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Empowering Youth to Communicate with Community Leaders and Policymakers

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As part of the USAID-funded YouthPower/Jordan project, Kaizen supported project monitoring, evaluation, and learning and fostered greater communication between youth, community leaders, and policymakers. With much of its population under the age of 30, Jordan’s economic stability and security depends on the active participation of its youth. However, youth in Jordan face several challenges, including […]

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Supporting the Water and Energy for Food Program

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Kaizen provided senior management to support the Water and Energy for Food program. Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) was a second-generation “grand challenge ” that continued the partnerships of Securing Water for Food (implemented by Kaizen) and Powering Agriculture (implemented by Tetra Tech, Inc.), joint international initiatives of the German Federal Ministry of Economic

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Providing Technical and Professional Support to USAID’s Global Development Lab

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Kaizen collaborated with USAID’s Global Development Lab on an initiative to combat the global health crisis and put into place safeguards to prepare countries to better respond to future health crises. The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa was the “largest, most severe, and most complex Ebola epidemic” in history, according to

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Advancing Open Innovation on Development Programs

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Kaizen supported open innovation and grand challenges throughout USAID by identifying innovators, assessing their business models, facilitating their activities, and accelerating their impact. Catalyst is an adaptable platform that enables the Global Development Lab’s Center for Development Innovation to support USAID in empowering host countries to achieve development impacts quickly and efficiently. Working as an

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Supporting Organizational Development in Uganda

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Kaizen enhanced the organizational development and health of the USAID/Uganda Mission. The USAID Organizational Development Activity (ODA) in Uganda was designed to strengthen USAID/Uganda’s internal relationships, systems, capacities, practices, and culture to improve organizational performance that contributes to development advancements for the Ugandan people. To reinforce USAID/Uganda’s progress toward this goal, Kaizen accelerated progress toward

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Strengthening Abilities to Implement Development and Emergency Activities

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Kaizen led capacity strengthening and peer-to-peer learning and provided thought leadership to support the USAID activity’s effort to enhance food and nutrition security among Food for Peace-targeted populations. The Implementer-led Design, Evidence, Analysis, and Learning (IDEAL) activity, funded by USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP), addressed the gap between the ambitions and the capacities

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Strengthening Regional Intergovernmental Organization Systems in East Africa

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Kaizen developed continuous capacity and performance improvements in intergovernmental organizations to support economic growth, stability, and integration in East Africa. USAID has long been a steady and reliable partner in Africa’s economic integration efforts. For nearly two decades, the Agency has provided support to regional intergovernmental organizations (RIGOs), including the Common Market for Eastern and

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Supporting Niger’s Ministries to Advance Stabilization and Peacebuilding Efforts

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Across Niger’s most insecure regions, Kaizen created critical linkages between local and national leaders to build public confidence in the government. The Sahel region faces continuous insecurity with threats from violent extremist organizations rising and Sahelian states struggling to maintain territorial integrity. The United Nations estimated that more than 15 million people are displaced across

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Supporting Stabilization Efforts in Middle East and North Africa Countries

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Across the Middle East and North Africa, Kaizen is implementing a flexible, quick-response mechanism through technical assistance and operational support. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are operating in complex political and economic environments. In countries transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy, from violent conflict to peace, or other pivotal political and

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Supporting Organizational Development in Ethiopia

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Kaizen supported USAID Missions in Ethiopia and Djibouti to advance and improve organizational development. Following years of organizational challenges, USAID Missions in Ethiopia and Djibouti needed cutting-edge, research-, and evidence-based approaches to organizational development (OD) that set teams up for success. Additionally, USAID sought to revitalize a shared, pervasive organizational ethos that successfully directs individual

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