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Recognizing the key role that microenterprises play in both household survival
and national economic vitality, support for microenterprise development has
featured importantly in U.S. foreign assistance for the past three decades. The United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) is the U.S. Government’s lead agency for
bilateral foreign assistance and humanitarian aid, and directly implements the
U.S. Government’s microenterprise development activities. USAID’s support for
microenterprise development has been critical in creating and advancing an
approach that meets the needs of individuals and entrepreneurs for financial and
business development services, and promotes policy changes that facilitate the
creation of enabling environments for microenterprises.
Microenterprise Results Reporting (MRR)
Microenterprise Results Reporting (MRR) is an annual report to the U.S. Congress
providing funding and program data on USAID’s microenterprise activities. The
MRR online reporting system, which supports the annual report, tracks USAID’s
progress towards congressionally mandated funding targets and monitors the
results of USAID assistance to the microenterprise sector. USAID hires an outside
contractor to implement MRR because microenterprise development is a cross-cutting
strategy that draws on funding from different sectors, and microenterprise development
data do not correspond with data reported through USAID’s internal budgeting system.
MRR is currently managed by
DAI, in close partnership with
The QED Group, LLC.
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