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OUR WORK

Culture & Language Experience

Vikāra Institute has experience working in 50+ countries, applying systems change lenses to adapt methodologies and approaches to different cultural contexts. Training courses have been translated into 15 languages including French, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as Haitian Creole and others.

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Regions

Vikāra is a global operation and has run projects and activities across a vast array of countries.

(*Formerly operating as EcoVentures International.)

Africa

​Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Liberia
Madagascar
​Mozambique
Nigeria

​Rwanda

Senegal

Sierra Leone

South Africa

Tanzania
Uganda
​Zambia
​Zimbabwe

Latin America & The Caribbean

Antigua & Barbuda
Barbados
Brazil
Costa Rica
Dominica
Ecuador
Grenada

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

St. Kitts & Nevis

St. Lucia
St. Vincent & the Grenadine

Middle East

​Afghanistan
Egypt
Jordan

Morocco
Pakistan

Iraq

Asia Pacific

​Bangladesh

Burma (Myanmar)
Cambodia
East Timor

(Timor Leste)

Mongolia

​Nepal
Philippines
​Solomon Islands​
​Thailand

Europe

​Azerbaijan
​Denmark

​Poland​
​Ukraine

North America

Mexico​
​United States

Projects

Vikāra Institute has worked on and supported the following projects in various capacities over the years (including under our previous operational name EcoVentures International (EVI)).

  • BIOPAMA's Solomon Islands project

  • DFAT Solomon Islands’s Strongim Bisnis project

  • DFID's Market Assistance Programme (MAP)

  • EKN's Accelerating Agriculture and Agribusiness in South Sudan for Enhanced Economic Development (A3-SEED)

  • FCDO's Samarth Nepal Market Development Programme    

  • FCDO Regional Study of Market Development Learning Networks    

  • Feed the Future Knowledge, Data, Learning and Training (KDLT) Activity

  • Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity

  • Habitat for Humanity International, Housing Ecosystems Assessment

  • Humanity United's Better Brick Nepal project

  • IFDC’s 2SCALE projects across sub-Saharan Africa

  • Sida's Food Security Through Climate Adaptation and Resilience (FAR II) project

  • Sida's GROW Liberia project

  • Sida's Road2Jobs (R2J) Afghanistan project

  • Sida’s Rwanda Creating Off-Farm Rural Enterprises (CORE) project

  • USAID Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) Activity

  • USAID Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) Activity

  • USAID Enabling Market Integration through Rural Group Empowerment (EMIRGE) Activity

  • USAID Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) Activity 

  • USAID Market Systems Resilience Measurement (MSRM) under Africa Lead II

  • USAID Nepal Feed the Future Nepal Agricultural Inputs Activity (Ag Inputs)

  • USAID Southern Africa Buy In Activity 

  • USAID/Bangladesh Agricultural Value Chain (AVC)

  • USAID/Bangladesh Knowledge-Driven Agricultural Development (KDAD) Activity

  • USAID/Bangladesh Nobo Jatra Activity

  • USAID/Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops (RDC) activity

  • USAID/Burkina Faso Moving Energy Initiative (MEI) Activity

  • USAID/Cambodia’s Feed the Future Harvest II

  • USAID/Ethiopia Market Systems for Growth (MS4G) Activity

  • USAID/Ethiopia Transforming Agriculutre (ETA) Activity

  • USAID/Haiti Programme d’Appui à la Rentabilisation de l’Elevage (PARE) Activity

  • USAID/Honduras Transforming Market Systems (TMS)

  • USAID/Kenya Crops and Dairy Market Systems (KCDMS)

  • USAID/Liberia Agriculture for Children’s Empowerment (ACE) activity

  • USAID/Mozambique Feed the Future Mozambique Innovations (INOVA)

  • USAID/Mozambique Partnering for Innovation

  • USAID/Myanmar’s Agriculture and Food Systems Development (AFDA) 

  • USAID/Nepal KISAN II activity

  • USAID/Nepal Knowledge-Based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition (KISAN II)

  • USAID/Nepal Seeds and Fertilizer (NSAF) activity

  • USAID/Rwanda Nguriza Nshore activity

  • USAID/Ukraine Agriculture and Rural Development Support (ARDS) activity

  • USAID/Ukraine Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities (AGRO)

  • USAID/Uzbekistan Market Systems Transformed Activity

  • USDA and USAID/Kenya Resilience Measurement of Market Systems in Kenya (RMS-Kenya) Activity 

  • USDA's Maximizing Opportunities in Coffee and Cacao in the Americas (MOCCA)

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