USAID/Caucasus Regional
Mission Director: Robert Wilson
USAID/Azerbaijan Country
Coordinator: Scott Taylor
USAID/Baku
Department of State
Washington, DC 20521-7050
Tel: 994-12-980335
Fax: 994-12-906670 |
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Overview
Azerbaijan is an important U.S. ally due to its strategic geopolitical location, its role as a transport corridor between East and West, and its expanding importance as a source of oil and gas. Despite the country’s growing oil wealth, a significant percentage of its people still live below the poverty line. Used responsibly, Azerbaijan’s energy revenues can reduce poverty and improve the lives of all its citizens in a meaningful way.
The U.S. has a deep and abiding interest to help Azerbaijan make the best use of its energy resources and to strengthen its secular democracy in a predominantly Muslim nation. Since 1992, USAID has provided over $284 million of development and humanitarian assistance. On behalf of the American people, the current USAID portfolio focuses on programs that promote and support just governance and democracy; economic growth and prosperity; and improved health care, especially for mothers and children.
Azerbaijan in Action
 Actuary Training Helps Azerbaijan Advance Toward WTO Accession
USAID, in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the Azerbaijan Insurers Association (AIA), helped pioneer, organize, and fund the Azerbaijan Actuarial Training Program (ATP)... Read More ...
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 Community Development Helps Three Villages Speak with One Voice
On November 19, 2008, three Lenkaran villages with a combined population of approximately 8,100 residents inaugurated the completion of their USAID-supported Community Development Activity (CDA) road rehabilitation project... Read More ...
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 $4.75 Million Co-Financing MOU to Advance Financial Sector Reforms
On November 25, 2008, USAID Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Henrietta Fore and National Bank of Azerbaijan (NBA) Chairman Elman Rustamov signed a landmark $4.75 million co-financing agreement... Read More ...
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 USAID Launches Year-Long Knowledge Sharing Program for Municipalities
The USAID Civil Society Project (CSP) hosted a Knowledge Management & Sharing workshop on December 6, 2008 in Azerbaijan’s northwest city of Piral... Read More ...
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 TV Production Offers Visibility for Local Heroes, Training for Journalists
An estimated 980,000 Azerbaijanis have tuned in to watch “Heroes of Azerbaijan,” a half-hour, bi-weekly program supported by USAID which focuses on people and organizations working to make a difference within their communities... Read More ...
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 Computer Training Advances Civil Engagement Among Youth
During October and November 2008, USAID's Internet Access and Training Program (ITAP), in cooperation with BarCamp Azerbaijan, provided Adobe® Photoshop® computer training to 10 Ireli Youth Movement mentors... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan’s Legislative Support Professionals Build Skills
USAID, in collaboration with the Azerbaijan Milli Mejlis (National Parliament), held an awards ceremony for Assistants of Members of Parliament (MPAs) on November 26, 2008... Read More ...
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 Training Stresses Communications as Key to Stopping AI
On November 13, 2008, 15 doctors and staff from Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Health and Public Health Reforms Center participated in a USAID-funded Avian Influenza (AI) communication skills training... Read More ...
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 Fore Accelerates GDA Momentum in Azerbaijan
Administrator Henrietta H. Fore was keynote speaker at a November 2008 luncheon sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce in Azerbaijan (AmCham) and USAID partner, Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF)... Read More ...
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 USAID Administrator Fore Makes First Visit to Azerbaijan
USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore’s first visit to Azerbaijan significantly capitalized on existing strong and effective U.S. Government-host country counterpart relationships... Read More ...
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 U.S. Supports Strengthening Azerbaijan Bank SME Services
USAID recently announced that its Financial Sector Stability Program (FSSP), implemented by Bankworld Inc., will now provide technical advisory and training services to local Azerbaijan commercial banks... Read More ...
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 Doctors Learn IT Skills to Improve Hospital Efficiency, Protect Jobs
Pediatricians at the newly re-named Shirvan City Children’s Hospital are using computer skills gained at USAID-supported and IREX-implemented Internet Access and Training Program (IATP) centers to improve the efficiency of hospital administration... Read More ...
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 Exchange Alumna Embraces Alternative Media as Tool for Democratization
A USAID-sponsored visit to Ohio inspired freelance journalist Zenfira Alibayova to write about her experience in a series of articles on recent trends in American media... Read More ...
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 Top Reformer Looks to Develop Microfinance Sector
Driven by the growth of oil and gas revenues, Azerbaijan’s economy has experienced one of the world’s highest growth rates, contributing to a notable decline in its poverty rates... Read More ...
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 Development Alliance to Support School Economics Education
USAID, Chevron Khazar Ltd., and StatoilHydrol signed the first public-private partnership memorandum of understanding (MOU) on September 27, 2008 to support the implementation of the School Economics Education (SEE) Program by Junior Achievement Azerbaijan (JAA) in 230 schools between 2008 and 2010... Read More ...
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 Village Fair Provides a Forum for Health Education
More than 250 people turned out for a community health festival in Mahammedi, Absheron District, Azerbaijan on September 26, 2008. Organized by the USAID-funded ACQUIRE Project, in collaboration with local authorities... Read More ...
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 Shuvalan Children and Family Support Center Celebrates Ramadan
On September 24, 2008, U.S. Ambassador Anne Derse visited the Shuvalan Child and Family Support Center in Shuvalan, a suburb north of Baku, Azerbaijan. Ambassador Derse visited the center to review its progress... Read More ...
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 Border Inspectors Learn Identify, Intercept Plant Pests and Diseases
USAID’s Trade and Investment Reform Support Program (TIRSP) in Azerbaijan and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in collaboration with the Government of Azerbaijan, conducted a four-day “Border Inspection Training for Plant Health” workshop on September 23, 2008... Read More ...
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 Community Builds First Local Milk Collection Facility
Soaring summer temperatures could not keep a crowd from participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Nur Sud Milk Collection Point in Chakhyrly (Masally district), Azerbaijan on June 26, 2008... Read More ...
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 Road Rehab Makes Economic Growth Accessible for Remote Communities
Over 3,400 residents in Lerik, a remote mountainous district in southeastern Azerbaijan, and neighboring communities depend on a poorly maintained primary road... Read More ...
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 “No-Family Boy” Finds Home
Amid’s teary face and trembling voice told a heartbreaking story to USAID-supported Children and Family Support Center (CFSC) staff. During educational activities at the Center, Amid began disclosing his history... Read More ...
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 Irrigation Upgrades to Expand Crops, Family Income
For over 15 years, farmers and villagers in Tazakand (located in Azerbaijan’s Astara district) suffered from the lack of a reliable water supply... Read More ...
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 Social, Medical Care Helps Ilaha See the Best in Herself
As a result of her family’s inability to afford adequate prenatal care for her mother, Ilaha lost the use of her left eye three months after her birth... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Strengthens Response to Avian Influenza
On July 1-2, 2008, USAID hosted a National Integrated Desktop Simulation Exercise Seminar for Avian Influenza (AI) to enhance Azerbaijan’s preparedness and capacity to face AI outbreaks in animal and human populations... Read More ...
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 Continuing Education Advances Rule of Law in Azerbaijan
With the support of USAID and the U.S. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI) held a Continuing Legal Education seminar... Read More ...
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 Law Students Teach Schoolchildren About Rights
In mid-June 2008, fifty law students who had led weekly classes for third- through tenth-graders in six cities throughout Azerbaijan graduated from USAID’s Street Law Program... Read More ...
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 Exchange Helps Azerbaijan Official Translate Passion into Action
Elnur Kalantarov, Chief of Press Relations at Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, has long advocated for social integration of at-risk youth and adults with special needs... Read More ...
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Milestone Survey Reveals Azerbaijan’s Health Gains, Challenges
Azerbaijan’s State Statistical Committee presented findings from its first-ever Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) at a national conference in Baku on June 24, 2008... Read More ...
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 Irrigation Rehab to Expand Fruit Crops in Southern Azerbaijan
In June 2008, USAID hosted the inauguration of a newly-completed irrigation system rehabilitation project in Tazakand, Astara. More than 100 people, including residents from two neighboring communities... Read More ...
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 Social Investment Benefits Business, Accelerates Development
With USAID support, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), in collaboration with the Azerbaijan Export & Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO), organized two Corporate Social Investment Program events... Read More ...
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 USAID Transitions CIPA Program to Local Partners
On June 5, 2008, USAID’s Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Support through Financial Sector Development Project held a certificate award ceremony and transition presentation as part of its continued support of the Certified International Professional Accountant (CIPA) Program in Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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Journalists Become Reproductive Health Advocates in Azerbaijan
In May 2008, the USAID-funded ACQUIRE Project, in collaboration with Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Health (MOH), conducted a two-day seminar for journalists on reproductive health... Read More ...
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 Youth Fund Program to Expand to New Regions
The Azerbaijan Youth Fund Program will expand to six new regions of the country—Bilasuvar, Davachi, Zagatala, Barda, and Mengachevir city—thanks to increased assistance for the Eurasia Partnership Foundation from the Foreign Commonwealth Officer of the United Kingdom... Read More ...
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 Street Law Students Acquit Mock Trial Defendant
On their last day of school in late May 2008, fifty-five schoolchildren participated in a mock jury trial, held by the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) with USAID support in Lenkoran... Read More ...
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 Youth Sports Multiply through Azerbaijani Community Connections Participant
During her time in the U.S. on a USAID-supported Community Connections Youth and Amateur Sports and Interest-based Associations exchange, Malahat Tagiyeva learned how government agencies, NGOs, and businesses support youth through sports and other activities... Read More ...
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 U.S. Supports Food Safety Initiatives in Azerbaijan
Food safety inspections play an important role in protecting public health, particularly in the developing world where outbreaks of food-borne illnesses claim more than two million lives each year... Read More ...
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 USAID, Ministry of Health Collaborate to Improve Family Planning
Since 2004, the USAID’s ACQUIRE Reproductive Health and Family Planning Project has worked in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to increase the availability, quality, use, and sustainability of reproductive health and family planning services in Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan’s Health Specialists, Officials Embrace Evidence-Based Medicine
“In the second part of the 20th century, medical science began to use clinical trials to define whether or not treatment methods were working... Read More ...
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 Community-Based Services Strengthen Azerbaijan's Vulnerable Families
Aygun and Tofig are the parents of two girls, Zarifa and Rugiya, and a son, Mahmud, who has cerebral palsy. Due to his condition, three-year-old Mahmud’s physical and speech development were equivalent to that of a one-year-old... Read More ...
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 Teen Training Teaches Fundamentals for Success
Javid and Javad Allahverdiyev are brothers living in a government institution in Shuvelan, an urban area of Azerbaijan. Separated from their alcoholic father when the boys were young and unable to support them on her own... Read More ...
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 Street Law Grads “Youngest Experts on What is Right”
On May 7, 2008, the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI) held a graduation ceremony in for third-grade participants in the Street Law Program at School #177 in Baku, Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 Northwest Azerbaijan Leaders Awarded for Community Action
On April 2, 2008 in Gakh, USAID’s Community Development Activity (CDA) hosted an awards ceremony for CDA program participants in northwest Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 School Gym Rehabilitation Project Energizes Community
The community of Hajihuseynli, Guba in northeast Azerbaijan, celebrated the opening of its new school gymnasium in January 2008. USAID partners CHF International and UMID HSSC handed the facility over to the community... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Looks To Expand Consumer Protections
The USAID Trade and Investment Reform Support Program (TIRSP) and the Government of Azerbaijan jointly held the “Protection of Consumer Rights: Realities, Perspectives” Conference on March 18, 2008 in Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 Photo Exhibition Draws Attention to South Caucasus Water Issues
The “Water Without Borders” photo contest, held in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, was recently organized by the USAID South Caucasus Water Program and Eurasia Partnership Foundation to draw public attention to transboundary water issues... Read More ...
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 Health Workers Strengthen Educational Communication Skills
“The most important thing I learned during this workshop was a step-by-step approach for developing communication strategies,” said Zaur Ibrahimov at the closing session of the USAID-sponsored “Basics of Health Communication” workshop... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Rural Enterprise Program Holds Promise of Sustainability
USAID’s Rural Enterprise Competitiveness (RECP) team presented its final results at a reception hosted by the Pragma Corporation on April 7, 2008. USAID Country Coordinator for Azerbaijan Scott Taylor led the presentation... Read More ...
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 Advancing Corporate Social Investment in Azerbaijan
On March 5, 2008, representatives of eleven leading national and multi-national companies and organizations—including AMCHAM, AMFA, Ata Holding, Bank of Baku, Nar Mobile, PRP, Star GSM, StatoilHydro and Zygon Caspian Consulting... Read More ...
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 Exchange Experience Helps NGO Strengthen Youth Programs
Young people in Sheki, Azerbaijan can access business opportunities through a youth entrepreneurship initiative run by Uluchay Charitable Society, a local nongovernmental organization (NGO)... Read More ...
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 Harmonizing Water Quality Monitoring in the South Caucasus
The USAID South Caucasus Water Program is facilitating the harmonization of water-quantity and water-quality monitoring capabilities among Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia... Read More ...
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 Creating Opportunities for Business Educators in Azerbaijan
Through USAID’s School Economics Education (SEE) Program, the Lead Teacher Conference brought together 100 economics teachers, USAID representatives, Chief USAID Economic Advisor and Nobel Laureate Arnold Harberger... Read More ...
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 Narmin’s Story – Rejoining Society through Center’s Support
Imagine being a 12-year-old girl with special needs, no siblings, and two parents with problems of their own – one with mental health issues and the other with serious back problems... Read More ...
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 USAID Project to Monitor Defamation Cases
With the support of USAID and its principal implementing partner, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), Media Rights Institute (MRI)—a subgrantee organization—recently completed the “Monitoring of the Legal Cases on Defamation” project... Read More ...
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 Center Expands One Family’s World
Public opinion often determines people’s choices. That was the case for Ulduz Khanim, an Azerbaijani mother of four children living in Goranboy, Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 USAID’s Parliamentary Program Links Members of Parliament
The development of active and dynamic relationships between constituencies and elected representatives is critical to the enhancement of civil society and democratic institutions in any country... Read More ...
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 USAID, Azerbaijan Officials Partner on Food Security Concerns
The escalating cost of wheat imports in 2007—a year of international shortages—has reignited official attention to food security in Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan Share Economic Management Experience
In October 2007, USAID’s Public Investment Policy (PIP) Project facilitated an educational study tour for a group of six high-level officials from Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Economic Development (MOED) to Astana, Kazakhstan... Read More ...
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 Informal Microfinance Group Becomes “Network of the Year”
The Azerbaijan Micro-finance Association (AMFA) was born in December 2001, following the the country’s first microfinance conference... Read More ...
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 Village Health Festivals Celebrate and Educate in Azerbaijan
Winter is fast approaching in the mountain village of Melhem, Azerbaijan. Fall rains have turned the unpaved villages to mud... Read More ...
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 Successful Rural Business Development Project Draws to Close
On October 31, 2007, USAID hosted a reception in Baku to mark the culmination of its Azerbaijan Business Assistance (ABAD) program, which focused on supporting the growth of rural economic development in targeted regions of Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 ABAD Facilitates Stable Supply Chain Linkages through its Work with Canneries
USAID’s Azerbaijan Business Assistance and Development (ABAD) program has worked with a number of canneries throughout Azerbaijan to improve the efficiency of the supply chain... Read More ...
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 River Basin Serves as Classroom for Environmental Education
Until this summer, high school students in the town of Belokan, Azerbaijan on the country’s border with Georgia, never knew that spending a bright summer day on the river can be not only fun, but also a scientific experience... Read More ...
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 Community Connections Alumna Opens Trade School in Baku
Kubra Aliyeva, an entrepreneur and arts scholar, opened a vocational school and architecture, design and handicrafts business in Baku, Azerbaijan after returning home from a USAID Community Connections Handicraft Production and Marketing Exchange trip... Read More ...
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 USAID Initiates First Workshop for Azerbaijan’s Parliamentary Aides
On September 20, 2007, the first of a series of training-seminars for the newly employed assistants of members of Milli Mejlis was conducted in the Republic of Azerbaijan Milli Mejlis’ deputies building... Read More ...
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 Planning Healthy Pregnancies for a Healthy Future in Azerbaijan
In September 2007, USAID and the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health took an important step forward in helping to ensure the health and prosperity of all families in Azerbaijan by launching a national media campaign... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Students Gain Real-World Business Experience
Each year, the USAID-supported School Economic Education (SEE) program’s most successful students intern with Junior Achievement (JA) partner companies... Read More ...
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 USAID, DOD Renovate Primary School in Azerbaijan
On September 18, 2007, Kish Community in Sheki held the opening ceremony of a primary school renovated with financial assistance provided by USAID’s Community Development Activity and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) European Command... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps Political Parties Create Websites and Databases
Throughout June 2007, 30 representatives from five of Azerbaijan’s main political parties created eight websites after completing a USAID-supported web design course conducted at the IATP center in Baku... Read More ...
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 USAID-Supported Seminar Heightens Awareness of Inflation Issues
As part of USAID’s Alternative Inflation Methodology Development project, the Economic Research Center (ERC)—a respected Azeri economic think-tank—held a widely publicized seminar on August 16, 2007... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Financial-Sector Accountants to Earn Certification
Azerbaijan’s financial sector suffers from an acute shortage of qualified accountants. A survey conducted in 2006 found a single certified accountant in the Azerbaijani banking industry... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Team Wins International Business Competition
The USAID School Economic Education program’s (SEE) alumni team (from the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy) became world champions at the 12th Annual Hewlett Packard Global Business Challenge... Read More ...
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 Training Helps Beekeeper Succeed, Plan to Breed
Beekeeping in Azerbaijan dates back to historic times. Despite long years of involvement in this particular area of agriculture, modern-day beekeeping is beset by obstacles that slow the development of this potential sector... Read More ...
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 USAID Program Helps Azeri Families Stay Together
In Azerbaijan, the causes of institutionalization are wider and more complex than a family’s financial state. Here, institutionalization nearly always follows a crisis situation which causes parents to realize they are unable to handle their child’s disability... Read More ...
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 Workshop to Drive Progress on Azerbaijan’s Health Care Reform
A recently held workshop, Concepts and Possible Directions for Primary Health Care Development in Azerbaijan, must drive progress on heath care reform, according to experts from the World Bank Health Sector Reform Project (HSRP)... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Women’s Participation Exceeds Expectations
Increased efforts to ensure women’s engagement in community activities are credited with the recent turnout for Community Development Council (CDC) elections in the Davudoba community, Guba district, in northern Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 Additional Support to Strengthen Supply Chain Linkages
On July 12 the USAID-supported Azerbaijan Business Assistance and Development Program (ABAD) organized another Proper Sugar Beet Cultivation workshop, as part of continuing collaboration with the Azerbaijan Sugar Production Union... Read More ...
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 Pilot Community OKs Health Reforms
“We are happy that Sheki, in northwestern Azerbaijan, was selected as a pilot district for health care reform,” said Zarina Javadova, Deputy Chief of the District Executive Committee and Head of the District Coordination Group... Read More ...
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 Aid, Communication Key to Avian Influenza Prevention Success
Communication is critical to global avian influenza prevention, according to Dr. Faig Mamedzadeh, Deputy Director for the Republican Anti-Plague Station... Read More ...
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 First Parliamentarian Town Hall Meeting Gets Resounding Approval
In the first meeting of its kind in Jalilabad, community members recently had a chance to voice their concerns about development priorities to their parliamentary representative in an open and public town hall gathering... Read More ...
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 Right to Play Program is a Fun First Step in Engaging Youth
Over the past two months, through USAID, CHF Azerbaijan has partnered with the Canadian organization Right to Play (RTP) to implement three trainings in the regions of Khacmaz, Qax and Zaqatala, in northern Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 US Supports Roundtable on Oil Revenues and Institutional Reforms
With the support from USAID, Eurasia Foundation (EF) and the Entrepreneurship Development Foundation concluded their final one-day roundtable entitled “Oil Revenues and Institutional Reforms” on July 12 in Baku... Read More ...
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 USAID Supports Workshop Sessions on Cost-Benefit Analysis
The USAID Public Investment Policy (PIP) Project conducted four half-day interactive, practical training sessions on cost-benefit analysis in Azerbaijan. The workshops were aimed to deepen understanding of the principles... Read More ...
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 Municipal Official Learns the Value of Transparent Government
Few people enjoy paying taxes, particularly if they don’t know where their money is going. Like many municipalities in Azerbaijan, municipal councilors in Piral had little experience in sharing official information, such as budget plans, with local citizens... Read More ...
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 USAID Aims to Increase Transparency, Access to Capital in Azerbaijan
Use of internationally recognized ratings would increase access to commercial capital needed to grow small and medium enterprises, a critical component of Azerbaijan’s sustained economic growth... Read More ...
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 USAID Online Street Law Program Graduates
In mid June, the USAID-funded ABA Online Street Law Program held a mock trial and graduation ceremony for 64 schoolchildren from Ganja and for 32 students from Mingachavir, both in central Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 Government of Azerbaijan Interested in Turkish Experience
USAID’s Public Investment Policy project, in close collaboration with World Learning Incorporation and support from Turkish International Cooperation Agency, brought a delegation of 16 practitioners... Read More ...
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 Women Teach Neighbors to have Healthy Pregnancies, Safe Deliveries
“Why should I go to gynecologist during pregnancy? I am not the first woman to give birth,” says Najiba, a 23-year-old resident of the village of Bash Zeyzid in Azerbaijan’s Sheki region... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Youth Fund Grows with U.S., UK Support
The Azerbaijan Youth Fund program, implemented by the Eurasia Foundation has recently received additional support from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom to expand its activities through 2009... Read More ...
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 Marketing Tools Are Company’s Best Friend
When establishing the new company Safari to produce cardboard packaging, Executive Director Nadir Huseynov did not expect to have trouble identifying buyers. In fact, there were a number of reasons that he anticipated a viable long term future... Read More ...
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 Sugar Beets Hold Promise for Azerbaijan’s Remote Villages
In June 2007, USAID’s Azerbaijan Business Assistance and Development (ABAD) program, in collaboration with the Azerbaijan Sugar Production Union, a branch of Azersun Holding, organized a workshop for farmers on sugar beet cultivation... Read More ...
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 Exchange Cultivates Farmer’s Interest in Organic Produce
Shohrat Mammadov, Director of Shabran LTD, gained a larger market share by expanding his business to meet a growing demand for organic produce in Azerbaijan. The idea came about as a result of Mammadov’s experience... Read More ...
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 Elected Official’s Self-Advocacy Earns Her Contested Post
USAID’s Community Development Activity (CDA), implemented by CHF International, seeks to increase citizen participation in local governance through training, practical implementation of community-identified projects... Read More ...
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 USAID Hands Over Children and Family Support Centers to Azerbaijan
On July 9, 2007, a signing ceremony transferred the USAID-supported Shulevan Children and Family Support Center from Save the Children to the State Committee for Family, Women and Children’s Issues of the Azerbaijan Republic... Read More ...
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 Center Helps ‘Social Orphans’ Reclaim their Futures
When 14-year-old Sevinj’s parents divorced and subsequently remarried, she felt the negative effects immediately. Her family, originally from Kalbajar, Azerbaijan, became internally-displaced persons... Read More ...
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 Agribusiness Center Helps Company Boost Production, Sales
One of Azerbaijan’s leading fruits and vegetable processing companies turned to the USAID-supported Azerbaijan Agribusiness Center over two years ago for help... Read More ...
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 Street Law Program Engages Azerbaijan’s Youngest Citizens
ABA-Azerbaijan has successfully expanded its USAID-supported Street Law Program to target its youngest audience ever: third-graders. Using games, group activities, and interactive methods, law students are now teaching... Read More ...
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 Forum Raises Development Questions for Northern Azerbaijan
USAID’s Azerbaijan Business Assistance and Development Program (ABAD), in cooperation with the local department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Economic Development, organized a business forum... Read More ...
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 U.S. Supports Azerbaijan’s WTO Accession Process
USAID hosted a reception in cooperation with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Economic Development and Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan to raise public awareness of the importance of World Trade Organization (WTO) accession... Read More ...
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 Hasilli Farm Representatives Share Experience with Other Farmers
The USAID-funded Azerbaijan Business Assistance and Development Program (ABAD), in cooperation with the executive committee of the local agricultural department, organized a Community Day at Hasilli Farm in Jalilabad... Read More ...
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 Entrepreneurs Promote Goods at Baku Food Industry Exhibition
From May 23–25, program staff and four clients from the USAID-funded Azerbaijan Business Assistance and Development Program (ABAD) attended the Food Industry Exhibition in Baku to share program information... Read More ...
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 U.S. Project Saves Lives in Azerbaijan
Every day, the mass media reports on the numbers of people dying or being seriously injured on the road in Azerbaijan. However, many of these deaths could be prevented through timely and professional emergency medical care... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Credit Union Leaders Visit the U.S.
The chiefs of five leading Azerbaijan credit unions and the director of the Azerbaijan Credit Union Association (AKIA) participated in a two-week U.S. study tour designed to help them consider ways of developing the institutional capacity of credit unions back home... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Seeks to Improve Emergency Medicine
Through a recent, multi-million dollar grant, USAID will assist the Ministry of Health in Azerbaijan in developing a modern, evidence-based approach to emergency medicine... Read More ...
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 First Women’s Bar Association Founded in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has one of the lowest rates of female legal professionals in the Newly Independent States, and support to women lawyers is greatly needed. To this end, USAID has been working together with the American Bar Association... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Communities Host National War College Delegation
In April 2007, Zardabi communities in Guba district, northern Azerbaijan hosted a delegation from the National War College, a prestigious leadership training program for American military and civilian leaders... Read More ...
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 NGO Coalitions Announce Plans to Engage Citizens and Government
Six coalitions of NGOs and businesses announced plans to engage citizens and government through campaigns to improve socioeconomic conditions in Azerbaijan at a May 7 Public Dialogue and Advocacy Conference organized by USAID’s Civil Society Project... Read More ...
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 USAID Specialists Nurture Growth of Rural Businesses
Through USAID’s Rural Enterprise Competitiveness project, a team from the Azerbaijan Agribusiness Center (AAC) has worked to help a local fruit and vegetable processor become more modern and efficient, and to increase sales... Read More ...
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 Partnerships Key to Better Health Care in Azerbaijan
USAID’s Health Partnerships Program convened a Partnership Program Dissemination Conference in Baku at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Azerbaijan on May 7 to share ideas and successes... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Government Unveils National Strategy to Combat Corruption
USAID, the Anti-Corruption Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the US Embassy, the US Department of Justice, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe, and the NGO Anti-Corruption Network... Read More ...
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 Parents Consider New Role to Improve Quality of Children’s Education
The Eurasia Foundation (EF) launched a one-day, USAID-supported conference on the “Public Components in School Management and Their Role in the Improvement of the Quality of Education” in Azerbaijan on May 8... Read More ...
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 Product Marketing Helps Furniture Maker Generate Capital for Growth
In 2004, the current owner purchased the land with the intention of returning it to its former purpose. He made some repairs and installed some equipment and the company began making chairs, tables and beds... Read More ...
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 Mollaburhan Proves Quick Study in Community Development
On February 5, the community of Mollaburhan, Azerbaijan had much to celebrate: the first anniversary of its participation in the USAID Community Development Activity (CDA) program, the successful completion of four community development projects... Read More ...
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 CDA Community Lobbies for Development Assistance
Tuleguvan, in Azerbaijan’s Astara region, joined the Community Development Activity (CDA) Program in January 2007 at the encouragement of neighboring CDA villages of Ojakeran and Tese-Kend... Read More ...
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 Modernizing Data Collection to Improve Health Care in Sheki
Dr. Qinyaz Mammadov is the Chief of the Statistical Department at Azerbaijan’s Sheki Central District Hospital, a medical institution that coordinates the work of 66 medical facilities in the surrounding region... Read More ...
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 Vulnerable Youth Learn to Transform their World
Fourteen-year-old Sanubar was sent away once her family could no longer manage her epileptic seizures. An increasing amount of children in Azerbaijan, like Sanubar, are placed in institutions because their families are unable to cope with their children’s special needs... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Communities Seek Partners to Sustain Development Progress
Now in its second year, USAID’s Community Development Activity (CDA) program is engaging Azerbaijan’s citizens and communities in identifying and addressing local needs... Read More ...
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 Helping Azerbaijan’s Children to Survive to Age 5
Azerbaijan has the highest infant and under-five mortality rates of any country in the Europe and Eurasia region. Pneumonia, diarrhea and neonatal conditions pose the greatest threat to young children... Read More ...
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 Avian Influenza TV Spot Reaches Broad Azerbaijani Audience
One of the key components of USAID’s Primary Health Care Strengthening (PHCS) Project coordinated by International Medical Corps is to prevent avian influenza in Azerbaijan through supporting effective communication... Read More ...
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 Energy Stakeholders Train on Tariff Development, Utility Regulation
With the support of USAID, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) delivered a five-day training in May 2007 to the Azerbaijani Tariff Council Staff and other relevant energy sector stakeholders... Read More ...
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 In Cultural Shift, Girls’ Education Becomes Community Priority
In mid-2006, Hasanly village in the Masally region of southern Azerbaijan joined USAID's Community Development Activity program, which promotes civic participation by working with communities and local governments... Read More ...
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 Rural Juice Maker Boosts Exports
USAID’s Azerbaijan Agribusiness Center (AAC) Specialist Mirnail Mirsalahov was recently contacted by a rural beverage producer for help with entering the international health juice market... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Government Interested in Norwegian Experience
The USAID-supported Public Investment Policy Project, in close collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Baku and the World Learning Institute (WLI), brought a delegation of senior officials from the Government of Azerbaijan to Norway... Read More ...
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 Electricity Quadruples Sales for Local Flour Mill
Ilyas Jafarov, owner of the only flour mill in the Jafarhanli village of Jalilabad, Azerbaijan, has provided three primary services to surrounding farmers for nearly a decade: flour milling, wheat and barley seed cleaning, and mixed feed production... Read More ...
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 Community Development Expands in Azerbaijan
On March 27-28, CHF held three large scale outreach meetings in two Southern (Yardymly, Lerik) and in one Northern (Balaken) border districts of Azerbaijan under the auspices of USAID’s Community Development Activity... Read More ...
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 Expert Advice Yields Big Profits for Tomato Processor
By sharing technical and marketing expertise, USAID’s Azerbaijan Agribusiness Center (AAC) has helped scores of rural producers and processors dramatically increase their sales. This is one story... Read More ...
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 USAID’s Project Standardizes Municipal Development
In early April, Eurasia Foundation (EF) Azerbaijan, through USAID’s Strengthening Municipal Budget Transparency Initiatives and Increasing Public Participation project office, hosted a workshop and presentation... Read More ...
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 Roundtable on Oil Revenues and State Expenditures
On April 5, the Eurasia Foundation and the Entrepreneurship Development Foundation held a one-day, USAID-supported roundtable on “Oil Revenues and State Expenditures” to examine transparency and efficiency... Read More ...
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 Youth Fund Hits Stride in Azerbaijan
Thirty-four young Azerbaijanis ages 16-30 gathered on February 19-20 in Novkhani, Azerbaijan to participate in the third workshop of Eurasia Foundation-run (EF) Youth Fund program... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Imports Irrigations Innovations from Israel
Twenty-three Azerbaijani nationals traveled to Israel March 4-18 to participate in a USAID-funded course, “Irrigation Systems for Intensive Crop Production,” delivered in collaboration with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs... Read More ...
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 USAID Supports Child-run Advocacy Group Elections
On April 5, Azerbaijani children at Children and Family Support Centers in the Mingechevir (central), Goranboy (southern) and Shuvelan (urban) districts of Azerbaijan held elections to select representatives to self-advocacy groups... Read More ...
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 Isolated Community Receives its First Legal Clinic
On March 12, 2007, the law school at Azerbaijan’s Naxchivan State University celebrated the opening of its first legal clinic, an activity supported by USAID through the American Bar Association... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Media Students Learn to Ask Tough Questions
“Tell Me” is a bi-monthly production of a local USAID media project that provides opportunities for students from the nine Baku-based journalism faculties to hone their skills as future news correspondents... Read More ...
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 Building Distribution Helps to Advance Media Sector in Azerbaijan
In late 2004, Khanhuseyn Aliyev came to the attention of USAID’s Media Advancement project, which was seeking a way to build Azerbaijan’s newspaper industry by improving distribution... Read More ...
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 US, International Partners Aid Azerbaijan with Election Reforms
Under its USAID-supported Election Administration Assistance Program, IFES works with the Azerbaijani authorities and international and local partners—including the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (COE)... Read More ...
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 USAID Emergency Medicine Program Receives High Marks
In an effort to shore up its regional social and economic development program, the Government of Azerbaijan is focusing on improving emergency medicine at its hospitals... Read More ...
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 USAID Supports a Azerbaijani Processor to Expand Product Line
In its first year of operation, a fruit and vegetable company processed 400 tons of pickled cucumber and purchased 50 tons of aseptic tomato paste from a large canning factory in the area for repackaging into 720 gram jars... Read More ...
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 JA Azerbaijan Hosts ‘School Business Day’ Student Competitions
Junior Achievement (JA) Azerbaijan recently held its Student Business Day encompassing three simultaneous activities: the finals of the “Student Companies” project competition; a student product fair... Read More ...
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 Broad Exposure Yields Big Sales for Small Azerbaijani Jam Maker
A small jam maker and hazelnut processor in northwest Azerbaijan first approached USAID for help in building its business back in 2004. The company relied on manual production carried out by just 25 employees... Read More ...
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 Program Boosts TV News Production, Educates Viewers on Local Issues
“Problems/Solutions” is a USAID-sponsored television production conceived by a local television station manager in Tovuz and implemented by IREX to explore issues that affect Azerbaijan’s citizens while honing the skills of local journalists, camerapersons and editors... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Student Economics Team Ranks Third Worldwide
USAID’s School Economics Education Program (SEE) student-team from Zangi Lyceum in Baku placed third at the prestigious Hewlett Packard Global Business Challenge (HPGBC) which drew more than 1,000 teams from 68 nations... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps Furniture Maker Market Product, Find Suppliers
Since beginning operations in 1999, a modern furniture maker in Bilesuvar, central Azerbaijan, has been specializing in the manufacture of furniture that comply with European standards and tastes... Read More ...
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 USAID Boosts Azerbaijan’s Economic Research Capacity
The USAID-supported Public Investment Policy (PIP) Project is a technical assistance project which helps the Government of Azerbaijan to develop its capacity in long and medium term investment planning and programming... Read More ...
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 Campaign Emphasizes Personal Responsibility for Health
“Our Health is Our Responsibility” is a simple but powerful and important message - and one that recently was chosen as a slogan for Azerbaijan’s national health communication campaign... Read More ...
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 Citizens Empowered Through Community Development Success
In the village of Yengiyan, Sheki, the winds of change are blowing. The village's Community Development Council (CDC) is promoting the welfare of its citizens while recruiting two nearby villages into the USAID Community Development Activity (CDA) program... Read More ...
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 Local Bread Producer Sees Sales Rise
In recent years, a small bread producer in Goranboy, central Azerbaijan, has lost market share because of its inability to keep pace with the changing preferences of consumers... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Makes Great Strides in Avian Flu Prevention
“Azerbaijan has made remarkable progress in preventing outbreaks of avian influenza over the past six months,” stated Dr. Victor Gasimov, Ministry of Health Chief of Sanitary and Epidemiological Sector... Read More ...
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 Civil Service Employees Receive Public Investment Training
The USAID-supported Public Investment Policy (PIP) Project, jointly with the Azerbaijan Center of Economic Reforms (CER), successfully completed the fourth round of the formal Training Program... Read More ...
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 Rehab Services Help Disabled Youngsters Achieve Full Potential
Boyukagha Huseynov is an 8-year old child from Shuvelan in urban Azerbaijan with right spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy. For thousands of children like Boyukagha, disabilities interfere with normal daily function... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps Sunflower Processor Boost Sales, Expand Operations
USAID’s Azerbaijan Agribusiness Center (AAC) Account Manager Elvin Agayev began working a small, rural-based processor of sunflower products – oil, cakes, and seeds – in December 2005... Read More ...
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 Alumnae Use Handicraft Businesses to Help Others Succeed
In December, USAID Community Connections Handicraft Production and Marketing Exchange alumnae Humaya Mammadova and Gulshan Aliyeva opened two new workshops in Quba (north) and Fuzuli (central Azerbaijan)... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Community Takes Ownership of Environmental Issue
There is an Azerbaijani proverb that says: “Every man must build a house, bring up a son and plant tree plant in his life”. In Azerbaijan, taking care of nature and one’s family is part of life... Read More ...
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 Attracting Investments to Azerbaijan’s Microfinance Sector
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent one of the most viable opportunities to grow and diversify the economy in Azerbaijan. However, SME growth potential is severely limited by a lack of access to finance and an underdeveloped and undercapitalized banking sector... Read More ...
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 Menarchik Visits Caucasus For First Overseas Mission
In February, USAID Acting Assistant Administrator for Europe & Eurasia Doug Menarchik embarked on his first visit to the field, traveling to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkmenistan to meet with government representatives... Read More ...
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 Agro-Business Center Helps Beverage Producer Boost Sales
A local beverage producer which had achieved limited success across Azerbaijan turned to the USAID-funded Azerbaijan Agro-Business Center (AAC) for help in penetrating Ganja, the second largest market in the country... Read More ...
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 Street Law Program Helps Students Grow
USAID’s Street Law Program, implemented by ABA-CEELI, provides second- and third-year law students with the opportunity to learn how it feels to be on the other side of the podium... Read More ...
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 Following the Road to Success
The Tekle village is located in the Masally region of Southern Azerbaijan. As is typical in the post-Soviet collapse, basic infrastructure services such as road and water supply were in desperate need of repair... Read More ...
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 Working Toward Community Integration of Disabled Children
In Azerbaijan, 18 out of 1,000 children are disabled and face discrimination and social exclusion with little or no support for them and their families. Anar Khalilov, a 16-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy is one of these children... Read More ...
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 Support Center Teaches Children, Teens Self-Sufficiency
In Azerbaijan, institutionalization is the only form of support offered by the government for thousands of children whose families are in crisis... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Citizen Participation in Decision Making
In January 2005, a landslide in Baku brought public concerns over the safety of construction to the forefront of Azerbaijani politics. At the heart of the issue were the difficulties average citizens face in having a voice in city planning processes that directly affect them... Read More ...
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 Robust Public Policy Dialogue a First in Azerbaijan
As Azerbaijan enters its second decade of transition, the government, private sector, and non-governmental organizations continue to explore approaches to fostering active participation in setting and implementing policies... Read More ...
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 Political Parties Hold First Voter Surveys
On December 13-14, sixty activists from two political parties in Azerbaijan conducted pilot surveys among some 200 people in Imishli city in southern Azerbaijan to learn about voters’ views on local issues and political parties... Read More ...
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 Activist Community Celebrates Success in Municipal Elections
The community of Hesenly in southern Azerbaijan was well-known during the Soviet times for writing complaint letters to central Moscow. Its residents were called “truth-tellers” or “complaint-writers” and there is an anecdote saying... Read More ...
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 USAID Boosts Emergency Care in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, one of the most oil-rich countries in the world, has recently experienced a lot of positive changes in social sector development. However, in other sectors there is still an urgent need for reform and rehabilitation... Read More ...
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 Exchange Alumna Creates Path for Environmental Studies
Gulheyran Rahimova, Head of International Academic Education Programs at Baku State University, drew upon her experience in the USAID-funded Community Connections program to create a partnership with Jackson State University... Read More ...
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 Groomed for Success
Confidence breeds success and, in turn, can help a business thrive. Sevinj Aliyeva, owner of a beauty salon in Gazakh, a small town in north-western Azerbaijan, knows this firsthand... Read More ...
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 In Azerbaijan, Religious Leader Takes on Public Health Role
After the tragic death of a close friend’s wife following an abortion three years ago, Elnur Ismaylov, a religious leader in his local mosque, became deeply troubled by the high number of unwanted pregnancies couples terminate as a result of not using contraception... Read More ...
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 USAID Inspires New Hope for Disabled Children
In Azerbaijan, most disabled children are diagnosed as “unable to learn” and denied access to the school system. Only a small proportion of disabled children attend mainstream school... Read More ...
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 Idea Marketplace Strengthens NGO Participation in Corruption Fight
On September 30, Albanians thronged the Tirana International Hotel, the venue for the country’s first NGO Marketplace. In the hotel’s lobby, conference rooms and ballroom, a diverse collection of Albania’s civic groups... Read More ...
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 Rural Credit Project Yields Success for Azerbaijan’s Farmers
Elshad Bayramov, a small-scale dairy farmer, vastly improved his operations with the help of loans totaling $16,000 from CredAgro, a rural lending institution established under the Azerbaijan Rural Credit (ARC) Project... Read More ...
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 Demand-Driven Approach Bears Fruit for Watermelon Farmers
One of the biggest problems facing watermelon growers in rural Azerbaijan is selling their product. Every year, farmers raise thousands of tons of watermelons... Read More ...
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 First-Ever Presidential Election Delivers Victory for Student Action Committee in Baku
The Student Action Committee (SAC) at School 177 in Baku, Azerbaijan organized it’s first-ever Student Action Committee presidential election in March 2005... Read More ...
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 Improving Child Survival Neighbor-to-Neighbor
From neighbor to neighbor, over tea and across fences, the women of Siriq village shared the news that young, 19-year-old Pakiza was having trouble breastfeeding her baby... Read More ...
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 Displaced Children Receive Immunizations in Yeni Karki
Yeni Karki, a small village in the autonomous republic of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan was established as a home for internally displaced families (IDPs) by the government... Read More ...
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 Tolerance for Tots: USAID Funds Regional TV Program for Kids in the Caucasus
On January 29, 2005, the USAID-funded Children’s Tolerance Education project (CTEP) began broadcasting an innovative new television program for children in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 First Financing Resource Guide Published for Azerbaijan Businesses
In May 2004, the Azerbaijan Agribusiness Center released The Complete Guide to Financing in Azerbaijan. This is the first comprehensive financing resource guide available to Azerbaijan business community... Read More ...
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 Informed Analysis by AAC Assures Optimized Investment Decisions by Azeri Businesses Equipment Upgrades
The Azerbaijan Agribusiness Center assured that Azeri agribusiness companies maximized their business investments by assisting them in gathering and assessing critical information on construction and equipment before funds were expended... Read More ...
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 Samed Vurgun Community, Agjabedi, Azerbaijan: Self-Reliance Built Through USAID Support
The past fifteen years have been a very challenging time for the people of Azerbaijan. Located between Russia and Iran in the heart of the Caucasus region, the country has long been a crossroads of commerce and culture. Shortly after gaining independence from the Soviet Union in October 1991, Azerbaijan was soon drawn into a devastating three-year territorial conflict with neighboring Armenia over Nagorno Garabagh, a mountainous region in the west of the country. When hostilities ceased in early 1994, Armenian forces occupied Nagorno-Karabagh and a wide swath of surrounding area, accounting for nearly 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory. Read More ...
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