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Millennium Challenge Account - Niger
In December 2018, MCC’s Board of Directors selected Niger as eligible for concurrent compacts in order to determine if there are compacts that meet MCC’s strict investment criteria, and the country’s ability to work with MCC and a partner country.
Millennium Challenge Account - Namibia
The Namibian Compact aims to increase the competence of the Namibian workforce through knowledge and skills, as well as to increase the productivity of agricultural and nonagricultural enterprises in rural areas.
Millennium Challenge Account - Mozambique
MCC sought to increase productivity, income generation and poverty reduction in the northern provinces of Mozambique by improving water and sanitation, roads, land tenure, and agriculture.
Millennium Challenge Account - Morocco
The Millennium Challenge Account-Morocco Agency (MCA-Morocco) is a public institution with legal personality and financial autonomy. Created in September 2016, the Agency is in charge of the implementation of Compact II. The MCA-Morocco Agency is administered by a Strategic Orientation Council, chaired by the Head of Government and assisted by a management committee in overseeing the implementation of Compact II.
Millennium Challenge Account - Mongolia
MCC's compact with Mongolia invested in strengthening property rights, reducing non-communicable diseases and injuries, bolstering vocational education, reducing air pollution, and constructing an all-weather road to link markets.
Millennium Challenge Account - Lesotho
The MCC compact integrated conclusions from Lesotho’s poverty reduction plan, the result of a three-year consultative process led by the government involving 20,000 people in 200 villages across the country.
By the end of the compact in September 2013, the government and MCC had spent nearly 99 percent of anticipated compact funds to improve water supply, increase access to essential health services, and remove barriers to private sector investment. Approximately 1 million people are expected to benefit from the investments.
Millennium Challenge Account - Indonesia
The program sought to reduce corruption by bolstering several key anti-corruption institutions, and boost immunization rates through a decentralized and sustainable immunization management system.
Millennium Challenge Account - Burkina Faso
In December 2018, MCC’s Board of Directors selected Burkina Faso as eligible for concurrent compacts in order to determine if there are compacts that meet MCC’s strict investment criteria, and the country’s ability to work with MCC and a partner country.
Microbuild Fund
Habitat’s MicroBuild Fund is the first housing-focused microfinance investment vehicle dedicated to helping low-income families. The fund lends to microfinance institutions, which in turn provide small loans to families to build safe, decent and durable homes as their finances allow. The fund has grown rapidly and has provided access to better housing for more than 643,000 people as of September 30, 2018.