Guyana: USAID Program Profile
| Budget
|
FY 2005
Actual
|
FY 2006
Current
|
FY 2007
Requested
|
| Total Program
Funds |
$13,056,000 |
$14,104,000 |
$14,144,000 |
The United States Agency for International Development’s
(USAID) assistance to Guyana focuses on HIV awareness and
prevention, improving the climate for private investment,
and strengthening democracy and governance.
Guyana HIV/AIDS Youth Project: This objective is working
to improve prevention efforts and slow the rate of new infections.
Guyana has the second highest HIV prevalence rate in Latin
America and the Caribbean. USAID works with local non-governmental
organizations to provide a framework for a more consolidated,
focused approach to working with youth outside the formal
school setting. The project emphasizes behavior change intervention
through a series of mini-campaigns with a cluster of high
profile and interactive events, street theater, outreach,
peer education, referral services, and provision of condoms.
Improved Climate for Private Investment: USAID’s
work in this area is expanding opportunities for the poor
by fostering macroeconomic policies that promote equity, fiscal
stability, foreign and domestic investment, exports, labor-intensive
growth and job creation. Activities include increasing capacity
to implement economic policy for more equitable growth, improving
the climate for private investment, strengthening the capacity
of the private sector to influence public policy, and increasing
services available to support small and micro-enterprises.
Democracy and Governance: This program seeks to strengthen
key institutions and processes required for a vibrant, responsive
and participatory democracy. The focus is on an improved and
more informed law-making and regulatory process, increased
capacity to adjudicate cases in a timely manner, a sustained
institutional capacity to conduct free and fair elections,
increased civil society influence on public policy, and strengthened
local governance.
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