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Honduran fisher in small-scale boat

Lobsters, Reefs and Livelihoods

A union between an American restaurant giant and USAID helps create an engine for sustainable fisheries in Honduras.

USAID held its third Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge for Development earlier this year.

These Docs Aim to Save Moms' Lives Many Times Over

Dr. Thomas F. Burke, center, leads a team from Massachusetts General Hospital that created device to stop post-partum bleeding.

Saving Lives Profile: Stopping Post-Partum Bleeding

A team led by Dr. Irina Buhimschi, director of the Center for Perinatal Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio, went

Saving Lives Profile: Pinpointing Preeclampsia with a Simple Red Dot

Dr. Edgar Kestler is the director of the Epidemiological Research Center in Sexual and Reproductive Health (CIESAR) in Guatemala

Saving Lives Profile: Que Vivan Las Madres, Long Live the Mothers

Christopher Mfornyam, of Africare, mans his organization's display at USAID's third Saving Lives at Birth event.

Saving Lives Profile: Senegal's Mother Mentors

President Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice gave the keynote address at the USAID-sponsored SLAB event

Podcast: Saving Lives at Birth -- Up for the Challenge

A small entrepreneur uses her mobile banking services to pay for her supplies.

A Mobile Banking Revolution in the Making

Riders for Health helps maintain motorcycles so outreach workers can provide health education, immunizations, HIV counseling and

On a Higher Mission: University “Development Labs” Accelerating to Answer World’s Toughest Challenges

Integrated Savings and Lending Groups use a small wooden box to store the savings collected at the meeting and to keep their boo

Your Voice: Rwandans Bank on Banking as Avenue to Greater Gains

Reaching rural areas in Kenya, Uganda and beyond

Ventures in Innovation

Kenya's notoriously dangerous matatus

Ventures: Stickers to Save Lives

Mera Gao Power’s community-level solution

Ventures: Bringing Rural India on the Grid

Modular design allows latrines to fit where they are needed most

Ventures: Franchising Human Waste in Kenya's Slums

CommCare is easily customizable and includes pictures and voice

Ventures: A Powerful Platform for India's Front-Line Health Workers

Keeping water clean for up to 72 hours

Ventures: Chlorine to Save Lives

Development & Defense

USAID’s Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction project provides training in first aid and first response for communities vulner

In Afghanistan, Changing the Nature of Fate

In a society where natural disasters are often accepted as divine providence, a USAID program is helping teach communities that they can act to protect themselves.

Former USAID Mission Director for Afghanistan Ken Yamashita attends a briefing with Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team U.S.

Your Voice: What This Former Afghanistan Mission Director Has Learned

Farm attendant Rhoan Hepburn, rear, with fourth and fifth grade students in the breakfast feeding program at the Flanker Primar

Reaping What They Sow, One Jamaican Community Is Harvesting Peace and Produce

A EUCOM/USAID program in Macedonia provides diversity training, technical assistance, and incentives to school boards, principal

In Macedonia, School Integration Seen as Tool for Peace

The U.S. Government's C130 plane carrying relief goods from Manila arrives in Davao City on December 11, 2011, to support the Ph

Interagency Partnership in Disaster Response Saves Filipino Lives

Event organizers participate in the opening ceremony initiating the two-day ‘caravana’ held in Padre Abad province, March 23-24,

Your Voice: The Caravans Combatting Peru's Coca Economy

Extras - September/October 2013

Students at the launching of Guatemala’s bachelor’s degree program in police science with a specialization in community-based po

Your Voice: Renewing Police Reform Efforts in Guatemala

Carlos A. Rosales is a senior democracy and governance adviser at USAID/Guatemala.

Four- and 5-year-old girls from “Kalynka” group attend a music class.

In Ukraine, Raising the Standard of Living One Degree at a Time