Hi everyone, this is Manoli Strecker, Director of Business Development for DevWorks International. Great to be here.

Hi everyone. I'm Mark Blackett from the Agribusiness Market Ecosystem. We're a new CI member!

Hello! Rachel Lukas here. I am the COO for TerraMica. We work to alleviate poverty among coffee farmers through behavior change interventions. Primarily in Latin America at the moment, but in the process of expanding!

Hi everyone. I am Sovannarith Chhoeung from Heifer Cambodia.

Hi all, Sarah Hennessy, Implementation and Servicing Manager from Triangle Environmental Health Initiative. We work in water, sanitation and hygiene and solid waste management in Sub Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia

Hi everyone, this is Madhyama Subramanian from Solidaridad. We focus on building sustainable agriculture and ASM gold supply chains in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Great to be here!

Hi everyone, Innocent Masikati from John Snow South Africa.

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Hi! I'm Kyley Schmidt, General Manager of Tanana Silk. We work in environmental conservation and poverty alleviation in Madagascar.

Hi! Jorge Gutierrez from Mexico, starting an IDOs and public sector in a new Firm after almost 3 decades in a Big4

Hello everyone. Wail Aljirafi here from Apex Consulting. We focus on public sector reform

Hello everyone! My name is Taylor Cleveland with Connective Impact. I'll be sending the workbook to those who have not received it momentarily.

Hi everyone, this is Paz from CAFOD

Hello everyone, am Prince Joseph MISSO, Executive Director, African Youth Legal Justice Network, we work in climate change and provide Legal services to the vulnerable and the poor

Hello everyone. I am Ernest Nkansah, staff of the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre. I am happy to be here!!

Hi everyone, this is Katie Cook, Senior Program Officer for Prosperity Catalyst. We develop and strengthen women-led businesses in Iraq and Haiti; creating opportunities for women to achieve economic and social empowerment.

Hi Everyone, I'm Elsie Appeadu, Country Director of Pure Earth Ghana; an Int. NGO focused on solving pollution issues around the world.

Hi everyone, this is Shannon Kelley, Business Development Manager for DevWorks International. Looking forward to this conversation!

Hello! Boma Braide here. I am the CEO for BWBMart.com. We work to remove 1 million entrepreneurs from poverty in Africa through ecommerce and other technologies. Our categories are mainly in fashion, coffee, chocolate, food, etc. We work primarily with 75% women. Nice to be here and hope to meet some interesting people.

Just a reminder, if you haven’t received the workbook please DM Taylor Cleveland. We will follow up with all registrants with the recording and workbook!

Hi all, I'm Robert Carraro, with Child Aid. We work to improve education in Guatemala. Primary emphasis on primary schools in remote areas. Each location is home to large indigenous populations, the primary beneficiaries of Child Aid.

Hi Everyone, I'm Samantha Gonzalez with Fonkoze USA, which is part of a family of organizations that work together to provide the financial and non-financial services to empower Haitians—primarily women—to lift their families out of poverty.

Good morning, I am Erin Mooney, Director of Mayan Families in Guatemala (soon to be renamed Natün Guatemala). We are a small NGO ($1.2M) that works in the areas of education, nutrition and health (malnutrition, water, local agriculture), and economic development within Maya communities, centering Indigenous leadership and community-led solutions. Our work focuses in the Sololá department.

Hi everyone! Mahlette Betre here and I am on the Board of a NGO called Farm Africa which specializes in supporting small scale farmers to boosts yields, protects the environment and connect to thriving markets in DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

say more about "mentor" relationships for organizations

We’ll open it up to your questions momentarily so if you have specific questions please share here or raise your hand when we open it up for Q&A!

Well received.

I prefer to listern first. Thank you so much, it really helpful and interesting.

This is a question from a partner’s perspective. As a partner, what should be my criteria to choose a winning consortium?

Are sub grants limited to non-for-profit?

What are the key points you would like to learn about in initial intro meetings with new potential partners/subs?

Assuming a potential sub org meets all criteria, what are some effective strategies for positioning itself with primes (vs. waiting around to be identified and tapped by a prime)?

@Dhriti - choose a consortium that speaks to your values, your passion. You may look for who will win, and find they are not who you want to work with. Choose your partnerships based on shared principles and communication style.

Thanks

@madhyama - initial meetings - who are you (your staff)? what is your history? how/why did you start your org? what experience do you have (what are your qualifications)? a rough estimate of your size and scope and scale of your work.

Thanks, Jen!

can a sub operate outside the priority geography of the prime?

Also keep in mind we all move around - we might be with Tetra Tech today, RTI tomorrow and Blumont in 3 years! Your connections with people will travel with them as they move and grow their career.

That is a great point, Jen!

WorkWithUSAID.org

Completely agreed with Erin! It is not always that easy to identify and reach out to PRIMES for specific opportunities in the pipeline!

We have all of our calls logged in a database (FYI) so I can find info on every organization we have talked to for the past 50 years, for our operating unit...

SBAIC database is a good place to start for us to find US small businesses. For local NGOs, we go to local government first - who is registered with the Ministry of Agriculture, for example. But we also google! Who is getting their name out there? LinkedIn also a good source. We also ask people - who is a good local org in this space?

explorer.usaid.gov and usaspending.gov are both helpful

Devex’

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This year SID is virtual too!

sidw.org

And of course the traffic times.... :>)

Sold— I will plan a roadshow to DC this year. Happy to represent another small or or 2 from Guatemala if there is anyone on this call from here who can’t afford the trip.

ROOM 1: Jennifer Park - RTIROOM 2: Jen Peterson - TetraTechROOM 3: Roman Ponos - BlumontROOM 4: Drew Drozynski - DevWorks

My email is adrozynski@devworks.org if you want to reach out to me after the session.

Jen.Peterson@tetratech.com - shoot me an email or find me on LinkedIn!

I'm at jenniferpark@rti.org!

Tetra Tech works a LOT in Colombia, Peru, Honduras, as well as Asia - it is me who is Africa-focused

DevWorks which room no is it?

may I go to room 2

Thank you very nice session.

https://www.usaid.gov/where-we-work

Look for CDCS - Results Framework

Thanks so much. Very helpful session!

Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS)--ea USAID mission has one

Thank you all, very insightful!

https://www.usaid.gov/business-forecast

I literally check the USAID Business Forecast every.single.day

I've got the forecast up in another window as we speak right now!

Great workshop, very informative. Thank you Joanne and all the panellists.

Thanks everybody, this was extremely helpful! :)

Thank you all so much! Very helpful session.

This panel was so helpful, just fantastic, thank you so much everyone!

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Thank you.

Good luck everyone! Feel free to reach out. Cheers!

Thank you!

Thank u all

Thanks everyone! Very helpful