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USAID in Jamaica
1962 – Present
Overview:
Currently priority goals of U.S. assistance in Jamaica have focused on promoting greater transparency and good governance practices; fostering Jamaican articipation in regional security; strengthening basic education; reducing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS; promoting economic prosperity; and decreasing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.
Democracy & Governance
Development Credit Authority (DCA)
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 2015 –2023
Project Overview:
The Development Credit Authority (DCA) uses partial credit guarantees to share risk with local financial institutions in order to open financing for underserved sectors.
Literacy Enhancement For The Deaf Project
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 2017 –2020
Project Overview:
This activity is aimed at increasing the literacy level of the deaf children in schools operated by the four major service providers of the deaf education in Jamaica.
Local Partner Development
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 2017 - 2023
Project Overview:
This activity seeks to improve the knowledge, skills, and abilities of USAID/Jamaica’s local partners to improve security and prosperity, in collaboration with key public and private sector partners.
Transitional Living Programme for Children in State Care
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 2014 –2020
Project Overview:
The Transitional Living Program for Children in State Care Project (TLP-CSC) is the first of its kind in Jamaica and involves a multi-dimensional approach to preparing wards of the State, who are at an increased risk for poor outcomes on leaving care, to transition into independence.
“A New Path”: Promoting a Healthy Environment and Productive Alternatives for Juvenile Remandees and Offenders in Jamaica
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 2014 - 2019
Project Objective:
The activity's objective is twofold: 1) to prepare detainees in youth correctional facilities across Jamaica with marketable technical skills, life skills, and individualized psychosocial attention to enable their successful reintegration into society, and 2) to assist the releasees in accessing educational, vocational, and internship/employment opportunities, while providing comprehensive case management for six to twelve months after release.
Disaster Risk Reduction & Energy Resilience
Caribbean Energy Initiative
Country: Regional
Duration: 2019 –2024
Project Overview:USAID’s Caribbean Energy Initiative (CEI) focuses on building energy sector resilience across the region, in recognition of the critical role that a steady, reliable energy supply plays in the daily economy of the region and in post-disaster recovery.
Regional Development Credit Authority (DCA)
Country: Regional
Duration: 2019 –2024
Project Overview:
The Development Credit Authority (DCA) will increase access to finance for individuals, households, SMEs, entrepreneurs, and companies across the Caribbean region (Jamaica, the Eastern and Southern Caribbean) pursuing renewable energy sector endeavors.
Health
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Project Overview:
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the U.S. Government initiative to help save the lives of those suffering from HIV/AIDS around the world. This historic commitment is the largest by any nation to combat a single disease internationally, and PEPFAR investments also help alleviate suffering from other diseases across the global health spectrum. PEPFAR is driven by a shared responsibility among donor and partner nations and others to make smart investments to save lives.
Controlling the HIV Epidemic
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 2019 –2022
Project Overview:
To reach epidemic control, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) aims to addresses key barriers across the HIV continuum of care. The main objectives of the program are: 1) finding the undiagnosed persons living with HIV (PLHIV); 2) initiating on antiretroviral therapy (ART) for persons diagnosed but not on treatment; and 3) achieving viral suppression for persons on ART.
Health Connect Jamaica
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 2019 –2021
Project Overview:The Health Connect Jamaica activity is establishing new partnerships with the private health sector, including building a private sector network of clinicians that target HIV/AIDS patients. The network will model ways in which the private sector can play an official role in Jamaica’s vision for multisectoral HIV/AIDS care, as described in the country’s impending HIV National Strategic Plan. Specifically, the network will facilitate linkage of private sector data to the public database, helping to account for diagnosed PLHIV previously considered never linked (to the public system).
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