Fact Sheets

Start date:  October 1, 2012
End Date: May 1, 2014 
Project budget (Life of Project):   $208,578
Additional co-funding from the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ($208,578), Macedonian Ministry of Finance ($19,796), and the Center for Excellence in Finance ($46,036)
Implementer:  Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF)

Start date:  April 1, 2012     Duration:  Three years
Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):  $850,000
Implementer: National Democratic Institute (NDI)


Objectives

Support an independent Parliament that will represent the citizens, create informed rules that govern the society, and monitor the work of the executives.

Start date:  December 2011
Duration:  Three years
Project budget (Life of Project):  $ 3,696,110
Implementer:  Tetra Tech DPK


Objectives

Strengthen the role of the judiciary in the separation of powers, and develop broad based support for rule of law and judicial sector reform.

Start date:  December 2012                 End Date:  June 2015   

Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):    $949,684  

Implementer:  Macedonian Civic Education Center


Objectives

Strengthen the teacher career and professional development system in Macedonia.  Create and institutionalize structures and processes that guide and inform the system.

Start date:  September 30, 2010                  End date:  September 29, 2015    

Project budget (Life of Project):  $6.7 million  

Implementer:     Education Development Center (EDC)   

Start date:         June 28, 2004                    End date:   May 31, 2014    

Project budget:           $ 4,530,760               

Implementer:             Foundation Open Society - Macedonia (FOS-M)


Objectives

Help Roma students remain in the school system and improve their performance and attendance, by means of positive interventions in preschool and primary school. Earlier components of this project also assisted secondary school and university students.

Start date:  December 2011                  End date:  Dec. 2015

Project budget (Life of Project):  $ 5,200,000

Implementer:  Macedonian Civic Education Center in partnership with other local NGOs


Objectives

Build the awareness and capacity of school boards, principals, teachers, and administration officials to deal with diversity and multi-ethnic issues.  Provide diversity training and incentives in support of the central and local government efforts for ethnic integration.

Today, President Obama reaffirmed the United States’ continued commitment and support for the Syrian people by announcing an additional $155 million in humanitarian aid to help meet the acute needs of people inside Syria and refugees across the region who are affected by the violence in Syria.  This new funding includes the $10 million announced last week in Turkey by the visiting U.S. delegation. 

Tech-Serve helped strengthen the Ministry of Public Health’s (MoPH) health system stewardship at all levels, leading to improvements in overall population health. Tech-Serve worked with the MoPH to improve access to quality health services and improve the outcomes of key MoPH indicators in the 13 Afghan provinces where USAID provides health service support. 

Afghanistan is one of the 22 high burden tuberculosis (TB) countries.  The incidence and prevalence of TB remains high; estimated incidence and prevalence for TB cases is 189 and 351 per 100,000 people, respectively, according to the 2012 World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Report.  The Ministry of Public Health’s (MoPH) National Tuberculosis Program (NTP), with support from USAID and other donors, manages Afghanistan’s TB response.

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