Acdi Voca

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Nov 13, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$169,008,107

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Community development: in 2012, acdi/voca's community development practice area continued to focus on three main areas : 1) providing vulnerable populations opportunities to engage in sustainable livelihoods activities; 2) developing programs that help communities emerging from conflict to regain the trust required for social and economic reconstruction and stabilization; and 3) assisting communities transition from illicit to licit crop production. We achieved success during the year through demand-driven community development, value chain interventions and participatory approaches. Our projects benefited more than 200,000 households across the world in countries including east timor, sierra leone, bolivia, iraq, colombia, liberia, paraguay and afghanistan. Through our capacity building efforts, we improved the ability of local governments to provide needed services to their constituents. We completed more than 90 community and small-scale infrastructure projects in bolivia, afghanistan and iraq, resulting in improved access to potable water, sanitation systems, and agricultural support structures. Localization and capacity building of local organizations formed a critical component of our activities during the year. In total, acdi/voca's community development teams trained more than 30,000 individuals and created more than 4,000 jobs in 2012. Through acdi/voca's community development activities, program beneficiaries, including women, youth, internally displace persons (idps), ethnic and religious minorities and individuals impacted by political and civil instability, are benefiting from new opportunities for economic, social and political engagement.

Activity 3

Agribusiness: in 2012 acdi/voca's agribusiness programs provided farmers and farmer organizations in 20 countries in africa, latin america, asia and the middle east with improved technologies and skills to increase yields, minimize losses, improve quality and link to markets - all towards our goal of improving livelihoods through fostering greater competitiveness in local, regional and global markets. We identified opportunities for both smallholder and commercial-scale agribusinesses to succeed and helped them develop strong business models. Acdi/voca's agribusiness programs are achieving a sustainable increase in the purchasing power of hundreds of thousands of rural households worldwide. These programs trigger a "virtuous cycle" of asset accumulation and expanded opportunities for income, health and nutrition as a growing number of commercial enterprises are motivated to provide this new consumer base with goods and services. In 2012 acdi/voca started new agribusiness programs in ethiopia, ecuador, kenya and rwanda.

Filer

EIN

52-0811461