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USAID and IESC Set to Expand Access to Agriculture Finance in Tanzania
January 18, 2024
IESC is excited to announce the launch of the new three-year USAID Agri-Finance Project to improve access to finance for smallholders, women, youth, and micro, small, and medium (including large) enterprises (MSMiLs) in Tanzania. The $3 million project has a particular emphasis on expanding investments in priority technologies, including climate-smart…
read moreIESC Commemorates 60 Years of Impact
January 1, 2024
As the calendar turns to 2024, we are thrilled to commemorate the 60th anniversary of IESC’s founding in 1964. While much has changed throughout the world during these sixty years, what has not changed is IESC’s focus on sustainable economic development and making a lasting difference in the lives of the people and communities we serve.
We were founded by a group of American…
read moreNovember 17, 2023
On November 9, 2023, IESC’s President & CEO David Hartingh and Associate Vice President Sujeewa De Alwis hosted a reunion in Colombo, Sri Lanka of former IESC staff and Sri Lankan business leaders who were program beneficiaries of the IESC implemented and USAID funded Technology Initiative for the Private Sector (TIPS) program from 1991 to 2000. TIPS was a $17 million flagship USAID program, working in conjunction…
read moreOctober 19, 2023
IESC is excited to announce that it has been awarded a new five-year USAID Farmer-to-Farmer program focused on expanding access to agricultural finance in Kenya, Tanzania, and Liberia. Building on the success and impact IESC achieved over the last five years, the new Farmer-to-Farmer Access to Finance Program (F2F A2F) will deliver targeted volunteer technical assistance to financial institutions, smallholder farmers,…
read moreAugust 25, 2023
Volunteers have been a critical part of IESC’s mission since 1964. The Frank Pace Award, named for one of IESC’s founders, is given each year to a volunteer expert, or team of experts, who performed the most outstanding project in the previous year.
This year’s recipients are Ganza Mfumya and Allyn Lamb, who volunteered with our USAID Farmer-to-Farmer Access to Finance Program in Tanzania. Ganza and Allyn provided…
read moreAugust 25, 2023
Established in 2013, the Tarek Nabhan International Achievement Award recognizes staff members in our overseas offices who regularly go above and beyond their normal job responsibilities to achieve excellence. The award is named after Tarek Nabhan in recognition of his 31 years of service to IESC. One winner and two runners-up are selected each year.
For 2022, we honored Dr. Silvia La Osa, IESC Sanitary and…
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