Tucked amidst rice terraces and forests lining the hills of Tublay, a municipality of Benguet in the Philippines’s Luzon island, stand the training center and offices of Alay sa Kapatid Foundation (AKAP).

The West Bank and Gaza Mission is providing tools to empower local partners to work with USAID as influential changemakers—while also listening to and learning from them to enhance development practices.

USAID's local partner, PASMO, shares information about their path to partnership, challenges they faced along the way, and tips for new local entities interested in pursuing USAID funding.

This World Food Day, we are highlighting five champions for food security and the agriculture sector from the WorkwithUSAID.org Partner Directory. Explore what these USAID partners are bringing to the table for their communities.

Get answers to some of your most pressing USAID funding questions and point you to valuable funding resources on WorkwithUSAID.org.

Registration in federal systems is one of the first steps a potential partner must take when preparing to compete for USAID funding opportunities. Registration has always been a multi-step process, but this year the system has undergone some major changes. Read this blog to learn more about the new System for Award Management (SAM) Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) process.

Tessie Catsambas smiles as she remembers the days when her company, EnCompass, was small and had just started its USAID partnership journey. “When we started EnCompass,” recalled Catsambas, the company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, “we were just two [staff] and a year later, we were three. Our first USAID subcontract came a couple of years later, and was not huge, but for a tiny company like us, it felt big.”