Icco USA

By raising the visibility of Icco's work in the us, building relationships for Icco cooperation with donors and prospective partners, and contributing to the development of funding proposals, Icco USA promoted the food and nutrition security and economic empowerment of smallholder farmers and their families, and small and medium enterprises served by implementing partner Icco cooperation through programs in 40 countries worldwide. These include: bangladesh, belize, benin, bolivia, burkina faso, burundi, cambodia, central african republic, colombia, costa rica, ecuador, ethiopia, guatemala, honduras, india, indonesia, iraq, kenya, kyrgyzstan, madagascar, malawi, mali, mexico, myanmar (burma), nepal, nicaragua, nigeria, panama, paraguay, peru, philippines, rwanda, somalia, south africa, south sudan, sudan, syria, uganda, vietnam, zimbabwe.to achieve our economic empowerment and food security goals, Icco embraces 4 pressing topics.1. Blending financeicco designs tailor-made funding mechanisms that allowfor the combined use of grants, microfinance, loans, equityand guarantees.2. Climate-resilient food systemsour food and nutrition programs take resilience to climatechange and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions intoaccount.3. New technologieswe advance the productivity of farmers and agribusinessesthrough digital new technologies that enable them to solvechallenges, as well as access a range of services and inputs.4. Youth entrepreneurshipicco supports young people to start or grow a business bydelivering a range of entrepreneurship support services,from training to access to finance and new technologies. We build public-private partnerships to leverage knowledge and resources and achieve greater outreach and results. And we are value driven and faith literate, which helps us to understandthe complexities surrounding people's religious beliefs and the role of religion in today's world.