Democracy and Governance
Casals & Associates continues helping to advance Transparency and Good Governance in El Salvador
Casals & Associates, a DynCorp International company, works as an implementing partner in USAID’s Transparency and Governance Project in El Salvador. On March 12, 2013, the Casals El Salvador team supported the launch of the Salvadoran Industrial Association (ASI)’s Ethical Standards guide, a... Learn more
USAID Extends ENGAGE Indefinite Quantity Contract with Casals & Associates
On March 13, 2013, Casals and Associates received formal notification that the Encourage Global Anticorruption and Good Governance Efforts (ENGAGE) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) ordering period has been extended to March 13, 2015. The extension of the ordering period will allow USAID to use... Learn more
Casals & Associates Continues Assiting Timor-Leste in its Efforts to Combat Corruption
Casals & Associates, Inc. (C&A) continues implementing a USAID/MCC program in Timor-Leste aimed to reduce corruption that it is providing successful results. Transparency International (TI) in its 2012 Corruption Perception Index ranked Timor Leste in the 113th position while last year it was... Learn more
Casals & Associates, Inc. and the Organization of American States (OAS) signed Memorandum of Understanding
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (“GS/OAS”), represented by its Secretary General, Jose Miguel Insulza, and Casals & Associates, Inc. (“Casals”) represented by its Vice President — International Development, Jeanine Zeitvogel, signed on October... Learn more
Anti-Corruption Technical Assistance: A Growth Industry for Better or Worse
Jeanine Zeitvogel, VP of Casals & Associates, Inc. will be the speaker at the October 4, 2012 (Noon-2:00pm) event organized by TraCCC (Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center of George Mason University School of Puclic Policy). The problem of corruption is as old as government itself.... Learn more
Casals Rolls Out a Virtual Training Program for Salvadoran Government Institutions
On Friday August17th 2012, at the training facilities of the Presidential Building, the Undersecretary of Transparency and Anticorruption in cooperation with the Presidency’s Innovation and Technology Unit launched the first Virtual Government Training Program (VGTP). This program will reach... Learn more
El Salvador Democracy Strengthening Program carried out successful Ethics Training
On July 27th and 30th of 2012 the USAID Democracy Strengthening Program (DSP) implementing since 2005 in El Salvador by Casals & Associates, Inc., carried out an Ethics Training to key executives and key staff of the National Port Authority Commission (Comisión Ejecutiva Portuaria Autónoma). ... Learn more
Advancing Transparency and Good Governance in El Salvador
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to El Salvador awarded Casals & Associates the Transparency and Governance (TAG) Project in May 2009. The TAG project is a one and a half year contract for $2.8 million with the possibility of yearly cost extensions for up to five years. The... Learn more
Armenia – Mobilizing Action Against Corruption
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to Armenia awarded Casals & Associates the Mobilizing Action Against Corruption (MAAC) contract in July 2007 Whose 3 year program has been extended to July of 2012. The purpose of the MAAC project, a component of the U.S. development... Learn more
Assisting Paraguay with Reducing Corruption and Impunity
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded Casals & Associates, Inc. a $9.3 million follow-on project aimed at reducing corruption and impunity in Paraguay. The project, awarded as a task order in October 2009 under the Encouraging Global Anticorruption and Good Governance Efforts... 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
Building More Effective and Efficient Government in Mexico
Casals & Associates is a subcontractor to Abt Associates, Inc. on the five-year U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mexico Competitiveness Program. The program, designed to increase private sector competitiveness, is comprised of three components: (1) more sustainable environmental... Learn more
Central America and Mexico Anticorruption, Transparency and Accountability Program
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracted Casals & Associates in February 2005 to lead the $28 million, five-year Central America and Mexico (CAM) Anti-Corruption, Transparency, and Accountability Program. The region-wide initiative, headquartered in Guatemala, had additional... 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
Enhancing Democratic Participation in Bolivia
Casals & Associates, Inc. assisted the government of Bolivia with consultation and cooperation in a democratic context through a $14 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
Enhancing Good Governance and Democracy in Mexico
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to Mexico awarded Casals & Associates the $22.5 million Greater Transparency and Accountability of Governments in Mexico Project in 2003. The five-year award folded together several smaller USAID/Mexico democracy and governance contracts,... Learn more
Enhancing Rule of Law and Good Governance in the Dominican Republic
Casals & Associates, Inc. was selected by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to manage a $1.8 million Transparency and Citizen Participation Program in the Dominican Republic. The program had three objectives: Advocating civil society’s call for accountable, transparent and... 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
Leading Threshold Country Program in Paraguay
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracted Casals & Associates, Inc. in 2006 to lead a $21.8 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Country Program in Paraguay. The MCC approved the two-year Threshold Country Program (TCP) that the Government of Paraguay (GOP)... Learn more
Managing the Americas Accountability/Anticorruption Project
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracted Casals & Associates from 1993 through September 2006 to run the Americas’ Accountability/Anti-Corruption (AAA) Project — originally known as the Regional Financial Management Improvement Project (RFMIP). The AAA Project was at the... Learn more
Measuring Corruption in Cambodia
Casals & Associates completed a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) assignment to assess corruption in Cambodia. The firm examined the following: The degree to which corruption exists in Cambodia The types of corruption most harmful to democratic governance The capacity of government,... Learn more
Mongolia – Corruption Assessment
Casals & Associates completed a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) assignment to assess corruption in Mongolia. The assessment involved the following: Analyzing the dynamics of corruption existing at all levels of government in Mongolia Evaluating the capacity of government and civil... 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
Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law in Albania
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracted Casals & Associates to manage a three-year, $6 million program to strengthen democracy and the rule of law in Albania. From 2004 until 2007, Casals & Associates provided technical assistance and training to a variety of public and... Learn more
Promoting Good Governance in Ukraine
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Ukraine initiated a series of activities in March 2006—responsive to the USAID Anti-corruption Strategy—to build on the considerable foundation it had laid to mainstream its anticorruption activities and its host-country programming.... Learn more
Reducing Corruption in Colombia
Casals & Associates successfully completed a three-year, $8 million anticorruption project in Colombia in December 2006. The project increased transparency, efficiency, and public management within Colombia´s government institutions at the national, departmental, and municipal levels as well as... Learn more
Reducing Corruption in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch
As part of the massive amount of foreign assistance that flowed into Honduras following the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch, and to help curb corruption, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to Honduras contracted Casals & Associates to provide technical support to... Learn more
Rolling Back Corruption in Guatemala
Casals & Associates managed an anticorruption project in Guatemala from 2003 to 2005 funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The project’s key components were working with members of Guatemalan civil society to advance their efforts to build consensus on a national... 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
Supporting Recovery and Democratic Transition in Nicaragua
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded one of the first bilateral anticorruption contracts to Casals & Associates in 1995 to advise the government of Nicaragua as it faced an economy in ruins after years of war. The project’s goal was to improve the government’s ability... Learn more
Supporting the Rule of Law and Combating Corruption in Bolivia
Casals & Associates managed a two-year anti-corruption and rule of law program in Bolivia funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Under the $2.2 million program, the firm provided technical assistance and training to Bolivia’s judiciary and prosecutorial institutions... Learn more
Training Business Leaders from Central Asia and the Former Soviet Union in Ethics
Based on Casals & Associates’ successful corporate ethics training program for business leaders from several countries in Central Asia and other Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union in 2002, the firm was awarded a contract to develop a follow-on training program for 2004. Under the... Learn more
Training Business Leaders from Russia and Kazakhstan in Corporate Governance
Casals & Associates managed a corporate governance training program for business leaders from Russia and Kazakhstan for the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) International Trade Administration’s Office of Eastern Europe, Russia and Independent States (OEERIS). The training — which took place... 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 – 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
USAID Awards Casals & Associates a Transparency and Governance Project in Paraguay
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – October 1, 2009 — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded Casals & Associates, Inc. a $9.3 million follow-on project aimed at reducing corruption and impunity in Paraguay. The project, awarded as a task order under the Encouraging Global Anticorruption... Learn more
Casals & Associates Awarded USAID-Funded Fight Against Impunity Program in Paraguay
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – June 1, 2006 — Casals & Associates, Inc. (C&A) has been selected by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to lead a $21.8 million Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) Threshold Country Program in Paraguay, C&A President Beatriz Casals announced... Learn more
