The USAID Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) program is designed to bolster the U.S. Government’s ability to boost trade and investment to, from, and within the African continent. The continent-wide program is USAID’s flagship effort in support of the Prosper Africa initiative and will expand and accelerate two-way trade and investment between African nations and the United States. In Southern Africa, the USAID ATI Southern Africa Buy-in Activity focuses on increasing exports from targeted Southern African countries to South Africa and boosting sustainable utilization of AGOA opportunities by targeted Southern African countries. ATI seeks to deepen the market systems approach to tackle the root causes that limit Southern Africa’s agricultural and non-agricultural market system - addressing incentives, behaviors, and relationships that impede the region’s trade competitiveness. To this end, DevPact was retained by the ATI program to work closely with the project team and primarily be responsible for supporting the co-creation and deal note development process related to USAID’s Annual Program Statement (APS). Specifically, DevPact staff provided close technical leadership to all project staff and partners to ensure that they applied best practice market systems development methodologies in the targeted market systems. In addition, DevPact staff supported project country representatives and regional portfolio managers to prepare deal notes with private sector partners laying out clear intervention designs and measurable results.

Partners:  https://ati-partnerships.com/          www.dai.com