAI, focusing on Health governance and leadership in addition to, conducting desk research in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programming as well as how enhanced domestic resource mobilization could be used to bolster HIV programs in developing countries.
Read MoreThe Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) has launched an online trading platform that enables smallholder farmers to track their produce to warehouses and buyers via their mobile phones as well as interact directly with traders and bankers.
Read MoreJean Gilson, DAI’s Senior Vice President for Strategy and Information Technology, has been re-elected as Vice President for Programs at the Society for International Development, Washington, D.C., Chapter (SID-Washington).
Read MoreBill Grant, DAI’s Global Practice Leader for Market Systems Development, has published a new summary paper—”Market Systems Development: A Primer on Pro-Poor Programming”—coming out of DAI’s recent economic growth conference in London.
Read MoreDAI, the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI), and the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), have released an initial study of the electricity value chain in the Niger Delta.
Read MoreThe Summer 2015 issue of DAI’s Developments newsletter is now available online.
Read MoreDAI’s Juan Estrada-Valle, who has worked for more than 20 years in agriculture, value chain development, and market-based strategies in conflict-affected environments, was elected a board member of the Agribusiness Economics and Management Section of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
Read MoreDAI was recently selected as one of six holders of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s YouthPower Implementation Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contract (IDIQ). YouthPower is USAID’s platform for implementing and scaling up positive youth development programs globally.
Read MoreDAI recently hosted its second annual small business fair at DAI headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, where representatives from small development firms met with DAI staff members to establish connections and explore partnerships.
Read MoreThe DAI-led SERVIR Program Demand Activity brought together representatives from nearly 20 organizations that work at the nexus of global climate change and technology for an inaugural two-day forum around the topic of collaboration.
Read MoreTraditional arts and culture contribute to peace and stability in Somalia. In a country where youth struggle to find education and job opportunities, and avoid piracy, crime and extremism, arts and culture can provide safe outlets for peaceful self-expression and socialization.
Read MoreAs part of the Government of Jordan’s 2025 economic vision of fiscal reforms, it is adopting a General Financial Management Information System (GFMIS) to help it ensure consistent accounting of public funds. GFMIS is being implemented with the support of the Jordan Fiscal Reform Bridge Activity, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to announce that Caity Campos, an Associate on DAI’s Technical Services team, has been selected as a runner-up for the Society for International Development (SID) 2015 Andrew E. Rice Award.
Read MoreDAI Vice President for Technical Services Chuck Chopak has been chosen to co-chair the Society for International Development (SID) Washington, D.C., Chapter’s workgroup on food security and agriculture.
Read MoreDAI has contributed £2,000 to support pressing reconstruction needs in Nepal following the earthquakes and aftershocks that devastated the country in late April and early May.
Read MoreIn the aftermath of Nepal’s recent earthquakes, DAI staff have raised £1,000 to support a Kathmandu orphanage home to 12 children. The fundraising effort was led by London-based project manager Cari Wood, whose family has supported the Grace Home Orphanage since 2000.
Read MoreMore than 90 practitioners from around the world convened April 28–29 in London for a workshop titled “Pushing the Frontier: DAI’s Experience in Systemic Market Development for Inclusive Economic Growth.”
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Preparedness and Response (P&R) project brought together 30 representatives from 10 countries to learn what the project and its partners are doing to build national and regional One Health capacity to emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases.
Read MoreThe Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP) recently supported the Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica (TEC)’s participation in the annual International Space Apps Challenge, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Read MoreAs the rising youth population in Mongolia comes of age, the American University of Mongolia (AUM) can prepare them to contribute to their country’s economic development while helping businesses—fueled by mining-related growth—to meet their urgent need for a trained workforce.
Read MoreEconomic development programs that seek to help people lift themselves out of poverty are increasingly adopting systemic market development approaches. On April 28–29 in London, DAI will convene 80 top practitioners to explore this trend at a workshop titled ‘Pushing the Frontier: DAIs Experience in Systemic Market Development for Inclusive Economic Growth.’
Read MoreDAI is pleased to be hosting two labs at the annual European Development Days event in Brussels on June 3–4.
Read MoreThe Palestinian Business Forum-Britain recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Palestinian Market Development Programme (PMDP) to encourage the participation of the diaspora in the growth of Palestine’s economy.
Read MoreDAI’s Land Tenure and Property Rights team will make two presentations—one looking at the emerging trends and recent initiatives for improving land tenure in Africa and the second looking at how the Mozambican private sector, international investors, and donors are working to introduce more flexibility into land rights transfers—at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015, on March 23–27.
Read MoreThe Spring 2015 issue of DAI’s Developments online newsletter is now available.
Read MoreDAI’s UK offices recently held a fundraiser on behalf of Street Child, a charity focused primarily on achieving universal access to education. The charity came to the attention of a DAI-led and U.K. Department for International Development-funded programme, Access to Security and Justice Programme (ASJP), in Sierra Leone.
Read MoreFrom examining microbes under a microscope to pitching policy recommendations that could affect the sharing of biological resources within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ASEAN-U.S. Science and Technology Fellows Program gave Honglada “Lada” Thoetkiattikul the skills, experience, and connections to help her shift her career and apply her expertise to improve science-based policy-making in the region.
Read MoreMinisters, the U.S. ambassador, and local stakeholders commended the revival of Zimbabwe’s once-flourishing agriculture sector at an event marking the close of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Competitiveness Program (Zim-ACP).
Read MoreUnited States Acting Ambassador to Malawi Michael Gonzales and a team from the U.S. Embassy and Malawi Mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recently visited the Feed the Future Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (FtF-INVC) project.
Read MoreIn response to the reported release of Alan Gross, DAI President and CEO James Boomgard today issued the following statement.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has chosen DAI and three partners—Training Resources Group, The Futures Group, and the African Field Epidemiology Network—to implement a five-year program to help countries prepare for and respond to disease outbreaks.
Read MoreSince the passage of El Salvador’s Access to Public Information Law in 2011, DAI has assisted that government to promote fiscal transparency initiatives including a public-private sector agreement on fiscal transparency policy, adopting International Public Sector Accounting Standards, upgrading the Government Financial Management Information System, implementing an e-procurement system, and launching a revamped Fiscal Transparency Portal.
Read MoreOpening the pantries in the kitchens of DAI, employees have their pick of teas and coffees. Cups are always well stocked and organized. And cutlery is never in short supply. This is no accident—four students and their job coaches come to DAI’s Bethesda, Maryland, office twice a week for several hours to help stock the kitchens as part of a school-to-work job training program organized by the Ivymount School, a Washington, D.C., organization for young people with special needs.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce three winners of this year’s David H. Gunning Award for Community Service: Christel Milazzo, who runs a food pantry in Montgomery County, Maryland; and Alia Afshar-Gandhi and Jessica Stretz, who work with My Brother’s Keeper Orphanage in Liberia.
Read MoreThe European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has launched its second Polish Sustainable Energy Financing Facility (PolSEFF2), implemented by DAI, with €200 million that will be loaned via local banks to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Poland to finance investments to replace or upgrade heating, cooling, electric, and related systems, thereby reducing energy bills and decreasing carbon emissions.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that the Transforming Education in Pakistan (TEP) programme has won Innovation of the Year with its Alif Ailaan Data Platform.
Read MoreSonal Shah, founding Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, will be the featured speaker during DAI Innovation Week October 27–31.
Read MoreWhile improving local sanitation conditions is a difficult job with often little reward, such was not the case for Pak Mulyadi, a health worker from the Kedaung Barat Health Center in Tangerang District, Indonesia.
Read MoreDAI hosted three events last week to raise funds for the Linda Norgrove Foundation, a grant-giving trust that provides funding for women, families, and children in Afghanistan, focusing on education, health, childcare, and scholarships to help Afghan women go to university.
Read MoreThe European Commission (EC) recently published its Communication on Private Sector Development (PSD) under the Agenda for Change framework, which sets out the EU Development Policy.
Read MoreWhen the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Frontiers in Development Forum kicked off September 18 in Washington, D.C., a DAI team was there to help address the forum’s driving question—”How will we eradicate extreme poverty by 2030?”
Read MoreThe Summer 2014 issue of DAI’s Developments newsletter is now available.
Read MoreDAI’s Senior Vice President, U.S. Government Business Unit, Betsy Marcotte retired from the company this month after nine years of service.
Read MoreWith multibillion-dollar transportation projects under way, including for a railway connecting Mombasa to Nairobi and eventually Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Southern Sudan, Kenya’s rapid development is setting the pace for many other African countries.
Read MoreSome seven months after the combination of DAI and HTSPE Ltd., DAI today announced that the HTSPE brand will be retired and the firm will begin doing business as DAI, effective July 31, 2014.
Read MoreCalling it their spiritual obligation to “safeguard the integrity of creation,” the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) is asking church members to take action to prevent global warming and mitigate the effects of climate change.
Read MoreLast year, two DAI employees received the company’s inaugural David H. Gunning Award for Community Service. Each awardee received $5,000 for donation to their respective social service organizations.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to welcome Zainab Ferrah Conteh as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Zainab will work through September with DAI’s Africa Region team.
Read MoreU.S. Ambassador David Hale and the Lebanese Minister of Tourism Michel Pharaon recently launched “Travel Lebanon” to promote domestic tourism in Lebanon.
Read MoreDAI recently held its first small business fair, where small U.S.-based firms met with DAI staff members in its Bethesda, Maryland, headquarters to establish connections and potential partnerships.
Read MoreDAI today announced that Christopher Lockett, a 10-year veteran of HTSPE Ltd., has been appointed Managing Director of DAI Europe and Senior Vice President of DAI.
Read MoreSince 2011, the Syrian conflict has killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed countless homes and businesses, forcing Syrians by the thousands to seek refuge in the region. Jordan generously opened its borders to these refugees, who settled in camps established by the United Nations and in northern cities such as Irbid, Ramtha, and Mafraq, resulting in a rapid, nearly 10 percent increase in the population.
Read MoreThe Government of Somaliland recently launched its first pilot wind farm, an initiative to power the Hargeisa International Airport, sending a clear signal that Somaliland has abundant renewable energy resources.
Read MoreJean Gilson, DAI’s Senior Vice President for Strategy and Information Technology, has been appointed to serve as Vice President on the Executive Committee of the Society for International Development, the umbrella group of which SID-Washington is a leading member.
Read MoreFor private sector firms, filling market gaps in developing nations can be good business. Over the past couple of decades, accordingly, private resource flows to developing nations have risen exponentially, far outpacing official development assistance.
Read MoreBNP Paribas Bank Polska—a partner bank of the DAI-implemented Polish Sustainable Energy Financing Facility (PolSEFF) program—won the EBRD 2014 Sustainability Energy and Climate Change Award for achievements in supporting small and medium enterprises in their initiatives to increase energy efficiency and apply energy from renewable sources.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce the appointment of [Elizabeth (Betsey) Nelson]/who-we-are/board/elizabeth-nelson() as Chair of DAI’s Board of Directors. She succeeds outgoing chair Jim Boomgard, DAI’s President and Chief Executive Officer, who had led the Board on an interim basis since the retirement of longtime chair David Gunning in May 2013.
Read MoreU.S. Ambassador Robert O. Blake Jr. accompanied by the Mayor of Surakarta, Indonesia, recently inaugurated new water supply and sanitation facilities in the neighborhood of Semanggi.
Read MoreDAI will join more than 600 development professionals on May 20 at the Society for International Development (SID)-Washington 2014 Annual Conference. The event will feature a keynote address by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah.
Read MoreVenture capitalist Victor Hwang, CEO of T2 Venture Creation and author of The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley, called for a new paradigm to promote development innovation at a May 7 meeting of the Society for International Development Private Sector Working Group in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreLast month, nearly 1,000 members of the land rights community gathered at the 15th annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty to present field-based research, announce new initiatives, and develop partnerships. According to the World Bank, the conference aims to “foster dialogue and the sharing of best practices on the diversity of reforms, approaches, and experiences that are being implemented in the land sector around the world.”
Read MoreAccording to Dr. Steven Lawry, DAI’s Global Practice Lead for Land Tenure and Property Rights, customary land tenure rights provide poor farmers in Africa access to land as a social right.
Read MoreRwanda Land Tenure Regularisation (LTR), an HTSPE-led project to increase land rights, stability, and economic opportunity, was named Outstanding International Development Project (non-physical) 2014 by the London-based trade organization British Expertise.
Read MoreThe Winter 2013-2014 issue of DAI’s Developments newsletter is now available.
Read MoreAn HTSPE-led project is one of three shortlisted by the London-based trade organization British Expertise for Outstanding International Development Project 2014.
Read MoreEast Java’s dwindling supply of raw water is being replenished thanks to an initiative launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and two key partners in Indonesia’s private and civil society sectors.
Read MoreDAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the United States’ Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA). The committee consists of leaders in the international development community who advise the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other U.S. Government agencies on development policy.
Read MoreHTSPE Ltd. has agreed to join forces with DAI, a global development company with corporate headquarters in London and Washington and project operations in 70 countries worldwide.
Read MoreU.K. Department of International Development (DFID) Permanent Secretary Mark Lowcock recently met with women entrepreneurs who are part of a DFID-funded project to boost lending to small and women-owned firms in Ethiopia.
Read MoreTwo DAI employees will receive the company’s inaugural David H. Gunning Award for Community Service in 2013. Mubarak Abdi and Vikki Groves will each receive $5,000 for donation to their respective social service organizations—the Somaliland National Youth Organization (SONYO) and Kings World Trust for Children.
Read MoreOn November 7, typhoon Haiyan tore through the central Philippines. The latest in a series of high-profile disasters and increasingly severe weather events, Haiyan has drawn relief and development practitioners’ attention once again to the concept of resilience.
Read MoreNearly 170 members of the global development community came together this week at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., for the inaugural Council of International Development Companies (CIDC) Conference.
Read MoreIlm Ideas Communications Specialist Saad Hamid was one of 26 social entrepreneurs selected globally to present at the inaugural Telenor Youth Summit on December 9–11 in Oslo, Norway.
Read MoreAt the DAI-hosted lab at this year’s European Development Days, participants were challenged to come up with creative ways of economically empowering women in developing countries.
Read MoreOn September 21, residents in Northern Sri Lanka cast their ballots as part of an historic event—the first-ever Northern Provincial Council Elections. Election Day turnout was extremely high at 68 percent, representing a dramatic increase from previous years despite a very tense electoral environment.
Read MoreThe [Jordan Competitiveness Program (JCP)]/our-work/projects/jordan-competitiveness-program-jcp() has officially launched—with ambitious goals of creating some 40,000 jobs over the next five years and attracting foreign investment to the Kingdom.
Read MoreThe government of Honduras has passed laws that will allow the private sector to invest in infrastructure and visitor services in the country’s underfunded national parks, enabling the development of tourism concessions in these spectacular but unfrequented protected natural areas.
Read MoreJanet Nkubana, the co-founder of Rwanda-based Gahaya Links, will be one of four speakers at the upcoming European Development Days conference, November 26–27. She will be part of a DAI-sponsored innovation lab addressing women’s economic empowerment called “Harnessing public private partnerships to connect women’s businesses to international supply chains.”
Read MoreMozambique, which has historically struggled with the process of issuing construction permits, jumped 46 places on the construction permit indicator in the recently released World Bank Doing Business 2014 report.
Read MoreThe Community Association of Drinking Water and Sanitation Users in the Lamongan District of Indonesia was chosen as one of 12 winners of the Drinking Water and Environmental Health Award from the National Working Group on Drinking Water and Sanitation.
Read MoreThe Nyungwe Nziza (“Beautiful Nyungwe”) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), was named one of the winners of the Society of American Travel Writers’ (SATW) Phoenix Awards at SATW’s annual convention in Biloxi, Mississippi, this month.
Read MoreThe transition from primary school to middle school is a difficult one for children all across the world. It is especially difficult if you happen to be born in rural Sindh province in Pakistan.
Read MoreThe Summer 2013 issue of DAI’s newsletter, Developments, is now available online.
Read MoreJean Gilson, DAI’s Senior Vice President for Strategy and Information Technology, has been re-elected as Chair for Chapter Affairs at the Society for International Development, Washington, D.C., Chapter (SID-Washington).
Read MoreWith the focus shifting from aid commitments to aid impact, the question in the global development community is: how can we maximize our results by utilizing every tool, partner, and technology available?
Read MorePlum production in Moldova has always been important to the country’s economy, pulling in high yields and profits, domestically and internationally.
Read MoreThe DAI-led Food and Enterprise Development Program (FED) in Liberia, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), recently hosted U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, and U.S. Ambassador to Liberia Deborah Malac on a visit to the New Generational Women farm near Monrovia.
Read MoreUniversity students from Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria recently came together for 10 days of training on geospatial technology, through a fellowship program supported by MyCOE/SERVIR, a joint initiative between My Community Our Earth (MyCOE) and the SERVIR satellite-based Earth observation platform of data and imagery.
Read MoreDAI is pleased to have been selected to host a lab at the annual European Development Days event, held in Brussels on November 26-27. EUDevDays, as it is known, is Europe’s premier forum on development cooperation between international organizations, and business, political, academic, and civil society leaders.
Read More“Are you going to have a cookie-cutter solution, or are you going to take the time to consider a range of options and design something that has impact?” asked DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard, speaking to a room of extractive industry executives operating in Southern Africa.
Read MoreThe DAI-led [Economic Strengthening for Households Affected by AIDS (IMARISHA)][1] project—in partnership with four other organizations—recently hosted the Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato Harvest Event. The event brought together the expertise of programs supported by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. government’s Feed the Future Agriculture Initiative, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Read MoreWorld-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall recently visited the Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda as part of an ongoing collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Strengthening Sustainable Ecotourism in and around Nyungwe National Park (SSENNP) project.
Read MoreThe International Symposium on Land Cover Mapping for the African Continent, hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), with support from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Tsinghua University, and the joint USAID/NASA SERVIR program recently took place in Nairobi, Kenya.
Read MoreClaudia Manning, Managing Director of DAI’s Johannesburg office, spoke to delegates this week at the South African Supplier Diversity Council (SASDC) Synergy Conference about challenges facing the country, particularly about the various instruments that could be used by government and the private sector to ameliorate unemployment. The SASDC is modeled on the successful U.S. National Minority Supplier Development Council.
Read MoreDAI, in partnership with the Carnegie Endowment, hosted a workshop in London convening policymakers, practitioners, and academics to discuss “Making Participation Work for Development.
Read MoreDr. Chuck Chopak, DAI’s Regional Managing Director for the Africa region and president of the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD), opened the association’s 49th annual conference by highlighting the increased significance of AIARD as a group that brings together a diversity of stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and the private sector to build consensus and understanding around agricultural development.
Read MoreJerry Martin, DAI’s Global Practice Leader for One Health and Infectious Disease, and [Robert Salerno][2], DAI’s Specialist in Health, Nutrition, and Livelihoods, each presented papers on the linkages between agriculture and health at the 3rd Annual Leverhulme Center for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) conference “Developing methods in agriculture and health research,” on June 13–14.
Read MoreThe DAI-led Food and Enterprise Development (FED) project in Liberia earlier this month facilitated a trade fair and conference focusing on the private sector—the first time a conference of its kind has ever been held in the country.
Read MoreDevelopment Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) and Judy Gross today announced the settlement of the lawsuit brought by Judy and Alan Gross against DAI in the wake of Alan Gross’s imprisonment by Cuban authorities in December 2009 for his work for DAI to implement the U.S. Government’s Cuba Program.
Read MoreDAI, in association with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is hosting a workshop convening policymakers, practitioners, and academics to explore the topic, “From Critique to Construction: Next Steps in Making Participation Work for Development,” in London on May 30 at Central Westminster Hall.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to welcome its two newest members of the Board of Directors: Maria Otero and Gail Steinel.
Read MoreIn sheer numbers, the second NASA International Space Apps Challenge April 20-21 made a big splash. More than 9,000 people worldwide—four times as many as last year—dove into the 48-hour hackathon to confront questions of space exploration and social need, churning out some 600 potential solutions.
Read MoreSpace enthusiasts, tech wizards, and citizen scientists the world over are prepping for the second International Space Apps Challenge, a 48-hour hackathon led by NASA April 20-21. Their mission: use images from space, open-source data, and earthly know-how to make apps that address climate change and improve life on earth—and beyond.
Read MoreThere is no doubting the growth in popularity of mobile banking. According to Juniper Research, the market for mobile payments is expected to reach more than $600 billion (£393bn) globally this year—double the figure of February 2011.
Read MoreWhen the United Kingdom took over the presidency of the G8, it announced it would focus on open economies, open governments, and open societies. It is leading by example with its efforts to make its own aid flows traceable from source to destination.
Read MoreThe Spring 2013 issue of Developments is now available.
Read MoreTeaching teens to embrace taxes is a daunting task, but a DAI-led project in El Salvador is supporting the government to make tax compliance a little more palatable through a new strategy called Expresate.
Read MoreDAI’s Vice President of Solutions Jim Winkler on March 14 was elected to the Board of Directors of the newly established American University of Mongolia (AUM).
Read MoreWith millions of children out of school and those in school failing to read and write at grade level, Pakistan will not only fall short of its Millennium Development Goals—it is gripped by an education emergency that will cripple the country’s economy, stymie its growth, and threaten its stability.
Read MoreMore than 500 business and government leaders from Vietnam’s 63 cities and provinces gathered March 14 in Hanoi for the launch of the 2012 Provincial Competiveness Index (PCI).
Read MoreDAI CEO Jim Boomgard hosted a business association luncheon March 12 honoring His Excellency Ali Zeidan, Prime Minister of Libya, who was in Washington, D.C., for his first official visit.
Read MoreRobert Salerno, DAI’s specialist in Health, Nutrition, and Livelihoods, and Daniel Lazier, Livelihoods Manager on the Economic Strengthening for Households Affected by AIDS (IMARISHA) Project in Tanzania, were featured speakers on a panel about savings groups with HIV-affected communities at the 2013 Savings Group Conference “Expanding Financial Inclusion and Development,” held March 4–5.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that Michael Jakobowski has joined the firm as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Read MoreCommunities that come together and work toward similar goals for the good of all is one way to deliver peace and stability in conflict-riddled areas.
Read MoreThe majority of the world’s poor have no access to formal financial services. They must rely on friends and family to help them in hard times, or the proverbial mattress to save for a rainy day or to ensure they have enough to pay school fees.
Read MoreThe DAI-led FRAMEweb online community celebrates its 10th year this month. FRAMEweb, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), connects natural resource management (NRM) practitioners and local champions, shares the latest tools and resources, and facilitates critical conversations relevant to NRM work. In its 10th year, collaboration around the community is steadily growing, with more than 2,750 members who live and work in 120 countries.
Read MoreSomaliland has its first-ever draft of an electrical energy law, a major step toward increased legitimacy for the autonomous region of Somalia.
Read MoreDAI today announced that it has become a corporate founder of the American University of Mongolia (AUM), joining Newcom LLC, Rio Tinto PLC, and the General Electric Foundation in supporting the university’s development.
Read MoreIn recent years tens of thousands of people have died—including more than 18,000 in the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic—of disease born from the interaction of people, animals, and ecosystems.
Read MoreWhile working as a regional advisor on a DAI project in Northern Haiti, Nick Hobgood spent much of his personal time scuba diving and taking photos of the marine species he saw along the coast. The photos he collected from 2007 to 2010 have been published in a coffee table book called “Haiti From Below.”
Read MoreIn a vote of confidence for the country’s Sector for Emergency Management, the Serbian government has moved to increase its roster of professional firefighters and rescue workers from 3,000 to 3,500.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce the addition of Helen Mealins as Director, International, Bilateral Strategy and External Partnering.
Read MoreCoffee from Burundi is now far more visible on world markets after an international competition was held in the country.
Read MoreThis week’s Gala Dinner for the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society for International Development (SID-Washington) honored Maria Otero, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights at the U.S. Department of State.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development-funded ProParque project has begun promoting alternative energy in Honduras by working with vocational education centers, entrepreneurs, and microenterprises all located near 10 of the country’s national parks.
Read MoreThe Polish Sustainable Energy Financing Facility (PolSEFF), implemented by DAI and funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), recently held its first awards ceremony to recognize Polish small and medium enterprises’ achievements in raising energy efficiency standards.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to be a founding sponsor of a new professional network launched this week by The Guardian to complement its global development website.
Read MoreSerbian national television this month profiled a pair of business clusters launched in economically depressed regions of Serbia that are now thriving and creating hundreds of jobs.
Read MoreWorld AIDS Day is held every December 1 and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate people who have died. It was first was held in 1988.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Developing (USAID) is launching development labs at seven universities to harness their creative energy and generate ideas.
Read MoreDAI’s Senior Vice President for Strategy and Marketing Jean Gilson wrote about employee ownership as a business model in the September 14–20 edition of the Washington Business Journal.
Read MoreIn celebration of World Food Day, held every year on October 16, in commemoration of the founding of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945, the Food and Enterprise Development (FED) project is collaborating with ChildArt Liberia, a local nongovernmental organization, in a competition called “Agricultural Cooperatives—Key to Feeding the World.”
Read MoreLuckshmi Sivalingam—a development practitioner with 10 years of professional experience in project design, development, and management in South and Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East—has been named Practitioner of the Year by the SEEP Network, a global membership network of more than 130 international organizations dedicated to alleviating poverty by promoting inclusive markets and financial systems.
Read MoreThe U.S. Embassy and the city of Valenzuela, Philippines, have partnered to promote the use of mobile money for payment of government services.
Read MoreTo commemorate the Tamil holiday of Thai Pongal and celebrate diversity within a country too often divided along ethnic and religious lines, the [Reintegration and Stabilization in the East and North (RISEN)][1] project recently brought together youth from the north and south of Sri Lanka to promote reconciliation and advocate for the establishment of a youth network.
Read MoreJohannesburg, South Africa—Effective November 14th, 2012, ECI_Africa_ Consulting (Pty) Ltd will do business under the name of its majority owner, DAI.
Read MoreThe Nyungwe Nziza project in Rwanda has been named winner of the prestigious British Guild of Travel Writers’ (BGTW) Best Overseas and Best Global Project Awards. At the recent annual awards dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London, Guild Chair Roger Bray said: “Nyungwe Nziza is a model tourism project for developing countries.”
Read MoreRwanda’s Nyungwe National Park has been nominated by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) to receive an award for “Best Overseas Project/Attraction.”
Read MoreThe U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), also known as UKaid, has launched a second round of grants under the [Ilm Ideas Program][1].
Read MoreOfficials from ministries and business gathered October 16 in Ramallah to salute Said Abu Hijleh, the outgoing managing director of DAI Palestine whose work opened doors for development in the West Bank and Gaza, boosted businesses, and created jobs, among other accomplishments.
Read MoreJob losses during the worldwide economic slump continue to bedevil policy makers everywhere. Dismal employment prospects, especially for young people, have exacerbated social conflicts. In emerging economies, the global crisis has further complicated the challenge of integrating the informal sector.
Read MoreDevelopment practitioners ignore governance at their peril. This admonition is the main takeaway of the latest issue of DAI’s journal Developing Alternatives, which examines the theme of political economy analysis (PEA) and its application to development policy and practice.
Read MoreDAI employee Linda Norgrove was kidnapped September 26, 2010, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, and died October 8 during a rescue attempt by U.S. forces. Norgrove was working on the [Incentives Driving Economic Alternatives for the North, East, and West][1] Program.
Read MoreThe Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta (PIND) recently received a 2012 Delta Achievers’ Merit Award (NDAMA) for its work on partnerships that promote inclusive economic growth.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that Francois Marchand has joined the global development firm to lead Latin America and Caribbean work, based out of our Mexico City office.
Read MoreDAI President and CEO Dr. James Boomgard, currently in Libya, today issued the following statement from Tripoli:
Read MoreLara Goldmark, DAI’s Technical Area Manager for Private Sector Development, and Marwan Juma, a DAI Board Member and former chairman of the Young Arab Leaders Organization, are speaking on a panel about innovative funding mechanisms to support youth entrepreneurs on the opening day of the 2012 Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference, September 11-13, at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreThirty-two groups representing 16 countries were nominated for innovation grants Sept. 7 by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the funds to be invested in programs that increase literacy.
Read MoreElizabeth Sullivan, a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist on DAI’s Trans-Sahara Security Symposium (TSS) project, was named by the Diplomatic Courier magazine and the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) association as one of the top 99 leaders under the age of 33 working in international affairs.
Read MoreU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week praised a community-managed dairy enterprise in Malawi that is helping small farmers to increase their incomes and communities to live more nutritiously.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that we are collaborating with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to use earth observations from space to help forecast and adapt to the effects of climate change.
Read MoreDAI’s use of technology in global development field work—and in back-office functions—has been profiled in an in-depth article in Oracle’s quarterly publication.
Read MoreDAI’s Health Sector helped lead discussions at this year’s International AIDS Conference, AIDS2012, in Washington, D.C. The weeklong event, July 22-27, attracted an estimated 25,000 people who are joined in the ongoing battle against AIDS.
Read MoreDAI has begun its first major initiative under the Food and Enterprise Development (FED) Program, part of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Feed the Future Initiative.
Read MoreThe Summer 2012 issue of Developments is now available.
Read MoreBangladesh’s Right to Information Law, enacted in 2009, is slowly taking root in outlying districts and benefiting residents, the country’s chief information commissioner said last week during a study tour in the Washington, D.C., area.
Read MoreDAI Development Specialist Shannon Sarbo recently presented on poverty assessments at Abt Associates’ annual Chiefs of Party Conference. The conference brought together more than 170 long-term field staff from Abt’s global portfolio to share lessons learned on issues critical to the development community, including effective change management, high-impact presentations, and improving consulting skills for better outcomes.
Read MoreThe unprecedented public-private partnership between the International Finance Corporation (IFC), DAI, and Palestinian olive oil producers culminated in the successful launch June 17 of a high-end flavorful olive oil called DASKARA, on the sidelines of the Summer Fancy Food Show in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreTwo DAI projects will be highlighted at the U.S. Agency for International Develoment (USAID)’s Local Capacity Development Summit, June 18-19.
Read MoreToday 1.4 billion people lack access to clean energy. The impact of this limited energy access is particularly pronounced in the agricultural sectors of developing countries, which often have extremely low rural electrification rates. The lack of modern energy services affects every aspect of the agricultural value chain, from irrigation and harvesting to processing and storage.
Read MoreKyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk Kul is a natural wonder: one of the largest and deepest lakes in the world, fed by natural mineral springs and surrounded by snow-capped mountains, it could be a premium destination for the world’s tourists.
Read MoreIn partnership with the Bretton Woods Committee, DAI co-hosted a webinar yesterday on the use of mobile technologies in development, specifically within the World Bank’s work.
Read MoreDAI’s Claudia Manning has written a column on effective business supplier development for South Africa’s Business Day, a leading national newspaper.
Read MoreAs the operator of one of the larger dairy farms in Serbia, Lazar Dairy has had a significant problem dealing with the manure produced by the cows on the farm. Previously, Lazar pumped the manure into a large lagoon, where the solid materials settled and the remaining liquid was used to fertilize crops.
Read MoreDAI’s Eunice Heredia-Ortiz and three coauthors were recently honored for their paper, “Rethinking the Political Economy of Decentralization: How Democracy and Political Parties Shape the Provision of Local Public Goods.”
Read MoreThe DAI-led Facility for New Market Development project (FNMD) in Palestine came to a close this week with numerous successes to its credit. Since 2008, the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID)-funded program has assisted 600 Palestinian companies in a wide range of sectors, generating more than $100 million in attributable sales and exports, and providing 3,400 new permanent jobs to unemployed Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Read MoreDAI, which has worked in Indonesia for more than 30 years, hosted 15 junior members of that country’s Ministry of Finance this week for a discussion at DAI headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.
Read MoreMaryland firms manage approximately $2.3 billion, or 10.4 percent, of the foreign assistance budget of the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—with DAI serving as the state’s leading development firm operating in 60 countries.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce it has joined an alliance working with Walmart to evaluate the retailer’s initiative to empower women working in its factories in developing countries.
Read MoreDAI celebrated the successes of its five-year water conservation program, which ended last week in Jordan, with a ceremony attended by nearly 200 people.
Read MoreDr. Eduardo Fernandez, Colombia’s former vice minister of finance and national budget director, recently joined DAI as managing director for governance in the Mexico office.
Read MoreDAI is delighted to announce that technology executive and champion Marwan Juma of Jordan has accepted an invitation to join DAI’s Board of Directors.
Read MoreFor more than 20 years, efforts to end civil conflict and lawlessness in southern and central Somalia have been unsuccessful—yet the northern autonomous region of Somaliland enjoys relative peace and stability.
Read MoreA milestone was achieved November 22 in conflict-plagued eastern Sri Lanka when a recently built, three-ward medical complex was handed over to local district authorities.
Read MoreDAI caps off its 2011 Community Engagement Program with a $10,000 grant to OYE Honduras, a community-based, youth-led organization that develops the leadership and capacity of at-risk Honduran youth.
Read MoreGlobal donors urged innovators worldwide last week to compete for $7.5 million in newly available funding by submitting ideas to increase literacy among the world’s neediest children. Funding applications are due January 31.
Read MoreDAI was one of five winners of an Excellence in Evaluation award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Read MoreDAI has been named a finalist in the 2012 Helios HR Apollo Awards, in the largest company category alongside Booz Allen Hamilton, Deltek, Ogilvy Washington, SRA International, Inc., and Washington Gas.
Read MoreDAI staff made presentations last week to military and civilian members of the Agribusiness Industry Study Group from the National Defense University. The group visited DAI headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, on February 29 to receive training in food security and competitiveness, from bioterrorism and economic development perspectives, targeting Asia and the Pacific.
Read MoreTechnology and innovation ought to shape the work being done in developing countries but are not being sourced or scaled in ways that meet key development challenges, according to DAI’s Kristi Ragan, Chief of Party for USAID’s Grand Challenges for Development.
Read MoreThe fall/winter issue of Developments is now available.
Read MoreDAI has been named a winner in the World Trade Center Institute’s 16th Annual Maryland International Business Leadership Award program. Represented by CEO Jim Boomgard, DAI was one of seven winners chosen from a pool of 80 independently nominated companies from the state. Winning companies were selected based on their success in international business, growth in revenue and employment, and community involvement.
Read MoreA recently released 15-minute documentary describes how a DAI-led project in the Philippines made it possible for water providers to expand and upgrade their systems, and deliver water services to another 1.8 million people.
Read MoreOn November 18, The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the nonprofit organization World Vision will launch All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development, with support from the DAI-implemented Grand Challenges for Development project.
Read MoreKenyan farmers who own just a few cows need to get the most from these precious assets. More than 1,300 farmers throughout Kenya are now receiving text messages each week with guidance to help them breed, feed, and care for their cows and maximize their health and value.
Read MoreDAI is following the lead of the Linda Norgrove Foundation by organizing events to mark the first anniversary of our late colleague’s death and raise money for the foundation.
Read MoreDAI Jordan was presented with a plaque September 18 by Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya in recognition of DAI’s support of the 4th Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition.
Read MoreLarge numbers of unemployed young people can lead to blight, social unrest, or worse—sometimes much worse. Donors and others hoping to help put young men and women to work in developing nations need to consider wide-ranging steps for job growth to take root, according to Lara Goldmark, DAI’s Technical Area Manager for Private Sector Development.
Read MoreIn response to the news that Cuba’s Supreme Court has upheld a 15-year prison sentence imposed on DAI subcontractor Alan Gross for committing “acts against the integrity and independence of the state,” DAI President and Chief Executive Officer James Boomgard issued the following statement.
Read MoreA recent story in the Developments newsletter struck a chord throughout DAI and beyond.
Read MoreBethesda, Maryland—DAI has been named a Devex Top 40 Development Innovator, one of only 10 consulting firms so honored globally. The award was based on a poll of 100,000 Devex members, who comprise the world’s largest network of aid and international development professionals.
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