Are International Donors Losing Credibility?
At the recent International Anti-Corruption Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Casals & Associates led a panel entitled Regaining Citizens ’ Trust: the Role of International Donors. Over the last few decades the amount of aid and the number of donors has grown dramatically. For example, between 2008... Learn More
Casals & Associates Local Coordinator Meets U.S. Secretary of State Clinton in Armenia
July 9, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Central and Eastern Europe, News Releases
(At far left) Sergey Sargsyan talks with Secretary Clinton Casals & Associates Program Coordinator on the USAID/MAAC Program in Armenia, Sergey Sargsyan, was among 15 invited guests to take part in discussions with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her recent visit to Yerevan, the nation’s... Learn More
Transparency International’s Anti-Corruption Conference
The 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) under the auspices of Transparency International (TI) will take place November 10 through 13 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands of participants from over 100 countries are scheduled to attend. Many will be TI members from this burgeoning non-profit... Learn More
Advancing Democracy in the Dominican Republic
March 22, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Strategic Communications
Casals & Associates is developing media campaign messages in the Dominican Republic illustrating that reform is possible when citizens share in the responsibility of making democracy work. The campaign messages are part of the $1.8 million Transparency and Citizen Participation Program Casals &... Learn More
Advancing Peace and Recovery in Northern Uganda
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Conflict Management and Recovery, Featured Project, Local Governance, 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
Advancing Transparency and Good Governance in El Salvador
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Democracy and Governance, El Salvador, Featured Project, Latin America and the Caribbean, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Democracy and Governance, Featured Project, Latin America and the Caribbean
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Madagascar, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Featured Project, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance, 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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, El Salvador, Guatemala, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Democracy and Governance, Madagascar, Strategic Communications
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance
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
Conducting an International Videoconference on Corruption
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Strategic Communications
Casals & Associates helped organize a videoconference on January 25, 2006, that gathered attorneys general from all six Central American countries together for the first time to exchange effective actions against transnational corruption. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission... Learn More
Conducting Qualitative and Quantitative Research for International Broadcasting
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Strategic Communications
Working with InterMedia, a non-profit global research, evaluation, and consulting corporation, Casals & Associates is conducting quantitative and qualitative research on international broadcasting in Latin America for the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors. Using Spanish-language focus groups and... Learn More
Confronting Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Nigeria
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Conflict Management and Recovery, Strategic Communications
Casals & Associates conducted a multilingual anticorruption public outreach campaign in Nigeria as part of a USAID-funded anticorruption project we managed in the country between 2000 and 2004. The campaign featured a 13-episode television series (with related public service announcements) and accompanying... Learn More
Curbing Gang Violence in El Salvador
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Conflict Management and Recovery, Latin America and the Caribbean, Strategic Communications
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Bolivia, Civil Society Strengthening, Conflict Management and Recovery, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, 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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Dominican Republic, Latin America and the Caribbean, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Civil Society Strengthening, Colombia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 18, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Health, Latin America and the Caribbean, Strategic Communications
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Democracy and Governance, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Latin America and the Caribbean, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, Ukraine
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Asia and the Near East, Cambodia, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Asia and the Near East, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Nigeria
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Albania, Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, 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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Civil Society Strengthening, Colombia, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Conflict Management and Recovery, Democracy and Governance, Honduras, Latin America and the Caribbean
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Guatemala, Latin America and the Caribbean, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Dominican Republic, Latin America and the Caribbean, Rule of Law and Justice
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
Strengthening Government Financial Management in Ghana
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Democracy and Governance, 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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Conflict Management and Recovery, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, 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
March 17, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Bolivia, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 16, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance
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
March 16, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Kazakhstan, Russia
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
Mexico – Regional Forum on Good Governance
March 16, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Strategic Communications
Through our contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist Mexico in strengthening democracy and governance programs, Casals & Associates worked with Mexico’s Secretary of Public Administration (Secretaría de la Función Pública) and the Spanish Agency for International... Learn More
Mobilizing Citizen Support for Transparency in Colombia
March 16, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Strategic Communications
Casals & Associates, in collaboration with the Government of Colombia (GOC), several key nongovernmental organizations, and others partners, developed a national public awareness campaign for Colombia to improve citizens’ knowledge about their right to demand government transparency. The campaign... Learn More
Organizing the Anticorruption Summit 2000
March 16, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Strategic Communications
The Anti-Corruption Summit 2000, organized by Casals & Associates and held from September 21-23, 2000, at the Crystal City Hilton in Arlington, Virginia, attracted more than 300 representatives from 55 countries to discuss anti-corruption activities worldwide. Sponsored by USAID and the International... Learn More
Strengthening USAID’s Nutrition Communications Programs
March 15, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Asia and the Near East, Health, Latin America and the Caribbean, Strategic Communications
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
March 13, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Health, Latin America and the Caribbean, Strategic Communications
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)
March 13, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Health, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance
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
March 13, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 13, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Latin America and the Caribbean
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
March 13, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Health, Latin America and the Caribbean, Strategic Communications
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
March 13, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Civil Society Strengthening, Conflict Management and Recovery, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance, Rule of Law and Justice
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
March 12, 2010 — Posted by Editor
Filed under Africa, Asia and the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe, Democracy and Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean, Local Governance
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
