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Yesterday, DAI’s VP for Environment and Energy, Jette Findsen, presented at the Asia Clean Energy Forum in Manila on Using Emerging Technologies to Deliver More Energy Efficient Buildings, Industries, and Homes. This session covered our experience supporting innovators and their technologies in two cities in Southeast Asia, the conditions necessary for ideas to thrive, and recommendations for how to scale. The theme of this year’s conference – accelerating the clean energy transition and ensuring energy security and affordability – is timely. New Delhi just recorded their hottest day on record. Across the region, industrialization powered by fossil fuels has fed climate change, leading to increased pollution, temperatures, flooding, and natural disasters. So, what is needed to scale innovative solutions? In short: •     Crowdsourced, novel ideas •     Catalytic funding for pilot demonstrations •     An adequate enabling environment (lowering the risk of investment) •     Private capital flows "It was encouraging to hear fellow panelists speak about how to design energy efficiency programs that catalyze systems change," said Jette. "The speakers from Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Energy Agency (IEA), and National Renewable Energy Laboratory all noted an increasing interest by national governments in supporting energy efficiency policies and incentives, including in Central Asia, where there is a large potential but historically low interest in efficiency improvements." #DAIClimateFutures #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #ACEF2024 Jane Clifford Jeanne Ellis Georgia Iordanescu Walter Weaver Rob Ryan-Silva Ella Hoxha Noemi Danao-Schroeder Kevin Carlucci Aaron Hoagland James Naughton David Morgado Melanie Slade Younkyu Seo Ramola Naik Singru Derina Man and Shivam Gupta

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay! In Vietnam, USAID’s Sustainable Forest Management Project is promoting the World Health Organization’s Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP-WHO) guidelines to grow and use medicinal plants. This helps protect the environment by promoting the use of organic fertilizers that reduce soil damage and conserving water. Healthy soil acts as an underground carbon sink, locking in greenhouse gases that would otherwise enter the atmosphere, indicating its vital role in reducing the effects of #ClimateChange. It also improves the sustainability of forest use which increases jobs for local people and reduces pressure on forest resources. The project has trained nearly 2,000 people from forest dependent communities on GACP-WHO standards and provided households with more than 200,000 high-quality medicinal plant seedlings, contributing to the livelihoods of 4,000+ people. This is building environment resilience—today and for the future. Learn more about the project here: https://buff.ly/3V3BxLT #MedicinalPlants #LandRestoration #SustainableForests #DAIClimateFutures Kimberly Keeton Jette Findsen Kevin Carlucci Abraham Guillen Rob Ryan-Silva Clarence Cabañero

It's #WorldEnvironmentDay. Read in our latest article what the USAID Karnali Water Activity in Nepal is doing to mitigate against the effects of #ClimateChange and drought in their region. Santosh Khanal Darren Saywell Pralhad Gairapipli Jeanne Ellis Jette Findsen Heather Skilling Neil Patel Rob Ryan-Silva Nilu Basnyat #DAIClimateFutures #GenerationRestoration

Moody's Ratings upgraded the Government of Jordan’s credit rating. “This is the first sovereign credit upgrade for Jordan in 21 years,” said Minister of Finance Mohammad Al-Ississ. “It is an international acknowledgment of Jordan’s ambitious reform agenda, which has significantly boosted our economic growth.” The credit rating upgrade was facilitated in part by two DAI projects in Jordan. USAID Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Please help us welcome our 2024 internship program participants! During a 10-week program, interns will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience primarily focused on supporting USAID programming and initiatives. They will work with our teams in gender and social inclusion, economic growth, governance, business development, talent acquisition, monitoring and evaluation, and project support in our Central America and Mexico and Ukraine portfolios. Bobby Jefferson Precious C. Brooks Kathryn Erskine Bethany G. #DAIcareers

DAI's Jette Findsen will be presenting at this year's Asia Clean Energy Forum in Manila on Using emerging technologies to deliver more energy-efficient buildings, industries, and homes. The presentation forms part of a panel discussion on energy efficiency initiatives and lessons learned for meeting the goal of doubling energy efficiency by 2030: https://buff.ly/44ZWE68 Many countries have signed up to meet this impressive goal but it’s hard to do so quickly. Jette will be talking about lessons learned from the USAID VUES project on how to pilot and scale up new technologies for improving energy efficiency in buildings in order to meet the 2030 goal. For more information on the USAID VUES project: https://buff.ly/454h65O Walter Weaver Jeanne Ellis Jane Clifford Rob Ryan-Silva Ella Hoxha Noemi Danao-Schroeder Kevin Carlucci Aaron Hoagland James Naughton #DAIClimateFutures #CleanEnergy #ACEF2024 Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Please help us welcome Timothy Meyer to the #Governance sector. Timothy has worked at the nexus of law and development for more than a decade. At DAI, Timothy supports the Security, Transparency, Accountability, and Rule of Law practice. In this role, Timothy is supporting business development, knowledge capture, and technical implementation around access to justice, with an emphasis on people-centered justice approaches. Timothy is a lawyer barred in Illinois and also served as a women’s education and empowerment volunteer in the US Peace Corps in Togo.

The USAID Pakistan Regional Economic Integration Activity (PREIA) recently organized the Pakistan-Kazakhstan Trade Opportunities Forum for Women-Owned Businesses in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Featuring a cohort of 26 female entrepreneurs, the event aimed to enhance access and exposure of businesswomen to potential trade opportunities. The initiative enabled attendees to gather market-relevant information, identify potential trade opportunities, and strengthen direct business-to-business and business-to-government linkages with counterparts in Kazakhstan. By fostering dialogue and collaboration between Pakistani and Kazakh business communities, the initiative aimed to promote economic growth, advance gender-inclusive trade practices, and enhance the competitiveness of women-owned enterprises. More about PREIA: https://buff.ly/3X3VYej

As #cybersecurity threats continue to exploit vulnerabilities in our digital spaces, we must experiment with new recruitment approaches, deploy creative outreach methods, and push boundaries on what it means to inspire, discover, and retain cyber talent.

Join us on June 13 for a panel discussion on Catalyzing Business Growth through Accelerated EU Accession. We will discuss lessons from DAI’s 20 years of supporting Candidate Countries with accession reforms. Click here to register: https://buff.ly/3x9aXJ4 #EU I European Commission I #Accession I #Ukraine I #EconomicGrowth I #Governance I #SMEs