Trailer: “Seeking Peace Amid Complex Conflicts

"Seeking Peace Amid Complex Conflicts: Nigeria's Peacemakers Are Planting Seeds of Hope in the Middle Belt" explores how communities are working to reduce conflict, improve resilience and to establish mechanisms to promote stability. ...
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Global Fragility Act offers new tools and approaches for peacebuilders

May 27, 2022

The newly enacted Global Fragility Act is an opportunity for the U.S. government and its implementing partners to re-imagine how to develop and carryout peacebuilding initiatives in five key locations, and then take those experiences to other at-risk and conflict areas, panelists said at a Society of International Development-United States session....
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ANKA: Connecting African artisans to the global market

May 20, 2022

An African start-up that created an online marketplace for mostly women-led small businesses and artisans to sell worldwide recently raised $6.1 million for expansion, thanks to an initial $1.5 million investment from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s West Africa Trade & Investment Hub (Trade Hub) aimed at leveraging outside funding. ...
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