Current Work
Weidemann Associates' Projects address specific issue areas on a national, regional or worldwide basis. Some are implemented in coordination with U.S. prime- or sub-contractors and local partners.
The Business Growth Initiative The Business Growth Initiative (BGI) was established by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote best practices in enterprise development as a critical element for economic growth. BGI captures, disseminates and helps practitioners apply interventions that create the best opportunities for business growth and economic development, and makes these discoveries available to professionals and staff of USAID and other donors, and to practitioners in easy-to-find and easy-to-use packages.> More
RAISE Plus The Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade awarded a Small Business Set Aside Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC), the RAISE Plus Limited Scope of Work, to Weidemann Associates. This 5-year IQC began on September 29, 2004. It promotes market driven, environmentally sustainable agricultural development through technical services and field support to field missions> More
Farmer to Farmer Special Programs and Support Project Weidemann Associates, Inc. has been awarded a contract to support special volunteer programs in agricultural development under the Farmer to Farmer (FTF) Program. The goals of the SPSP contract are to: test innovative approaches towards use of volunteers, draw from non-traditional sources of volunteers, develop the capacity of non-traditional volunteer organizations working in the agriculture sector, and address niche agricultural sector issues.> More
Past Projects
Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Program (AMAP) The Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (AMAP) is a field support and knowledge generation Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) focused on developing strategies and tools to help Missions and Bureaus integrate micro and small enterprises into Agency strategies and programs. > More
The African Education Initiative's Ambassadors Girls Scholarship Program Girls account for over half of the 38 million children in Africa who do not attend school because of economic hardship or other adverse circumstances. The Ambassadors Girls’ Scholarship Program (AGSP) under the Africa Education Initiative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide 550,000 scholarships to school children, mostly girls.> More