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UArizona (Dr. Javier Osorio/SGPP PI), in partnership with Making Cents International, won a small business award under the $800m USAID Central America Regional Support Services (CARSS) IDIQ, which seeks to provide USAID Regional and Bilateral Missions within Latin America and the Caribbean with a flexible, streamlined, and total integrated service solution for addressing a variety of issues affecting the root causes of irregular migration from Central America to the United States, particularly those related to economic opportunity, governance and transparency, climate change, crime and insecurity. UAz will provide research and analytics services to support strategy and activity implementation.

The University of Arizona was recently awarded the 5-year (October 18, 2023-October 17, 2028), $6.9m USAID Niger Resilience and Agribusiness Masters Program (NRAMP). The NRAMP PI will be Dr. Mamadou Baro from the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and the Co-PI will be Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons from the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences (CALES) with additional support from the College of Education, Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) and the School of Sociology. The purpose of NRAMP is to strengthen the human and institutional capacity of Nigerien public universities to design and deliver academic coursework leading to a Master’s Degree in Resilience and Agribusiness. The project goal is to develop high quality training and education in agribusiness by Nigerien public universities that is tailored to the opportunities and challenges in Niger’s complex risk environment and responsive to the needs of both students, particularly women and youth and Niger’s agribusiness sector. Core partners include Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey (UAM), University of Tahoua (UTA), University of Boubakar Bâ, Tilliberi (UBBTi), the Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR), and Tango International (TANGO). 

This project is part of the Arizona Initiative for Resilience and International Development (AIRID).  AIRID brings together experts from across the university and around the world to forge research partnerships and develop solutions for today’s most pressing global challenges.