Areas of Focus
- Enterprise Development:
- Assisting stakeholders along the entire value chain strengthen their private sector linkages and achieve long-term economic growth. We help local entrepreneurs, businesses, associations and cooperatives, from micro-enterprises to large-scale operations, in manufacturing, agribusiness, information and communication technology, tourism, and the service industry with capacity building to improve their ability to provide services on a sustainable basis.
- Financial Services:
- Strengthening and reforming central, commercial and investment banking systems, capital markets, corporate governance, and pension and insurance systems. We support access to finance though microfinance institutions and facilitate the flow of socially-responsible impact capital.
- Economic Governance:
- Strengthening developing countries’ enabling environments to support the public and private sectors through training and technical assistance programs at both local and national levels. Whether engaging ministries, central banks, municipal leaders, or community organizations, we believe in empowerment and civic engagement as powerful drivers of sustainable economic growth.
- Volunteerism:
- Harnessing the collective expertise and experience of a network of over 65,000 skilled professional advisors that serve in a variety of assignments around the world. These advisors are incorporated into long- and short-term technical assistance projects alongside consultants and in-country staff to support small businesses, educational institutions, NGOs, advocacy organizations, associations, local governments, and communities. We build upon a long history of American volunteerism as a way of fostering global citizenship. This is a central part of nearly all VEGA programs.
