Latin America and the Caribbean
Reaching a Broader Audience
According to Transparency International, El Salvador is perceived to have one of the highest levels of corruption worldwide. This rating not only damages the country’s international image, it undermines a healthy business and investment climate, and increases the cost of negotiations, thus detracting... 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
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 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
Curbing Gang Violence in El Salvador
Casals & Associates helped organize the First Regional Conference about Juvenile Violence in Central America, which took place in May 2007 in the city of San Salvador, El Salvador. The conference was sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Secretary General of the... 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
Expanding Access to Justice in Colombia
Casals & Associates partnered with Florida International University (FIU) on a $20 million U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) effort to support judicial reform and modernization in Colombia as well as broaden access to justice. As a subcontractor, Casals & Associates worked with... Learn more
Improving Health Care Outreach in Latin America
Over a period of nine years, Casals & Associates assisted the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in developing and implementing an integrated marketing communications plan, “Communicating for Health,” providing public health information throughout the Americas. The plan used conventional... 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
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
Supporting Asset Seizure and Forfeiture Management in the Dominican Republic
At the request of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Casals & Associates managed a program focusing on asset seizure and forfeiture within three key anti-drug institutions in the Dominican Republic: the Superintendence of Banks, the National... 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
Mexico and North America – Producing International GeoExchange Teleconferences
Over a four-year period, Casals & Associates researched, organized and produced a series of two-hour international teleconferences about GeoExchange (geothermal, ground source) heating and cooling systems for the Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium (GHPC). The GHPC is a cooperative venture working to... 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
