Inter-American Foundation 🇺🇸

Propelling localized development across #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean. Following, RTs, and links ≠ endorsement.

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Season's greetings from the Inter-American Foundation!

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These annual audits consistently find the IAF's practices to be effective & in compliance. ✅

The IAF also goes above & beyond U.S. audit requirements, independently auditing all grants over $125,000. 💵

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Commitment to public service, ethical practices, compliance, & accountability to taxpayers is at the heart of our work. The USAID Office of the Inspector General audits🔍the IAF every year on our financial statements📊, government charge card program 💳, & compliance w/ FISMA.💻

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BLPA also works on disease monitoring and strict regulations for sale and movement of cattle in and out of Belize. This protects U.S. agriculture by monitoring pests that could affect the U.S. cattle and beef industry. 🐄🐄🐄

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🚜 When farmers in our region monitor and control crop and livestock diseases, they pose less of a risk to American farmers. We support farmers who are doing this necessary work.

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🐄🐄🐄 A recently-funded IAF grantee Belize Livestock Producers’ Association (BLPA), a national organization representing 6,000 small-scale livestock farmers, aims to improve pasture management for cattle.

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⚖️ According to the public prosecutor’s office, working with NAM increased early reporting, especially among younger women. It also helped public institutions provide more comprehensive and specialized care and service to survivors of violence.

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IAF grants promote long-term sustainability, as shown by former grantee organizations thriving decades after graduating from IAF funding.♀️For example, Núcleo de Apoyo a la Mujer (NAM), an organization we funded in 1994, is now a nationally-recognized organization in the DR.

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☮️ Finally, NAM also strengthened civil society responses to violence and launched the Dominican Republic’s first peer support organization for survivors of intimate partner and domestic violence, Fundación Mujeres Empoderadas Abriendo Caminos.

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👮 This economic development project contributed to securing our region from international drug trafficking. By strengthening agriculture in a region where coca production is common, El Ceibo provides farmers an ongoing alternative to fueling the illegal cocaine trade.

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IAF grantee organizations continue thriving after our funding ends. IAF representatives visit organizations before funding them to check they are as strong in person as they look on paper & to assess their capacity to ensure Americans receive a return on their investment.

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🇺🇸 U.S. companies benefit from El Ceibo’s products: as of 2019, El Ceibo boasted ~$9 million in sales and its products were sold in at least 15 U.S. states, including in more than 230 small businesses and in Whole Foods stores.

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🕊️ About 70% apply the vital skills they learned to transform violence and conflict into positive outcomes almost daily.
👮 As a result, 55% have improved their own security and that of their community organizations.

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✝️ The IAF funds an organization founded by the Catholic Church to address violent conflict in parishes throughout Mexico, with a particular emphasis on long-standing conflicts in the southern state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala.

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⚖️ About 60% belong to a local group to find justice for loved ones murdered or disappeared through transnational criminal activity.