Local Sustainability Institutional Support Contract
Technical Area
- Institutional Strengthening
CLIENT
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Region
- North America
Duration
- 2015 – 2018
Fueling locally-driven development.
The USAID Local Sustainability (LS) Office within the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment was focused on deepening the Agency’s partnerships with local development actors to facilitate sustainable development. Through grants, capacity building, and material support, LS helped address challenges that local organizations face in their efforts to play leading roles in their own countries.
Dexis provided technical and management experts to the LS Office in civil society, governance, private enterprise, private capital, social enterprise, fundraising, domestic capital mobilization, community philanthropy, capacity development, evaluation, media, and organizational management. Our experts helped to implement the LS Small Grants Program (SGP, also known as Local Works), the Cooperative Development Program (CDP), and the Development Grants Program (DGP). In addition, Dexis staff embedded in LS to provided monitoring and evaluation, program design and implementation, and communications support.