Youth being trained at a computer laboratory implemented by the Youth Employability program. Computer training helps disadvantaged youth find jobs in Salvador, Recife, and Fortaleza. This USAID-supported program establishes partnerships with the private sector to help youth find their first job.
Brazil Snapshot
Date of Independence: 1822
Population: 188.694 million (2009)
GDP (PPP) $2.024 trillion (2009)
GDP per capita (PPP) $10,200
Source: CIA, The World Factbook
http://brazil.usaid.gov
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USAID Assistance to the Brazil
(Dollars in Millions)
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Program Officer
Alexandre Mancuso
USAID Brasilia – Unit 3500
APO, AA 34030
Tel: (55-61) 3312-7246
E-mail: amancuso@usaid.gov
Desk Officer (Washington)
Adriana Hayes
Tel: 202-712-0361
E-mail: pahayes@usaid.gov
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Overview
With an estimated 198 million people, Brazil’s population ranks fifth in the world and largest in Latin America. Its vast natural resources and large labor pool reinforce Brazil’s regional leadership and status as one of Latin America's economic powers.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) establishes cooperative agreements and partners with local organizations aiding Brazil with projects in sectors such as environment, health, and economy.
USAID/Brazil is preserving natural ecosystems, promoting sustainable forest management, mitigating climate change, promoting clean alternative energy technologies, supporting efforts to prevent and control tuberculosis and malaria, promoting economic empowerment and social inclusion for people living with HIV/AIDS, reducing crime, and improving social and economic inclusion through mechanisms such as Global Development Alliances, while fostering trade-led micro and small enterprise development in efforts to expand economic opportunities to disadvantaged people.
Programs
Economic Growth
Environment
USAID is addressing global concerns of biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation in Brazil through support for innovative partnerships between experienced local and international environmental organizations. USAID provides grant funding to help build institutional networks that empower local communities, generate and disseminate sound resource management practices, and contribute to formulating public policies that support and encourage such practices. USAID also works with indigenous organizations to assist them in protecting their cultures, lands, and ecosystems.
Youth Employability
USAID assistance seeks to promote economic opportunities for disadvantaged youth through technology-based training, related life skills support, job placement assistance, and entrepreneurial opportunities. The program also offers marketable skills training for at-risk youth and increases youth access to formal market employment opportunities.
Energy
The USAID/Brazil Energy Program’s main goal is to develop local clean and renewable energy capacity, while advancing clean energy and energy efficiency technologies and services that have the potential to benefit millions of citizens. The productive use of renewable energy technologies, such as biomass, biofuel, solar, wind and small-scale hydropower plants, has the potential to generate jobs, create business opportunities, positively impact climate change, and improve the quality of life of Brazil’s population. Renewable energy is also considered a cost-effective mechanism to provide energy to Brazil’s most remote communities.
Corporate Social Responsibility
USAID seeks to foster strategic alliances with U.S. and other public and private sector companies to encourage innovation, support political reforms, improve the business environment, and promote sustainable socioeconomic development in Brazil through corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Investing In People
Health
USAID assists the Brazilian Government in tuberculosis control by expanding Directly Observed Therapy Short-course Strategy (DOTS) coverage, training health professionals, and supporting treatment and research. In malaria control, USAID is helping to implement the use of insecticide treated bednets (ITNs). USAID also works closely with the Brazilian National STD & AIDS Program to support activities to promote quality of life and social inclusion for people living with HIV/AIDS. USAID programs also help develop creative strategies to expand access to HIV testing and counseling while supporting training to help beneficiaries cope with the negative side-effects of AIDS medications.
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