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  • Annual Report:  2022 Annual Report
  • March 2023

Section 3: Leveraging Partnerships

MCC has broadened and deepened its partnerships with partner country governments, public donors, the private sector, and other U.S. Government agencies to further its impact, scale, innovation and the sustainability of its programs.

MCC and partner country governments partner with the private sector, civil society, foundations, donors, and other U.S. Government agencies to further the impact, innovation, and sustainability of MCC country programs. In FY2022, MCC intensified its efforts to form and leverage partnerships for the development and implementation of compact and threshold programs and to enhance MCC’s analytical and diagnostic capabilities. MCC and its MCA counterparts expanded use of co-creation, a participatory design process with the purpose of producing better outcomes by tapping into the ideas, resources, and energy of people and organizations that share a stake in solving a problem. In FY2022, MCC issued its inaugural Annual Partnerships Report which provides more detail about ways MCC is using partnerships to promote economic growth, reduce poverty, and strengthen institutions.

Agency-Level Partnerships

Agency-level partnerships are between MCC and one or more partners and afford MCC the opportunity to gain access to knowledge, data, resources, expertise, and visibility that is not easily procured via contracts. Partnerships also increase the sustainability of programs by involving external parties, thereby increasing the funding leveraged via partner co-funding. These partnerships are between MCC and one or more partners to actively share knowledge, technical expertise, and other resources to expand the impact of our programs and achieve mutual objectives. One way that MCC forms agency-level partnerships is via an Annual Program Statement (APS), which facilitates open, fair, and transparent competition of partnership opportunities and fosters collaboration and partnership co-creation among MCC and potential partners. The APS enables MCC and prospective partners to co-create partnerships that make best use of each organization’s distinct knowledge, networks, innovations, investments, personnel, and resources. To date, MCC has awarded over 25 partnerships via the APS using cooperative agreements, each of which required cost-sharing. Significant activities related to agency-level partnerships in FY2022 include:
  • Initiation of a partnership with Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab to establish a shared learning agenda and platform for collaboration that engages multiple stakeholders in Indonesia in the areas of financial inclusion for MSMEs and transportation infrastructure planning and implementation.
  • Initiation of a partnership with the International Finance Corporation on the Solomon Islands Threshold Program Accessing Land for Tourism Investment Facilitation Project to unlock the tourism sector’s potential to contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth.
  • Initiation of a partnership between the Solomon Islands Threshold Program and Tetra Tech to implement the Accessing Land for Tourism Investment Facilitation Project, which seeks to promote new investments in land parcels that show a high potential for attracting tourists to the Solomon Islands.
  • Initiation of a partnership with Nakau Programme, Live & Learn Environmental Education, the Natural Resources Development Foundation and Live & Learn Solomon Islands on the Solomon Islands Threshold Program Forest Value Enhancement Project to provide communities with economically viable alternatives to logging.

Country-Level Partnerships

Country-level partnerships are led by MCC’s partner country government counterparts and enable partnerships to be used to develop and implement projects and activities within compact and threshold programs. In FY2022, MCC launched a Program Partnership Solicitation (PPS) mechanism to enable MCC’s country counterparts to competitively form partnerships that are defined by competitive partner selection, co-creation, cost sharing, and joint governance during implementation.

The Government of Mozambique initiated the Integrated Climate Management and Coastal Development Project PPS for the development, implementation, cost sharing, and long-term sustainability of coastal biodiversity and fisheries habitat management interventions. This resulting partnership is expected to increase ecosystem productivity, enhance sustainable livelihoods, mitigate climate change, and continue beyond the compact implementation period until collapsing ecosystems are restored. As part of this partnership formation, MCC and the Government of Mozambique are exploring the establishment of a REDD + program to invest in the restoration and protection of coastal habitats such as mangroves and seagrasses, which have significant carbon sequestration potential, with these landscapes absorbing 5 to 15 times the carbon of tropical rainforests.

Partnership With USAID and Microsoft for DigiFemmes

In FY2022, MCC initiated the implementation of DigiFemmes in Côte d’Ivoire. DigiFemmes is a four-year partnership between the USAID Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Fund, MCC, and Microsoft. DigiFemmes focuses on empowering women-led small and medium enterprises (W-SMEs) with the data and digital literacy and skills they need to grow their businesses and access opportunities of the accelerating digital economy. DigiFemmes features two participation tracks: 1) DigiFemmes Entrepreneurs is for women who have already founded a W-SME, and 2) DigiFemmes Academy, is for women looking to acquire digital skills as software engineers or to forge an entrepreneurial path. Each track will run once a year for an initial 3-year period and aims to benefit 1,680 participants across five cities in Côte d›Ivoire.

Power Africa

To fulfill the agency’s goal of removing constraints to economic growth, MCC is undertaking major power programs in collaboration with Power Africa, a U.S. Government interagency initiative, to bring affordable electricity to the people of sub-Saharan Africa. MCC investments often pair power infrastructure enhancements with reforms in policies, laws, regulations, and practices of the relevant governmental power sector institutions, to provide the population with more access to reliable and affordable electricity. MCC assists and guides partner countries to identify, develop, and implement the appropriate energy investments, whether in infrastructure or reform, and oversees the technical aspects of the development and implementation of all energy projects funded by MCC. MCC has made energy investments worth nearly $2.2 billion (not including administrative or monitoring and evaluation related overhead costs). MCC currently oversees energy projects in Benin, The Gambia, and Senegal, which includes collaboration with regional entities like the West African Power Pool. These projects focus not only on building physical infrastructure, but also on improving the enabling environment to attract private sector investment. Examples include financing a photovoltaic solar power project in Benin with independent power producers and project finance lenders. These projects also focus on creating a more effective, sustainable, and inclusive power sector in Ghana.