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Washington — The U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation named a company, a country compact and a health activist as its annual award winners.
Visa Inc. won the MCC Corporate Award; the Millennium Challenge Account–Mongolia earned the MCC Country Commitment Award; and Jonny Dorsey won MCC’s Next Generation Award. The winners will be honored at MCC’s inaugural Forum on Global Development on April 25.
“MCC was created to deliver smart, effective assistance by pushing the envelope on best practices in country-led, results-focused, reform-driven development,” said MCC chief executive Daniel W. Yohannes. “As leaders in investment, innovation and gender integration, this year’s honored recipients are role models for effective development in action and share our commitment to prosperity as they work to help people lift themselves out of poverty.”
MCC’s Corporate Award recognizes an American company for demonstrating exemplary commitment to trade or investment in one or more MCC partner countries. This year’s winner, Visa Inc., is headquartered in San Francisco. Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to digital currency.
Visa provides free financial literacy programs to millions around the world, with a goal to reach 20 million people worldwide by May 2013. In 2011, Visa and the government of Rwanda announced a Charter of Collaboration to develop localized solutions to extend access to financial services to citizens throughout the country. Visa also supports some of the world’s leading nongovernmental organizations, such as joining with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Australian Agency for International Development to support the GSMA mWomen Program and its goal to reduce the mobile phone gender gap and improve women’s access to life-enhancing financial services.
MCC’s Country Commitment Award recognizes a Millennium Challenge account that has demonstrated exemplary commitment to one of MCC’s core principles. This year’s award focuses on leadership in advancing MCC’s corporate goal of gender integration.
This year’s winner, MCA-Mongolia, implements MCC’s five-year, $285 million compact with the government of Mongolia. The compact makes strategic investments to increase economic activity through secure and registered land titles in urban areas, sustainable use and management of rangelands near cities, and improved vocational and technical training. Additional investments help ensure Mongolians become healthier and more productive, improve urban air quality by increasing the adoption of energy-efficient products and homes in the ger (traditional dwelling) districts of Ulaanbaatar, support the development of renewable energy, and improve the road in the north-south economic corridor.
MCA-Mongolia has demonstrated a commitment to gender integration across a wide range of operational areas, including program implementation, communications, and monitoring and evaluation. It conducted gender training with its program implementation units and contractors and established points of contact on gender issues in each such unit. Through quarterly meetings, MCA-Mongolia tracks progress on gender integration, and programmatic interventions have been designed more effectively as a result.
MCC’s Next Generation Award recognizes a student leader in the United States who is making a difference in the fight to reduce poverty in one or more MCC partner countries through advocacy, research or resource mobilization.
This year’s winner, Jonny Dorsey, is a northern California native who has co-founded two international NGOs: FACE AIDS and the Global Health Corps. FACE AIDS, a student campaign to fight HIV/AIDS, was founded in 2005 when, as a Stanford University undergraduate, Dorsey traveled to Zambia to volunteer in a refugee camp. The experience of watching a friend suffer from AIDS with no access to care prompted him and his classmates to create the organization.
As the organization’s executive director, Dorsey worked to define FACE AIDS’ vision, expand the organization to a network of university and secondary school campuses across the country, and mobilize college students to raise more than $2 million for Partners in Health’s HIV/AIDS program in Rwanda.
During his work with FACE AIDS, Dorsey met talented young people struggling to launch careers in public service. This prompted him to co-found Global Health Corps, a fellowship program that places emerging leaders from around the world with high-impact organizations building health systems. In 2012, Global Health Corps will arrange 90 placements for fellows to work with nonprofits and governments across the world.
The fellows will perform a wide range of activities, from conducting analyses of supply chains to training community health workers. Dorsey is currently a graduate student, concurrently studying for a Master of Public Administration degree at Harvard University and a Master of Business Administration degree at Stanford University.
MCC’s Forum on Global Development offers an occasion for visionaries and practitioners in international development to meet, exchange ideas and honor three innovators for their demonstrated commitment to creative approaches to helping the world’s poor.
Gayle Smith, a special assistant to President Obama and senior director at the National Security Council, and Michael Gerson, a columnist with the Washington Post and senior adviser to the ONE Campaign, will join the award recipients in a panel discussion at the Forum about the importance of foreign aid. The panel will also include Sheila Herrling, MCC’s vice president for policy and evaluation.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2012/04/201204244476.html#ixzz1tXNQXQ1K
Visa Inc. won the MCC Corporate Award; the Millennium Challenge Account–Mongolia earned the MCC Country Commitment Award; and Jonny Dorsey won MCC’s Next Generation Award. The winners will be honored at MCC’s inaugural Forum on Global Development on April 25.
“MCC was created to deliver smart, effective assistance by pushing the envelope on best practices in country-led, results-focused, reform-driven development,” said MCC chief executive Daniel W. Yohannes. “As leaders in investment, innovation and gender integration, this year’s honored recipients are role models for effective development in action and share our commitment to prosperity as they work to help people lift themselves out of poverty.”
MCC’s Corporate Award recognizes an American company for demonstrating exemplary commitment to trade or investment in one or more MCC partner countries. This year’s winner, Visa Inc., is headquartered in San Francisco. Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to digital currency.
Visa provides free financial literacy programs to millions around the world, with a goal to reach 20 million people worldwide by May 2013. In 2011, Visa and the government of Rwanda announced a Charter of Collaboration to develop localized solutions to extend access to financial services to citizens throughout the country. Visa also supports some of the world’s leading nongovernmental organizations, such as joining with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Australian Agency for International Development to support the GSMA mWomen Program and its goal to reduce the mobile phone gender gap and improve women’s access to life-enhancing financial services.
MCC’s Country Commitment Award recognizes a Millennium Challenge account that has demonstrated exemplary commitment to one of MCC’s core principles. This year’s award focuses on leadership in advancing MCC’s corporate goal of gender integration.
This year’s winner, MCA-Mongolia, implements MCC’s five-year, $285 million compact with the government of Mongolia. The compact makes strategic investments to increase economic activity through secure and registered land titles in urban areas, sustainable use and management of rangelands near cities, and improved vocational and technical training. Additional investments help ensure Mongolians become healthier and more productive, improve urban air quality by increasing the adoption of energy-efficient products and homes in the ger (traditional dwelling) districts of Ulaanbaatar, support the development of renewable energy, and improve the road in the north-south economic corridor.
MCA-Mongolia has demonstrated a commitment to gender integration across a wide range of operational areas, including program implementation, communications, and monitoring and evaluation. It conducted gender training with its program implementation units and contractors and established points of contact on gender issues in each such unit. Through quarterly meetings, MCA-Mongolia tracks progress on gender integration, and programmatic interventions have been designed more effectively as a result.
MCC’s Next Generation Award recognizes a student leader in the United States who is making a difference in the fight to reduce poverty in one or more MCC partner countries through advocacy, research or resource mobilization.
This year’s winner, Jonny Dorsey, is a northern California native who has co-founded two international NGOs: FACE AIDS and the Global Health Corps. FACE AIDS, a student campaign to fight HIV/AIDS, was founded in 2005 when, as a Stanford University undergraduate, Dorsey traveled to Zambia to volunteer in a refugee camp. The experience of watching a friend suffer from AIDS with no access to care prompted him and his classmates to create the organization.
As the organization’s executive director, Dorsey worked to define FACE AIDS’ vision, expand the organization to a network of university and secondary school campuses across the country, and mobilize college students to raise more than $2 million for Partners in Health’s HIV/AIDS program in Rwanda.
During his work with FACE AIDS, Dorsey met talented young people struggling to launch careers in public service. This prompted him to co-found Global Health Corps, a fellowship program that places emerging leaders from around the world with high-impact organizations building health systems. In 2012, Global Health Corps will arrange 90 placements for fellows to work with nonprofits and governments across the world.
The fellows will perform a wide range of activities, from conducting analyses of supply chains to training community health workers. Dorsey is currently a graduate student, concurrently studying for a Master of Public Administration degree at Harvard University and a Master of Business Administration degree at Stanford University.
MCC’s Forum on Global Development offers an occasion for visionaries and practitioners in international development to meet, exchange ideas and honor three innovators for their demonstrated commitment to creative approaches to helping the world’s poor.
Gayle Smith, a special assistant to President Obama and senior director at the National Security Council, and Michael Gerson, a columnist with the Washington Post and senior adviser to the ONE Campaign, will join the award recipients in a panel discussion at the Forum about the importance of foreign aid. The panel will also include Sheila Herrling, MCC’s vice president for policy and evaluation.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2012/04/201204244476.html#ixzz1tXNQXQ1K
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