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Agriculture and Food Security
Through Feed the Future, we work with the government to increase food security and promote economic growth by focusing on four key agricultural products: rice, maize, millet, and fish. Our programs improve productivity, harvest and collection, processing and delivery. Taking into consideration long-term needs, we strengthen higher education and agriculture research institutions and encourage policies that enable private-sector investment. We are increasing the capacity to adapt to climate shocks by providing climate information services to increase the resilience and productivity in farming, livestock and fisheries.
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
Education
Great strides have been made in the past decade to achieve universal education access. However, we still need to ensure all children receive 10 years of quality education, especially girls and vulnerable children. Working with the government, teachers, parents, students and businesses, we helped 500,000 children attend school, 300,000 of whom are girls. We also built or restored more than 100 schools, donated over 3 million textbooks, and provided internet access for 20,000 students. We worked with the Ministry of Education to establish higher-quality standards for education and a national curriculum that is sensitive to gender, ethnicity and social standing.
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