Africa

Advancing Peace and Recovery in Northern Uganda

Casals & Associates is assisting the government of Uganda with recovery and development efforts in northern Uganda through a $37.2 million task order under the firm’s Support Which Implements Fast Transitions II (SWIFT II) Indefinite Quantity Contract. SWIFT II is a quick-response contracting... Learn more

Building Anticorruption Institutions in Madagascar

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to Madagascar awarded Casals & Associates a two-year contract in November 2006 to implement the USAID Anti-Corruption Initiative (ACI) in Madagascar. The goal of the project was to reduce corruption in Madagascar by: Strengthening the... Learn more

Conducting a Corruption Survey in Madagascar

Casals & Associates was awarded a contract to assist Madagascar’s Conseil Supérieur de Lutte Contre La Corruption (CSLCC), the nation’s federal office charged with fighting corruption. Under World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development and United Nations Development Programme funding,... Learn more

Curbing Corruption and Encouraging Fiscal Responsibility in Malawi

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracted Casals & Associates in 2006 to lead a $7.7 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Country Program in Malawi. The overall goal of the two-year program was to strengthen government integrity to support Malawian efforts... Learn more

Leading Mainstreaming Anticorruption Workshops

Casals & Associates, Inc. leads workshops on Mainstreaming Anticorruption at USAID Missions throughout the world. Beginning in Central America with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, the firm has gone on to bring the mainstreaming message to the Dominican Republic, the Ukraine and missions in... Learn more

Nigeria – Promoting Transparent Government

Casals & Associates managed an anticorruption project for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nigeria between 2000 and 2004. The project involved developing and implementing three World Bank Institute surveys on corruption as well as follow-on policy workshops and a multilingual... Learn more

Strengthening Government Financial Management in Ghana

Casals & Associates was awarded a World Bank-funded contract in the late 1990s to provide technical assistance to the government of Ghana on the proposed reform of the the country’s Public Financial Management System as a means of preventing corruption. Areas of reform evaluated included the following: Revenue... Learn more

Strengthening USAID’s Nutrition Communications Programs

Casals & Associates conducted a technical review of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Research and Development Office of Nutrition’s global nutrition communications programs. This analysis involved an extensive literature review and detailed interviews with USAID... Learn more

Worldwide – Conducting Population, Health and Nutrition Surveys Worldwide

Casals & Associates helped developing countries collect and use data to monitor and evaluate population, health and nutrition programs through our work on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Measure Phase II/Demographic and Health Surveys (Measure DHS) program. Under a subcontract... Learn more

Worldwide – Encouraging Global Anticorruption and Good Governance Efforts (ENGAGE)

Under the Encouraging Global Anticorruption and Good Governance Efforts (ENGAGE) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Casals & Associates provides a wide array of support services encompassing short- and long-term technical assistance... Learn more

Worldwide – European Commission Framework Contract: Culture, Governance and Home Affairs

Casals & Associates, Inc. (Casals), as a subcontractor to Business and Strategies in Europe (B&S Europe), a Belgium-based consultancy firm, was selected in August 2009 for a European Commission good governance contract. The award is a “Framework Contract Lot 7: Culture, Governance and Home... Learn more

Worldwide – Global Civil Society Strengthening Program Cooperative Agreement

Casals & Associates is a subcontractor to Counterpart International on a five-year U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) cooperative agreement to implement the “Global Civil Society Strengthening” program. With a funding ceiling of about $200 million over the life of the program,... Learn more

Worldwide – Scholarly Research on Nutrition

Casals & Asociates conducted several communications assignments focused on international special populations for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Research and Development Office of Nutrition. These assignments included three monographs describing the implementation... Learn more

Worldwide – Support Which Implements Fast Transition (SWIFT) III

Under the Support Which Implements Fast Transition III (SWIFT III) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC), Casals & Associates works with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) to support U.S. foreign policy objectives by helping local partners advance... Learn more

Worldwide – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Long-Term Agreement

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) awarded Casals & Associates, Inc. (C&A) and its team member, Claro & Associates, Inc., a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) enabling UNDP’s more than 150 offices around the world to access the team’s professional management services. An LTA—like... Learn more