Advancing Development Goals

Amideast BLADI Project (December 2018 – January 2021)

Launched in late 2018, the two-year Building Local Associations for Development and Innovation, or BLADI, project sought to build the capacity and expand the work of 18 local Tunisian civil society organizations (CSOs) that effectively address issues of social exclusion, marginalization, and extremism in Tunisia.

Launched in October 2013, the $24.5 million USAID-funded D-Rasati 2 project built on the achievements of phase 1 (2011–13) and contributed to the implementation of Lebanon’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE)’s Education Sector Development Plan. 

Amideast worked in collaboration with World Learning to realize key objectives of the project, including bolstering processes for developing leadership of public schools and strengthening the role of extracurricular activities.

In late September 2014, USAID awarded Quality Instruction Towards Access and Basic Education Improvement (QITABI), a $42 million grant to implement basic education services in Lebanon’s public schools over a four-year period, to Amideast, World Learning, MSI, and Ana Aqra’.