Displacement and Migration

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 Water and Development IDIQ (WADI) will support USAID missions, bureaus, and other operating units in implementing USAID’s Water and Development Strategy. Task orders implemented through this IDIQ will reflect the Agency’s strategic direction in the water sector, including improving health outcomes through the provision of sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and managing agricultural water sustainably and more productively to enhance food security. The University of Arizona will be a resource partner and able to compete with other resource partners for task orders. 

The $2m funded modification to the Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support (HATS) project builds upon the projects current objectives to support the disaster management mission of USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) and to expand the institutional capacity of the University of Arizona (UAz) in addressing global humanitarian crises. The expanded funding seeks to raise the institutional capacities of African universities by providing African researchers with funded opportunities to conduct climate change adaptation research in Africa. HATS is collaborating with Stellenbosch University and the Partners for Enhancing Resilience of People Exposed to Risks (Periperi U), a network that consists of 12 higher education institutions across Africa, on this initiative. In doing so, the collaborative project will help USAID deliver on its commitment to locally led development. Additionally, it will help address the current lack of funding for climate adaptation research in Africa despite the continent being both least responsible for and most impacted by the accelerating impacts of climate change.

For further information, visit the HATS website.