CRS celebrates the achievements of the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative project

The Great Lakes Cassava Initiative (GLCI) field teams and CRS headquarters staff celebrated the project’s achievement in disseminating clean cassava seed to 1,200,000 smallholder farmer households. The four-year project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, addressed cassava seed availability within the context of the existing Cassava Mosaic Disease and the emergent Cassava Brown Streak Disease in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Click here to read more about the event.

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CRS holds symposium on emergency preparedness and response

On May 3, 2012, Catholic Relief Services held a symposium in Washington, DC, to explore the key issues, challenges and trends facing humanitarian organizations responding to emergencies. Participants discussed key principles and approaches to effective emergency preparedness and response. Click here to learn more about the CRS Emergency Preparedness and Response Symposium.

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CRS shares strategies for capacity strengthening at Society for International Development event

The SID-Washington Civil Society Workgroup hosted a panel discussion on April 26, 2012. The panel explored the approaches used by three international development community leaders to strengthen their host-country partners' institutional capacities. The event covered the many issues that have arisen as U.S.-based private voluntary organizations have sought to transform the principles of partnership—from policy rhetoric to operational reality—in donor-funded international relief and development programs. Sarah Ford, CRS senior technical advisor for partnership and capacity strengthening, was one of three panelists. Click here to read more about the event.