Millennium Challenge Corporation - MCC

Learn how MCC is investing in #data and #evidence to improve program impact in this year’s @Results4America Federal Standard. Tune in today @ 2 p.m. EST ➡️ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xon5hKluS8CwBepUZTY5DA

MCC recently adopted #blendedfinance as an institutional investment criterion to advance blended finance opportunities at the earliest stages of the program development process Watch 🎥 to learn more:

Take a virtual journey with us to Malawi to meet Mary. We #BelieveinWEE and the #WGDP Initiative because of women like Mary, an entrepreneur who opened her own grocery store & created income for her family, thanks to a loan supported by MCC’s compact.

MCC’s investments have always included women’s economic empowerment, but we’re taking a bold new step by adding new institutional investment criterion. The criterion will advance the #WGDP Initiative by identifying barriers that prevent women from access to opportunities. Watch 🎥 to learn more: #BelieveinWEE

#BelieveinWEE

Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) means unlocking the potential of women by overcoming financial, legal, & cultural barriers. When women are economically empowered, they re-invest in their families and communities, producing a multiplier effect that spurs economic growth. As part of The White House – led #WGDP Initiative, MCC is advancing women’s economic empowerment because women deserve the opportunity to have equal economic opportunities, no matter where they live. We #BelieveinWEE + we challenge you to share why you #BelieveinWEE

MCC recently added #blendedfinance as institutional investment criterion to advance how we identify, evaluate & pursue opportunities for blended finance at the earliest stages of the compact development process. #MCCBlendedFinance

Hear directly from beneficiaries of MCC’s El Salvador Investment Compact – a program designed to improve the country’s investment climate, strengthen its transportation infrastructure & create job opportunities for the people of #ElSalvador

MCC’s El Salvador Investment Compact was designed to improve the country’s investment climate, strengthen its transportation infrastructure & create job opportunities to promote a brighter future for the people of El Salvador. Watch 🎥 to hear from beneficiaries of the compact.

MCC recently adopted blended finance as new institutional investment criterion to advance how we identify, evaluate & pursue opportunities for blended finance at the earliest stages of the compact development process. #MCCBlendedFinance Watch 📽️ to learn more:

Sean Cairncross Milken Institute Podcast

🎙: MCC CEO Sean Cairncross joined @MilkenInstitute for “Conversations with Mike Milken” podcast to discuss aid transparency & MCC’s response to the global #COVID19 pandemic. 🎧 here: https://milkeninstitute.org/podcast/conversations-mike-milken

ICYMI: MCC is taking blended finance to a whole new level by adding new investment criteria! Watch 📽️ to learn more about #MCCBlendedFinance

We’re taking blended finance to a whole new level ❗ Watch 🎥 to learn more about MCC’s new investment criteria #MCCBlendedFinance

#EmpoweringWomen

MCC’s programs have always supported Women’s Economic Empowerment, and now we’ve taken a bold, new step. Watch 🎥 to learn more about MCC’s new investment criteria for economically empowering women.

🚨 The Publish What You Fund #2020Index results are out: MCC ranks #1 (again!) as Most Transparent Agency in the U.S. Government and is the TOP bilateral donor in the 🌍 for aid transparency! Learn more: https://www.mcc.gov/news-and-events/release/062420-2020-aid-transparency-index

Annie lives in Malawi’s Shire River Basin. She produced charcoal by burning trees to sell to consumers due to limited economic opportunities. It was her only source of income for 10 years to support her two children. After learning about sustainable land practices through a Malawi Compact-funded program, she now produces and sells tree seedlings instead. #IWD2020

Annie's Story

Annie lives in Malawi’s Shire River Basin, where due to limited economic opportunities she used to produce and sell charcoal by burning trees. Learn how MCC's Malawi compact-funded program on sustainable land practices helped empower Annie to new work!

Posted @withrepost • @realdonaldtrump #Repost @ivankatrump ・・・ An impactful day in Morocco, where we furthered all 3 pillars of #WGDP 🇺🇸🇲🇦⬇️ 💫 Women Prospering in the Workforce 💫 Women Succeeding as Entrepreneurs 💫 Women Enabled in the Economy

How the MCC Georgia Compact II has helped #Georgian STEM students prepare their country for the future! 🇬🇪🇺🇸

As the MCC Georgia Compact II comes to a close, we're showcasing the wonderful achievements made in #education over the last 5 years! 🇬🇪🇺🇸 See how the first #STEM graduates of #SDSUGeorgia are preparing their country for the future: www.mcc.gov/georgia-closeout

Happy International Youth Day from the world’s future leaders in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math! Today we welcomed 100 high school girls from the U.S., Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan to the #WiSciGeorgia #STEAM camp for two weeks of enhancing their skills in these fields with private sector partners like Google, Intel, and Microsoft. Learn more: https://www.mcc.gov/news-and-events/feature/2018-women-in-science-camp

Country Spotlight: Ghana The MCC Ghana Compact is working to transform Ghana’s power sector through private sector participation and key policy and institutional reforms that will provide more reliable and affordable power to Ghana’s businesses and households. 🇬🇭🇺🇸 Watch MCC’s Resident Country Director for Ghana Kenny Miller discuss what brings him and Millennium Development Authority - Ghana CEO Martin Eson-Benjamin to Washington D.C. this week:

SDSU-Georgia Student Natia's Story

Through an innovative partnership with San Diego State University, MCC’s Georgia Compact is shaping the next generation of Georgian and U.S. science, technology, engineering and math leaders. Natia, a freshman Chemistry and Biochemistry major is enrolled at San Diego State University Georgia. Hear her story: ათასწლეულის გამოწვევის ფონდი - საქართველო | MCA - Georgia

Partnering with the Private Sector to Improve Farmers' Livelihoods

MCC's investment in the cocoa sector in Indonesia generated additional investment from the private sector, reaching nearly 90,000 cocoa growing households across the six main cocoa-growing provinces. Cocoa trading and processing companies are providing 50% of the co-financing to enroll up to 36,500 new farmers. Check out our video to learn more: Cargill Barry Callebaut Group MCA - Indonesia

Better Healthcare Through Improved Government Spending

Find out how MCC's investments to improve the government's procurement system in Indonesia also help improve healthcare. View our video: MCA-Indonesia

Partnering with the Private Sector to Improve Farmers' Livelihoods

Indonesia is the third largest cocoa producer in the world. MCC's investments in Indonesia worked to unlock private sector opportunities in cocoa supply chains across the country, and help farmers increase the quality and quantity of the cocoa they produce through training and new platforms to expand market opportunities. Hear more about the program: @Mars Cargill Barry Callebaut Group MCA - Indonesia

MCC Acting CEO at Transform: Africa Business and Investment Forum

“Our goal with our public dollars is to open up markets... We are investing in the building blocks that will lower risk and create incentives for the private sector to come in and work alongside us" -Acting CEO Jonathan Nash during an agribusiness roundtable at Transform: Africa Business and Investment Forum hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa & Economic Commission for Africa. View the full video:

MCC Acting CEO Nash at the #AfricaBizForum

Watch MCC Acting CEO Jonathan Nash reflect on his day at the Transform: Africa Business and Investment Forum. He joined African leaders and U.S. and African businesses to discuss ways to promote private sector-led growth across the continent, including through MCC projects that help catalyze private investments. Be sure to also read his keynote remarks: https://www.mcc.gov/news-and-events/speech/speech-013018-nash-addis Corporate Council on Africa

This week, we're celebrating the successes of the Cabo Verde Compact as it officially concludes. Through the compact’s Land Management for Investment Project, MCC has helped Cabo Verdeans secure legal rights to their land and clarify property boundaries. As a result, citizens and businesses are now more likely to invest in their land, build on their land, and use their land as collateral to start a business. https://www.mcc.gov/news-and-events/feature/cabo-verde-compact-closeout

As part of MCC’s Cabo Verde Compact, utilities on Santiago were consolidated into a single corporatized utility called Águas de Santiago (AdS) to achieve the economies of scale necessary to deliver safe water and sanitation services to the island’s people. AdS is now a model for operational efficiency as Cabo Verde works to extend these improvements to other islands after the compact is completed. https://www.mcc.gov/news-and-events/feature/cabo-verde-compact-closeout

From country selection, to the sectors we work in, to the projects we identify in country, all of these decisions are based on MCC’s use of evidence. And this culture of evidence helps to drive us, to use evidence in new and more innovative ways. https://www.mcc.gov/initiatives/initiative/open

One of the really interesting things that MCC learned as part of our participation in this year’s "What Works Index" is that it’s just as important how an agency uses the #evidence as the evidence that it generates. https://www.mcc.gov/initiatives/initiative/open Results for America