Cross-cutting Themes
- Value Chains:
- Examining opportunities and constraints facing key businesses in an industry and the critical factors affecting their competitiveness. We use a participatory, stakeholder-driven approach to exploit opportunities for investment and growth in industries with high levels of micro- and small enterprise involvement.
- Sustainability:
- Leveraging development resources to ensure local buy-in and maximize the long-term effectiveness of our programs. A cornerstone of our work is strengthening local institutions. We emphasize market-driven solutions and integrated cross-sectoral approaches that promote close collaboration with the private sector and strengthen local actors and institutions.
- Public-Private Alliances:
- Providing solutions to serious development issues require collaboration among public sector, private sector, and non-governmental actors. We take an outcomes-based approach to forming strategic alliances in order to contribute real value to both business and development objectives.
- Youth and Workforce Development:
- Providing a wide variety of educational activities, training, and employment services to help youth reach their potential and become empowered to help create lasting social and economic change.
- Gender:
- Creating economic opportunities for women to become entrepreneurs, business leaders, farmers, community activists, and educators that build stronger communities through increased self-sufficiency and higher social status.
- Innovation and Technology Transfer:
- Moving ideas into practical action, scaling-up programs that have demonstrated a positive impact, and disseminating information to increase sustainable productivity of farms, small enterprises, nongovernmental organizations, and communities.
