USAID

Highlights from USAID's Contributions to #COP28 🔸 Progress on PREPARE  🔸 Supporting Climate Actions in Cities 🔸 USAID and Prosper Africa Investing in Green Guarantee Company 🔸 Accelerating Food Systems Transformation 🔸 Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI) Partnership for Climate Action (PCA) 🔸 Securing Donor Support for Locally Led Adaptation 🔸 Power Africa Supporting Energy Transitions   🔸 Enhancing Inclusion and Equity 🔸 Investing in Green Infrastructure in Pakistan 🔸Supporting Liquidity and Sustainability Facility for Green Investments in Africa 🔸 Promoting Middle East and North Africa Climate Action Learn more about each of these investments and announcements in our COP28 recap here: https://lnkd.in/grCb-PE9

Laddie is an Afro-Colombian council leader in the Pacific coast city of Tumaco, Colombia 🇨🇴. The local community there knows that forests provide so many things – like food, protection, and livelihoods – and should be conserved. Laddie’s community is one of 19 Afro-Colombian and Indigenous groups USAID supported with REDD+ projects, which conserves forests that capture carbon, which, in turn, generate credits sold on the carbon market. Funds received from the sale of carbon credits are reinvested into the community. Laddie explains it best: “It all becomes a circle. Plant a tree…and that tree will later provide income to the community to plant even more trees, which will generate more resources, improve the conditions for people in our community, and…provide better conditions for the entire planet.” #USAID #COP28 #Colombia #Conservation #Forests

EVENT: Join us December 18 at 8:00am ET for the webinar as part of our Health System Strengthening Learning Series. USAID's Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus (PQM+) program will use a ‘talk show’ format for this event to highlight country case studies and explore key questions: 🔹 What are the linkages among the quality assurance of medical products, service delivery, leadership and governance, and health system financing? 🔹 How can these interactions strengthen a health system and impact health outcomes? 🔹 What experiences and evidence from countries reflect positive change? Register to attend: https://lnkd.in/gxqV-ymU #Event #USAID #GlobalHealth

Announcements from USAID at #COP28: 🔹 USAID is committing more than $53 million for new low-carbon and climate resilient activities in 23 cities in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. More here: https://lnkd.in/g8ub2FRn 🔹 Administrator Samantha Power and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry announced today that 21 new companies have committed to invest in climate adaptation as part of the Call to Action to the Private Sector under the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). Their efforts, in support of the objectives of PREPARE, will mobilize an estimated $2.3 billion in additional adaptation finance. More here: https://lnkd.in/gXGqMrpr #USAID #COP28 #COP28UAE

EVENT: In recognition of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day next week on December 12th, please join the The Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative, in partnership with USAID’s MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator and Local Health System Sustainability Project, for a robust discussion on lessons learned from incorporating health system strengthening approaches into COVID-19 response efforts as we strive for UHC and #HealthForAll. Speakers will share context-specific examples of lessons learned and remaining challenges as well as how the findings can support future pandemic preparedness and advance health system resilience. Join us on December 12, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. ET, in person or virtually! RSVP to attend: https://bit.ly/47jmdzx

Today, USAID announced the delivery of much needed equipment donated by Cisco to support education in Ukraine, and help prepare the next generation of Ukrainian cybersecurity experts. USAID worked with Cisco and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to identify immediate equipment and training needs.  As part of its Country Digital Acceleration program, Cisco is equipping five instructional labs at Ukrainian universities with state-of-the-art Cisco telecommunications equipment to support the training of a new cadre of cybersecurity experts. To further support the development of Ukraine’s digital workforce, almost 200 educational institutions have partnered with Cisco to provide digital skills training to 36,000 learners over the past academic year through the Cisco Networking Academy, one of the longest-standing IT skills-to-jobs programs in the world.

USAID at #COP28: Through Feed the Future, USAID announced a $215 million (subject to available funds) commitment to support smallholder farmers access climate-smart innovations and continue to sustainably produce food in the face of #ClimateChange. More on the announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gVBcf6uA

Today at #COP28 the U.S. government, including USAID and the U.S. Presidential initiative Prosper Africa, announced its investment in a public-private partnership to create the Green Guarantee Company (GGC), the first ever privately run guarantee company devoted to catalyzing green bonds and loans in partner countries, focusing on Africa, Asia, and Latin America. More on this announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gtrP42-e

Just announced at #RLMForum: a coalition of partners just renewed and strengthened their joint support for community health workers, which includes a commitment by the Global Fund of US$900 million for the next 3 years—74% of which will be invested in African countries. The following partners joined this historic commitment, made on the sidelines of #COP28’s first-ever Health Day in the United Arab Emirates: The Presidential Court of UAE, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Africa Frontline First, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the Johnson & Johnson Foundation, the Skoll Foundation, the Mastercard Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), USAID, and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Community health workers, with the salaries, supplies, skills, and supervision they need to achieve their full potential, are essential to resilient health systems that can adapt to disease and climate threats, and achieve universal health coverage. Sunday’s announcement moves us closer to a world where no one is left behind. https://bit.ly/418zoAU #COP28HealthDay #GlobalHealth #cop28uae

On Dec 6th at #COP28, USAID Administrator Power will join global environment leaders for multi-level action on: 📈 Mobilizing and Localizing Climate Finance | 9:45-10:45 AM Gulf time (12:00 AM Washington, DC). Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gQFmaRWx 🌿 PREPARE Call to Action to the Private Sector | 2:30-3:30 PM Gulf time (5:30 AM Washington, DC). Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gix6YQzM 🏙️ Advancing Low-Carbon and Climate-Resilient Solutions in Cities | 3:45-4:45 PM Gulf time (6:45 AM Washington, DC). Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gusm2QKY You can catch all the COP28 action via the general livestream here: https://lnkd.in/gbfUZ4fD #COP28 #COP28UAE #USAID #ClimateAction