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Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries
The STRIVE project comprises
four country initiatives—Afghanistan,
Liberia, Mozambique, Philippines. Each
explores location-specific means of reducing the
vulnerability of children and youth by strengthening
the economic resources of the families and communities
that care for them
Implementing Partner: Academy for Educational Development
Funding Period: September 2007 - September 2012
Amount: $5,000,000
Purpose: Through multi-year field projects, STRIVE
will identify and demonstrate effective means of improving
the long-term economic circumstances of vulnerable
children, families, and communities
Objectives: The following
key principles will provide the foundation for designing
projects, conducting research, and assessing the impact
of the above-mentioned projects
- Conduct market studies in project locations and use
the results to design interventions that use existing
local resources or established, but under-developed
industries
- Mentor new small businesses and micro-businesses
and facilitate their entrée into established
local, national, and international industries and business
communities
- Demonstrate that interventions benefit vulnerable
children, families, and communities
The USAID-funded STRIVE (Supporting Transformation
by Reducing Insecurity and Vulnerability with Economic
Strengthening) project uses market-led economic strengthening
initiatives to benefit vulnerable children. It does
so by implementing field projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
and Asia.
STRIVE tracks and documents the economic and non-economic
(health, education, nutrition, etc.) impacts of its
projects to identify approaches that are effective
in assisting vulnerable communities, families, and
children and reducing their vulnerability to economic,
health, and other hardship.
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