QED's economic growth (EG) practice provides innovative and practical solutions to problems affecting those who are disadvantaged by a lack of income generation, food security, access to markets, financial services, business development services, and a favorable enabling environment. By integrating our award winning knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation services into our projects, we create flexible, tailored approaches to meet our clients’ needs and achieve superior results.
QED facilitates the provision of services to the underserved, improves market linkages, enhances income generation, and strengthens human capacity and local institutions. Building on our U.S. domestic and international experience, knowledge base, and lessons learned, we apply our core services of long- and short-term technical assistance, knowledge management; facilitation, professional development; and public outreach and communications to its economic growth projects.
We give clients the tools they need to:
To give our clients access to short- and long-term know-how to address a wide-range of needs in all corners of the globe we draw from our talented pool of in-house and consultant experts. QED has provided direct technical assistance and performed EG sector assessments in Central/Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.
Developing results-oriented solutions tailored to each project’s unique local environment.
USAID is committed to equitable and sustainable economic growth throughout Asia. USAID activities include the five-year USAID Central Asian Republics Microeconomic Foundations for Growth IQC (CAR Micro), which supports microeconomic reform, business improvement, and trade facilitation.
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Through the Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Development (KDMD) Project QED provides knowledge and learning services and technical assistance to a range of USAID offices, bureaus, and missions including: the Microenterprise Development Office; the Economic Growth Office; the Bureau of Food...
USAID provides agriculture assistance to help Egypt improve low rural incomes and underemployment. A major strategy has been to increase value chain productivity. The Agricultural Exports and Rural Incomes-Business Development Services (AERI-BDS) Project implemented by QED supported the Mission’...
Each year, USAID advises the U.S. congress on its Microenterprise funding and program results. The data for this report is collected through Microenterprise Results Reporting (MRR).
Following the completion of each USAID fiscal year, QED collects microenterprise funding data from...
