Global

Changing the Way We Move: A Win-Win for Climate and Development

As cities around the world continue to grow and congestion and pollution continue to increase, this blog post is intended to promote sustainable transport modes as a climate and development solution.

Investing in Waste Management and Recycling with a Gender Lens

This guide offers a business case, framework, examples, case studies, and tools that can help commercial and impact investors in the waste management and recycling sector to integrate a gender lens in their activities. Read More

Program for Local and Urban Sustainability (PLUS): A Field Support Mechanism to Advance Integrated Urban Programming

The Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI) is pleased to announce that the new Program for Local and Urban Sustainability (PLUS), a global field support mechanism, is now available for Mission buy-in. The PLUS program provides a range of programming options that will help USAID partner countries develop more… Read More

Green Cities Podcast Series

In this three-part podcast series, we explore the role sustainable and inclusive urbanization can play in addressing multiple USAID priorities like air quality, water resources, ocean plastics, gender equality, climate change, urban resilience, biodiversity, and economic growth. Read More

Short-Lived Climate Pollutants & USAID’s Climate Strategy: Achieving Fast Mitigation

This guide identifies possible SLCP actions that can be taken across key sectors and USAID regions for advancing development and climate goals. Read More

Save Our Seas Initiative Launch Event

USAID launched the Save Our Seas Initiative on June 22, 2022 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. This event was co-hosted by United States Senators the Honorable Dan Sullivan and the Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse. Watch the event livestream recording Ocean plastic pollution has reached crisis level: every minute, more… Read More

UN Ocean Conference Virtual Event: Preventing Marine Plastic Pollution Through Development Cooperation & Women’s Empowerment

June 28, 2022 (Tuesday) at 8:00 – 9:15 AM (Eastern), 1:00 – 2:15 PM (Lisbon), 8:00 – 9:00 PM (Singapore) In this virtual UN Ocean Conference side event, speakers from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,… Read More

The Building Blocks of a Circular Economy: USAID’S Local Systems Approach to Reducing Ocean Plastic Pollution

This brief describes each building block, outlines custom performance indicators, and provides examples to address key constraints to develop programs that use a systems approach and consider context-specific mechanisms and tools. Read More

The Building Blocks of a Circular Economy & the 3Rs

A systems approach to reducing ocean plastics… Read More

USAID Climate Strategy 2022-2030 Resource Page

USAID has developed a new Climate Strategy that will guide its work through 2030. This new Strategy takes a “whole-of-Agency” approach that calls on all corners of USAID to play a part in the response. USAID will work on the ground with partner governments and local actors to set the global trajectory toward a vision of a resilient, prosperous, and equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Read More