International Development
With over 50 years of a distinguished history of managing international development projects for U.S. government agencies, notably the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and in recent years the Department of Defense (DOD), CAMRIS has delivered comprehensive and customized technical assistance to achieve evidence-based solutions.
DELIVERING COMPREHENSIVE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN:
- Prompt mobilization of technical resources
- Managing resources to build and sustain local capacity
- Identifying and scaling-up best practices
- Connecting relevant sectors for impact and uptake
DELIVERING CUSTOMIZED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN:
- Designing locally relevant solutions
- Monitoring, assessing, and integrating programs
Democracy & Governance
CAMRIS provides support to USAID, DOD, and AusAID in development of their Democracy and Governance programs. CAMRIS has demonstrated its ability to quickly respond to a range of D&G concerns, mainly in election monitoring and political processes, rule of law, improvement of governance in public sector management, and post conflict. CAMRIS provides expert technical assistance to the various sectors under Democracy and Governance, from program design to program management, economic and financial analysis, logistics, monitoring and evaluation, 508 compliance, training and open source analysis.
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Disaster Preparedness
CAMRIS International has a long-standing relationship with USAID and other US government entities, and prides itself for acting as a bridge between USAID and DOD, helping complement the civilian and military counterparts of government and streamlining and coordinating their objectives and needs. CAMRIS acts as the link, or integrator between civilian and military entities, coordinating a streamlined response that is both technologically innovative and one that caters to local needs and a culturally appropriate vision. The CAMRIS team leverages the various funding and expertise available and provides a holistic approach to the concept of Disaster Preparedness, in a manner that is applicable to various regions and countries.
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Applied research, data collection & analysis
Field data collection is essential to fill in knowledge gaps, and CAMRIS often provides data collection and analysis services. This ranges from health market assessments to field surveys to sophisticated analysis and modeling. CAMRIS provides data collection services including maternal and child health, infectious diseases and other areas.
Example: South Africa
Challenge: To determine the prevalence and epidemiology of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa and to enable the development of strategies to control this growing and costly public health threat.
Solution: CAMRIS, working with South African experts, carried out a nationwide study of a sample (n=18,000) of sputa from tuberculosis cases in all provinces, including strain typing. Results enabled policy and decision makers to understand the prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, epidemiology of MDR substrains, and other operational anomalies in the handling of specimens and in the diagnosis and reporting of TB cases.
Sustainable development
CAMRIS has worked to improve development programs for economic growth and institutional strengthening in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Intitiatives included:
- Small and medium enterprise (SME) development, including institutional strengthening, economic planning, budget analysis, sectoral analysis, and marketing analysis.
- Social sector development, including strengthening educational programs, social service programs, and modernizing institutions at all levels.
- Agriculture and rural development, including alternative development to promote substitutes for agricultural illicit drug production.
- Promotion of trade and exports through improved planning, policies and systems
- Financial systems, including modernization of information systems, management processes, laws, regulations, procedures, training, and monitoring and evaluation. Past work also includes budgeting, human resources management, and public sector planning.
In Peru, CAMRIS provided technical services for USAID’s Alternative Development Program designed to reduce coca cultivation by supporting viable alternatives for licit livelihoods. CAMRIS provided support in the areas of operations research and knowledge management to identify better ways to achieve sustainable impact in promoting licit economic activities, strengthening agricultural research, livestock, agricultural cooperatives, sugar diversification, regional development, and housing.
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