Laos programs / USAID Microenterprise
(Laos): Laos Microenterprise strengthens the competitiveness of agricultural microenterprises in Laos, which remain uncompetitive and poorly integrated into domestic and regional markets. IATI activity description (US-GOV-1-72048618CA00007)
Key awd:72048618CA00007
24 facts shown; 0 unconfirmed links; 0 support mechanisms (not programs); 17 documents cite this program.
The one-paragraph answer: years, implementer, funder and purpose, each from document metadata.
(Laos): Laos Microenterprise strengthens the competitiveness of agricultural microenterprises in Laos, which remain uncompetitive and poorly integrated into domestic and regional markets. With two-thirds of the labor force working in the agriculture sector, strengthening agricultural microenterprises and improving market access will contribute to Laos' Journey to Self-Reliance as private sector investment and trade bolster this agrarian country's capacity to manage and fund its own development solutions. At the same time, agribusiness and agricultural value chain investments create opportunities for U.S. businesses seeking to diversify their overseas production base -- creating a potentially cost-effective entry point into the rapidly growing ASEAN economic community.The activity works with public and private sector partners to equip agricultural microenterprises and farmers with the skills needed to respond to market needs and access technology and facilities, while also assisting them to reduce operations costs by enhancing their negotiating power and establishing reliable linkages between microenterprise groups and markets. Laos Microenterprise also helps microenterprises gain
Source: IATI activity description, US-GOV-1-72048618CA00007 (2018). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.
Operated in: Laos. 2 other countries are only tagged on documents.
Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents
not in the map yet: no district, region or facility is named for this program yet; only Malawi and Guatemala have place data so far
No district, region or facility is named in this program's documents yet. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far. Towns and natural features are not drawn.
Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. Source: document tags, scope rule
Operated in Laos, 2019 to 2023 17 sources
Scope: country: Laos. Signed by a regional office, but the documents name one country. Medium confidence.
How sure we are: 0.75.
Basis: read from a record field
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
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When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. Source: award and document years
Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.
Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. Source: initiative records, start year
Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. Source: award and document records
| Name | Role | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACDI/VOCA | implementer Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. | 2019 to 2023 | Stated in a document read from a record field | 15 sources |
None recorded. Evaluation studies linked to this program are listed under Evaluations and lessons.
Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 72048618CA00007 (cooperative agreement, FY2018) | 2019 to 2023 | Stated in a document read from a record field | 17 sources |
Basis: read from a record field
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) | 2021 | Stated in a document |
Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. Source: DEC document tags
Sector profile (computed): Agriculture: agribusiness, processing, marketing, agricultural finance 49%; Agriculture: livestock, animal health, fisheries, aquaculture 13%; Economic opportunity (microenterprise, jobs, skills, poverty reduction) 9%
DEC topic and subject tags. They describe the documents, not what the program was. Each tag opens its evidence in the drawer.
Programs worth reading next, by topic, implementer, country and years. Similar by facets (topic, implementer, country, years) and, when available, description. It says the programs look alike, not how they are related in time. Source: catalog facets
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Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows, evaluations and lessons. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.
Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library
| 2019 to 2023 |
| Stated in a document |
| 15 sources |
| Asia | 2020 | Stated in a document | 3 sources |
None recorded for this program. A counterpart appears only when a document names the government body and its role.
| 3 sources |
| ACDI/VOCA | 2023 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| USAID. Regional Development Mission - Asia (RDMA) | 2019 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
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| Laos | 2019 | Stated in a document read from a record field | 1 source |