SERVICES
	Economic Growth
		Trade and Investment Policy
		Macroeconomic, Fiscal, and Monetary Policy
		Business Development Services
		Microenterprise and Microfinance Services
		SME Development
		Financial Services
		Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction
			Iraq Provincial Economic Growth Project
			Economic Governance Project
			Connecting Regional Economies
			Private Sector Growth and Employment Generation
	Environment and Regional Development
	Industrial and Commercial Area Development
	Democracy & Governance
	Crisis Response and Stabilization
	Urban Infrastructure

Connecting Regional Economies

As prime contractor, AECOM International Development has been awarded the USAID Sri Lanka Connecting Regional Economies (CORE) project. This $18.2 million contract will be implemented in Sri Lanka's north central and eastern conflict zones.

CORE addresses the disparity in economic development between the north and east of Sri Lanka and the rest of the country. We will implement the project with an integrated approach, extending value chains broadly and deeply into the grassroots level; training individuals in the skills and knowledge they need to participate as entrepreneurs and workers in value chains; and improving the business environment to enable value chains to achieve grater competitiveness. In so doing, we will create the "political space" necessary to reduce conflict in Sri Lanka.

The main technical areas of the CORE program are:

Competitiveness and value chain enhancement in the agriculture sector
Value chain services in microfinance, ITC, and business development services
Workforce development
Economic policy
Livelihoods
Grants management
Conflict resolution

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