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Gender · Youth · Enterprise Development
Rethinking Recycling Norms: Improving Economic Outcomes, Safety, and Business Inclusivity in Jordan
Banyan Global is a subcontractor to Chemonics International on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Recycling in Jordan Activity.

Health Sector · Gender · Finance And Investment
Partnering Together: How Local Women’s Organizations Contribute to Improved Health Outcomes in Madagascar
As part of the USAID Improving Market Partnerships and Access to Commodities Together (IMPACT) program (2018-2023), Banyan Global is leading the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) component, ensuring that the program’s activities consider and address gender-based inequalities and constraints.

Gender · Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Facilitating Thought Leadership for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Launched by the USAID Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub (GenDev Hub), and managed by Banyan Global, the USAID Women's Economic Empowerment (USAID WEE CoP) supports its members in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Youth · Gender · Enterprise Development
Innovation in Workforce Strengthening: Adapting to COVID-19 Challenges in Honduras
In response to the socio-economic disruption brought by COVID-19, Banyan Global led one of the country’s early-on economic recovery efforts and training for employment programs under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) flagship workforce development activity, Empleando Futuros.

Building Resilience: Gender and Social Inclusion Trainings for COVID-19 Responders in Colombia
Political and economic turmoil in Venezuela has led to an unprecedented wave of migration to Colombia as well as other countries in the region. In fact, the Colombian government predicted that 3 million Venezuelan migrants would be living in the country by the end of 2020. The government faces the dual challenge of providing social services to migrants and responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

Enterprise Development · Gender · Youth
Empowering Women in Post-Harvest Management
In Ethiopia’s Amhara region, women play an important role in the agricultural sector and in post-harvest management. Women are directly engaged during crop yield collection, grading and selecting quality crops, storage preparation, pest protection, and product restocking. Women also bear sole responsibility for processing crops for family consumption, which is both time and labor intensive.