Local Capacity for Local Solutions (LC4LS) Project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was launched in Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown to strengthen the managerial, organizational, and administrative capacities of NGOs working in the areas of youth and citizen security, HIV and AIDS, and environmental resilience, as well as those that address poverty alleviation, economic empowerment and work with marginalized populations.
The project is being implemented in Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts & Nevis, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, and Guyana in collaboration with the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) and the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies.
United States Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. Perry Holloway, said, “This U.S. Embassy-supported $8 million dollar initiative represents an ongoing partnership with Guyana and nine other countries of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. It also demonstrates our collective commitment to promote more resilient and prosperous communities in which Government and civil society work hand in hand to develop sustainable solutions to the region’s most pressing challenges.”
The LC4LS Project represents an example of USAID Administrator Mark Green’s push to ensure that USAID programs are best-supporting a country’s journey to self-reliance by implementing solutions to their own development challenges.