Inter-American Foundation

A strong commitment to public service, ethical practices, compliance, and accountability to the U.S. taxpayer is at the heart of the IAF's work.

The USAID Office of the Inspector General audits 🔍 the IAF every year on its financial statements 📊, government charge card program 💳, and compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act.💻

These audits consistently find the IAF's practices to be effective and in compliance. ✅

The IAF also goes above and beyond U.S. audit requirements, independently auditing all grants over $125,000. 💵

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🚜 When farmers in our region monitor and control crop and livestock diseases, they pose less of a risk to American farmers. We support farmers who are doing this necessary work.
🐄🐄🐄 A recently-funded IAF grantee Belize Livestock Producers’ Association (BLPA), a national membership organization representing 6,000 small-scale livestock farmers, aims to improve pasture management for cattle. BLPA also works on disease monitoring and strict regulations for sale and movement of cattle in and out of Belize. This protects U.S. agriculture by monitoring pests that could affect the U.S. cattle and beef industry. 🐄🐄🐄

IAF grants promote long-term sustainability, as shown by the many former grantee organizations that are thriving decades after graduating from IAF funding.
♀️ For example, Núcleo de Apoyo a la Mujer (NAM), an organization we first funded in 1994, is now a nationally-recognized women’s organization reducing domestic violence in the Dominican Republic. NAM provides direct legal and psychosocial services to survivors. Its team also trains representatives of public institutions and businesses on violence prevention and women’s rights, using information from survivors to help them develop more data-driven laws and policies.
🕊️ We invested a total of $528,000 in NAM. It used the funding to help community groups support around 6,500 legal cases, in collaboration with police and the public prosecutor’s office.
✝️ It also reached 15,750 people with information about violence prevention through workshops, talks, awareness-raising walks, and other public activities, in coordination with the Women’s Church Foundation and Christian Workers’ Movement. NAM provided psychological services to 2,447 survivors of violence (95% female), many of whom went on to become community mentors.
☮️ Finally, NAM also strengthened civil society responses to violence and launched the Dominican Republic’s first peer support organization for survivors of intimate partner and domestic violence, Fundación Mujeres Empoderadas Abriendo Caminos.
⚖️ According to the public prosecutor’s office, working with NAM helped increase early reporting, especially among younger women. It also helped public institutions provide more comprehensive and specialized care and service to survivors of violence. For example, with guidance from NAM, the public prosecutor’s office got a specialist to handle sexual crimes.

🚨 Communities in southern Mexico have faced an invasion of transnational narcotraffickers over the last year and a half. This has left residents afraid to pursue their work or gather in public, and the stress on the communities has worsened preexisting conflicts within and between families.
✝️ The IAF has been funding a faith-based organization with a strong network of nuns, priests, and lay volunteers with experience in reducing violence among Catholic parishes in mostly Indigenous communities in Chiapas.
🕊️ We have supported them to pursue new evidence-based violence prevention strategies from organizations like Catholic Relief Services.
👪 In communities with strong ties to the church, our grantee has been supporting families to resolve conflicts and form stronger bonds at the community level to reduce the harm caused by narcotraffickers.

✝️ The IAF funds an organization founded by the Catholic Church to address violent conflict in parishes throughout Mexico, with a particular emphasis on long-standing conflicts in the southern state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala.
Of the 200 community leaders who have graduated in the last 3 years from its National School for Peace:
🔪 Most live and work in areas where narcotrafficking organizations unleash violence that can paralyze local residents.
⚖️ About 60% belong to a local group to find justice for loved ones murdered or disappeared through transnational criminal activity.
🕊️ About 70% apply the vital skills they learned to transform violence and conflict into positive outcomes almost daily.
👮 As a result, 55% have improved their own security and that of their community organizations.

👪 Parents in El Progreso, Honduras, were alarmed by rising crime, gang recruitment, unemployment, school abandonment, and youth emigration. They asked Catholic organization Acción Cultural Popular Honduras (ACPH) to “help us save our kids.”
⛪ Together with community leaders from local Catholic and Evangelical churches and school teachers, ACPH established the area’s first vocational and job readiness youth training program. With IAF funding, 300 young people and 100 adults have received training in refrigeration, graphic design, commercial food preparation, and other technical skills tailored to the local job market through private sector engagement. Programs like ACPH’s create opportunities that allow people to stay in their home countries rather than migrate elsewhere for jobs and stability.

⛪ Led by Catholic nuns of the Scalabrinian order, IAF grantee Misión Scalabriniana has helped more than 3,000 host community members and migrants from Venezuela and elsewhere promote integration in five provinces of northern Ecuador.
✝️ Drawing on their moral leadership from their religious affiliation and years of sustained community work, the nuns have mobilized young school students, Ecuadorians and new arrivals alike, to build a culture of positive coexistence.
🏫 Around 65% of participant parents now feel more secure sending their children to school, increasing the likelihood they will stay and not need to migrate to other countries like the United States. Their efforts have also boosted the incomes of migrant-owned businesses by up to 30%.

IAF grants promote long-term sustainability, as shown by the many former grantee organizations that are thriving decades after graduating from IAF funding. IAF representatives visit organizations before funding them to make sure they are as strong in person as they look on paper, and to assess their capacity to ensure the American people receive a return on their investment.
🍫 El Ceibo helped Bolivian Indigenous families go from farming only to feed themselves, to producing world-quality chocolate for sale around the world. We started funding them in 1980, four years after they launched, and invested a total of $436,522 in them as they industrialized their artisan chocolate production and took over the entire chain of production and sale, ensuring benefits flowed directly to farming families.
👩‍🌾 Today, El Ceibo operates independent of IAF support and is one of Bolivia’s top exporters. It represents ~50 cacao farmers’ associations made up of ~1,200 Indigenous Aymara, Quechua, and Moseten farmers. It was the first organization to export organic cacao to high-end markets in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
🇺🇸 U.S. companies benefit from El Ceibo’s products: as of 2019, El Ceibo boasted ~$9 million in sales and its products were sold in at least 15 U.S. states, including in more than 230 small businesses and in Whole Foods stores.
👮 This economic development project has also contributed to securing the region from international drug trafficking networks. By strengthening value-added agricultural production in a region where coca production is prevalent, El Ceibo provides farmers an ongoing alternative to fueling the illegal co***ne trade.

⛪ An IAF grantee is carrying out faith-based violence reduction activities within Catholic networks by engaging men and boys in more than 340 Indigenous communities in Mexico.
✝️ Xilotl Asociación para el Desarrollo Social has delivered targeted training to 87 religious, school, and Indigenous government leaders who have committed to modeling family relations without violence.
👨‍👦 These community leaders have begun bringing their adolescent sons to training sessions to spread the positive changes they have seen in their lives and families.

⛪ We have been working with organizations founded by and affiliated with religious institutions, such as Catholic and Evangelical churches, from our earliest grants.
✝️ Faith-based organizations play an important role in providing families and communities with economic and social support.
✝️They can also bring moral authority and trust to complex issues requiring transformational change. For example, faith-based organizations have a special advantage in efforts to reduce violence against women and to integrate migrants and refugees within the region.
✝️ These organizations are often deeply rooted in communities and networked together, making them particularly well-positioned to channel local priorities.
The work the IAF funds is always non-proselytizing, non-ideological, and accessible to people of all faiths. We select organizations that are advancing communities’ medium and long-term development goals.