USAID's 2022 Work with USAID Photo Contest closed on March 7, and we were thrilled with your images showing how USAID and its partners collaborate to achieve development impact around the world. Below are the top eight winning submissions. Thank you to everyone who participated!

USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation’s Inclusive Development Hub is pleased to invite you to attend the first session in a three-part webinar series showcasing USAID projects that are pioneering new approaches and unconventional methodologies to more effectively engage, work with, and empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

On Tuesday, March 22 at 9:00am ET, USAID will host its FY 2022 Second Quarter Business Forecast and Partner Update webinar.

What does partnership with USAID look like? Enter our 2022 Photo Contest to show us your best images of how USAID and its partners collaborate to achieve development impact around the world. Photos should showcase the diversity, innovative spirit, energy, and dedication of the USAID and partner staff whose shared efforts are changing the world. Creative ways of depicting partnerships are encouraged, and we are open to a range of submissions. Development organizations do not need to be a current or former recipient of a USAID award to participate.

View the recording and slide deck from the January 25 "Lessons Learned from USAID New and Local Partnerships" webinar. In January 2021, the USAID Office of Acquisition and Assistance (M/OAA) launched a stocktaking review of the 2018 Acquisition & Assistance Strategy (A&A Strategy). As a part of that stocktaking review, a number of case studies were developed from awards managed by various parts of the Agency.

Please join USAID’s Office of Acquisition and Assistance (M/OAA) and the Local, Faith, and Transformative Partnerships Hub (DDI/LFT) for a learning event on Tuesday, January 25, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. In this event, representatives from USAID Missions and implementing partners will share lessons learned from working with new and local partners, and how these experiences will inform future localization efforts and acquisition and assistance approaches at USAID.

Justin DiVenanzo is Director of the Office of Acquisitions and Assistance and Supervisory Contracting Officer with USAID/Rwanda. He joined USAID in 2010 and has served in Liberia, Pakistan, South Africa, and on the Power Africa Initiative during its expansion. He recently shared guidance for implementing partners on LinkedIn that was received with great enthusiasm among members of the partner community. We spoke with him to further understand the context of this guidance and to gather more insights from his extensive experience as a USAID Contracting Officer. 

As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to address the root causes of irregular migration, USAID is sponsoring the MujerProspera (WomanProsper) Challenge, a regional challenge to advance gender equality in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

USAID’s Local, Faith and Transformative Partnerships (LFT) Hub invites you to join us for a demonstration of key features of the newly launched WorkwithUSAID.org website.

The USAID Business Forecast provides information about potential funding and partnership opportunities at USAID and offers partners the opportunity to engage with us early in the procurement process. The Business Forecast includes anticipated activities that are still in the planning phase, so the information in it may change over time.