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SUCCESS STORIES
Making a difference—the evidence of success
Throughout the world, DAI is assisting people to find a sustainable path to meaningful economic, political, and social development. Although international development successes are often measured over time using aggregate statistics, it is also important to recognize how these programs are changing lives today, on the ground—of communities, families, and individuals. DAI Success Stories chronicle the many ways that we are doing exactly that.
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Teaching Basic Health Care Skills to Those Who Need Them Most Medical Training Reaches Women in Afghanistan Excluded from active civic participation for so long, Afghanistan’s women are beginning to take advantage of programs that help them gain more control over their lives... read full story |
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Building Up Businesses in Timor-Leste DAI projects combine to expand economic opportunity and reduce poverty DAI’s long-standing presence in Timor-Leste began only a month after the nation declared its intention to break away from Indonesia in 1999. Managing a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), DAI provided grants that... read full story |
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A Green Revolution in Nigeria? Mobilizing the forces of reform to improve agricultural inputs Adopted with assistance from DAI’s Restructured Economic Framework for Openness, Reform and Macroeconomic Stability (REFORMS) project, Nigeria’s National Fertilizer Policy enables substantial reforms in many areas... read full story |
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Afghans Rebuild Their Country and Their Lives AINP provides fast results for the people of Afghanistan At the end of 2004, Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan was in crisis. After 25 years of war and drought, the countryside and its inhabitants were devastated... read full story |
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U.S. Assistance Supports Fast Reaction to Flash Floods in Serbia Contingency planning pays off for stricken towns Heavy rains in November 2007 caused flash flooding in southern Serbia, affecting numerous municipalities. The waters washed out bridges and roads, flooded homes and cellars, and posed a serious threat to public health. read full story |
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Albanian Essential Oils Find New Markets in the United States Organic certification, buyer linkages open doors for Albanian producers An Albanian producer, a Belgian buyer, a Vietnamese laboratory, and an American market—it’s a story fit for the era of the global economy... read full story |
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Pakistani Provincial Assembly Launches Media Center Ensuring the Press Has the Tools to Monitor Government When the Provincial Assembly of Sindh reconvenes in Karachi after elections slated for February 18, 2008, correspondents covering the provincial legislature will have access to the best press facilities read full story |
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Palestinian Apprenticeship Program Celebrates 61 More Graduates Workforce Development in the West Bank In the fall of 2007, 61 apprentices graduated from the Palestinian Enterprise Development project’s Employment Generation Program (EGP). read full story |
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A Star in the Making in Pakistan's Civil Service Intern Posts Best Entrance Exam Score in 20 Years Fida Hussein grew up in modest circumstances near Larkarna, Pakistan, in one of the poorer rural areas of Sindh province. read full story |
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Candlenuts Fuel Economic Growth in Timor-Leste Local Factory Capitalizes on Grants for Training, Equipment Hundreds of candlenuts lay drying in the sun at Maria Anglica Freitas’ feet. Long popular in Timor-Leste for cooking... read full story |
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Debate Camp Builds Students’ Power to Persuade Fostering respect for dialogue among Liberia’s future leaders “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers! Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers! Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers!” This familiar tongue twister sounds like an odd way to build the foundations of civil discourse... read full story |
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Artisans and Apprentices Learn Basic Business Skills in Liberia Donors combine funds to develop workforce On a sunny Saturday morning in Zwedru, a town of 15,000 in eastern Liberia, 20 small business owners and employees gather for the third day of a business training program. read full story |
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Connecting Farmers to Markets in Tanzania Training helps local farmers secure lucrative contract Nestled among mountain peaks at 5,000 feet, the isolated village of Mgeta produces some of Tanzania’s finest fruits and vegetables. Mgeta’s farmers labor year-round on steep terraces, harvesting top-quality onions, beets, leeks ... read full story |
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Mayor's Initiative Doubles Tax Base in Macedonian City Residents to benefit from increased revenue Just one year out of university in Vrapchiste, Macedonia, Mustaf Mustafa hardly expected to be tasked with solving one of the most critical problems facing his local government. But when the mayor called on him ... read full story |
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The Drvar Birthing Center’s First Baby Boy DAI helps breathe new life into a municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina In the war-devastated community of Drvar, a new sense of optimism arrived in February, along with the birth of Bozana Damjanovic’s healthy baby boy. read full story |
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Agricultural Trade Fair Brings Opportunity to Afghanistan DAI organizes first annual event that draws 11,000 visitors To the casual observer, a donkey dress-up contest may not appear to be an effective economic indicator. read full story |
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Using Micro-Credit to Preserve Local Identity DAI brings business opportunity to artisan community in Ecuador Every June, Corpus Christi festivities take over the small Ecuadorian town of Pujili and residents pour into the streets, parading in a blur of colorful revelry. If local artisan German Olmos has his way, that festive spirit will be exported year-round read full story |
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From Fighting To Fish Farming Fish farming initiative generates income and opportunity in war-torn Butembo There is a mantra that is recited constantly in the development community: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he feeds himself for a lifetime... read full story |
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Baking Their Way Into Business Vocational training program offers possibilities to ex-combatants After years of fighting in Liberia’s civil war, Massi Gissi now has “something to hold on to.” Recently trained as a baker, she now dreams of opening her own bakery shop... read full story |
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Date Palm Nurseries Bring Hope to Iraq’s Marshdwellers Profitable crop grown in the marshlands of Iraq offers promise of future income Dates have played an important cultural and economic role in Iraq from Sumerian times, more than 5,000 years ago. Yet during the turmoil following the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the failed Shi’a insurrection, the Iraq marshlands fell victim to… read full story |
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After the Tsunami, Sri Lankans Band Together to Clean Up Their City Grants funded by USAID and administered by DAI support rehabilitation in the southern city of Matara Southern Province, Sri Lanka – The 40,000 residents of the city of Matara were among the tens of millions directly affected by the tsunami that hit South and Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004… read full story |
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Cutting-Edge Management System Boosts Municipal Governments’ Efficiency and Accountability Success of CitiStat may lead to replication throughout Serbia Baltimore, Maryland, is 4,700 miles from the Serbian cities of Indjija and Paraćin, yet all three cities share the distinction of having implemented CitiStat, an innovative and promising new municipal management system… read full story |
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Vietnamese Handicrafts Enter the Global Marketplace Local firms link with international buyers to access new markets For more than 1,000 years, residents of the Bat Trang village in northwestern Vietnam have made a living by producing a unique form of ceramics. Today, as Vietnam integrates into the global economy, new opportunities… read full story |
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Using the Web, Armenians Expand Their Democracy The Armenian Parliament’s new Web site offers citizens the freedom to be informed Log onto www.parliament.am and you will find a Web site of the caliber you might expect from a leading Web-based company. But this newly redesigned, user-friendly Web site does not sell books or auction concert tickets… read full story |
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Planting Trees Protects Vital Water Resource in Armenian River Basin DAI administers small grant to fund project with diverse benefits for community and environment After years of deforestation around the Tandzut River in the Debed River Basin of northwestern Armenia, mudflows, erosion, and landslides were becoming increasingly destructive to the region’s economy and environment… read full story |
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Simple Irrigation Kits Yield Life-Changing Results Throughout Zimbabwe, health and economic benefits reach those most in need As 500 orphaned children gather for another meal at the Holy Cross Parish in Tshabalala, a densely populated suburb of Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, Father Eugene is relieved the parish has recently increased its capacity to… read full story |
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Cutting Red Tape Boosts Small Business in Uganda DAI Europe assists local government to reform trade licensing For residents of this city of 90,000 on the northern shores of Lake Victoria, the process of transforming an innovative business idea into reality had always been tedious and expensive. To obtain the necessary trade license, an entrepreneur… read full story |
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Building a Market Economy from the Ground Up Tanzanians take ownership of their economic future Strength in numbers. That is the lesson the rice farmers of Tanzania’s southwestern Mbarali district have learned. Long at the mercy of local moneylenders… read full story |
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“You Brought us Back to Life” Serbian municipality benefits from reform program’s practical solutions In the southwestern Serbian municipality of Nova Varoš, Public Communal Enterprise “3. septembar” is operating with new energy… read full story |
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After 45 Years, Romanian Students Finally Get Running Water Small village works with local government to resolve long-standing health concern For the 100 children who live in and around the small, southern Romanian village of Comanca, going to school recently became safer—and more pleasant. Since the village’s five-classroom school was constructed in the early 1960s… read full story |
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Micro-loans Fight Poverty in Rural Haiti Small loan guarantees bring economic opportunity to hillside farmers Until recently, Haiti’s hillside farmers faced immense obstacles to selling their coffee beans. Regional coffee cooperatives were unable to buy member-produced coffee because they lacked access to credit, forcing farmers to seek buyers… read full story |
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