Success Stories » April 2012
Vocational Training for Internally Displaced Iraqi Women
Baghdad, Iraq – An ambitious vocational training program targeting Baghdad’s internally displaced persons (IDP) stands as a powerful example of what happens when USAID interventions leverage government and community support. The approach is a lynchpin of the Iraq Community Action Program (ICAP), which has garnered buy-in from civilian-led community action groups and loca... more
Filed Under: Civil Society, Education, Jobs, Women & Gender, Middle East & North Africa, Iraq
Response to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
The Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, caught the world’s attention with the deaths of an estimated 225,000 people and scenes of total devastation in 11 countries around the region. IRD responded immediately in two of the hardest hit countries: Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Within the first week of the disaster, IRD delivered 15,000 metric tons of rice valued at $4.... more
Filed Under: Emergency Response, Relief to Development, Asia & Pacific, Indonesia
Response to Jogjakarta Earthquake
In late May 2006, a disastrous 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Central Java region of Indonesia. The earthquake killed more than 5,600 people throughout the region, but the real crisis came in providing for the hundreds of thousands of survivors of the quake after it was over. On behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, IRD implements the School Health Improve... more
Livelihoods Recovery for Vulnerable People of Southern Sudan
After decades of civil war, generations of farming knowledge have been lost in southern Sudan. This is particularly true in areas like Upper Nile State, near the border with Ethiopia, where semi-nomadic cattle herding was a more strongly rooted tradition than settled farming. With cattle herds still small and crop yields low, there is little food available to area reside... more
Filed Under: Food & Agriculture, Nutrition, Africa, Sudan
Livelihood Security Restoration
Following political unrest in their home country, approximately 45,000 refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) have settled in Cameroon. This sudden increase in population has put a great strain on food supplies and health care systems that were already overtaxed trying to meet local needs. IRD is contributing to an improved food security situation by training t... more
Filed Under: Food & Agriculture, Nutrition, Refugees, Africa, Cameroon