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who we are:

Let’s transform life-changing ideas into world-changing ones.

Innovative ideas to solve the world’s toughest challenges are born every day in communities around the globe. But to grow, these ideas need connection. They need a global network that can help effective ideas reach more people, in more places. A network of thousands of local experts ready to carry innovations from one country to adapt them to another. That’s where we fit in.

Founded in 1975, Chemonics is a leading global sustainable development firm for one reason: our people. We are 6,000+ professionals in more than 100 countries around the globe, and 90 percent of us are working in a community we’ve long called home. Our teams reflect a diversity of technical expertise and local knowledge, because solving complex development challenges requires both. And as a company, we are committed to connections – global and local, human and technological – that allow learnings to efficiently flow and adapt between experts, projects, and countries.

Today, we invest in what we know works: human talent, data, technology, training, media, and private capital help us match the speed and scale of humanity’s most pressing challenges. From building partnerships to develop locally led solutions, to engaging private sector partnerships to tackle health challenges in Senegal, to enhancing digital banking in the Philippines – every action we take is driven by a conviction that true service means tomorrow’s work must be better than today’s. So, when others say it can’t be done, we ask when we can start. With curiosity. With an interest in new ideas. With listening. Because the more intractable the problem, the more determined we are to take it on.

Together.

https://chemonics.com/who-we-are/

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Notable

Number 1, 3 and 5 on the list is Chemonics International and it has ties to the Podesta Group and Haiti…

As USAID’s staff has continually diminished, the reliance on for-profit contractors has increased drastically. Chemonics has been one of the largest benefactors of this phenomenon worldwide. In 2001, Chemonics received nearly $40 million in government contracts; by 2011, that number had risen to nearly $700 million. Despite the success, Chemonics and other for-profit contractors are clearly threatened by the rhetoric of reform that has come from USAID. Although it is clear that USAID Forward has not made a drastic difference in the behavior of USAID in Haiti, the plan is only a few years old, and is expected to take five years in total to fully implement. Preparing for the upcoming battle, for-profit development firms formed a lobbying entity this past July, the Coalition of International Development Companies (CIDC). Josh Rogin reported for The Cable at the time:

In another recognition of the need to be more public and do more outreach, the CIDC has hired the Podesta group to aid its public relations and media outreach effort.

[The Podesta Group, incidentally, was founded by Tony Podesta and his brother, former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, who also headed President Obama’s transition team.]

In Haiti, firms belonging to CIDC have received over 70 percent of all contracts from USAID, the vast majority of which have gone to Chemonics. With the entrenched interests of large development companies, which are often staffed heavily with former USAID officials, it will take more than just rhetoric from USAID to significantly alter the way aid is administered.

https://cepr.net/publications/with-poor-track-records-for-profit-development-companies-team-up-to-fight-reform/