What Development International Does

Through its involvement in various aspects of global development, Development International:

• Connects with local communities worldwide and helps them articulate their development needs
• Helps local communities and private and governmental project clients develop project concepts to address their needs while ensuring that the projects meet the guidelines of all development funders
• Helps local communities communicate with development entities worldwide, including the U.S. government, multilateral development banks, technology experts, international businesses, and academic experts.
• Develops and maintains Community Partnership Centers in host countries
• Discusses countrywide development goals with host country governments and their diplomatic missions abroad
• Develops and maintains a database of country and regional profiles with important real-time information and hard to find locally-sourced information
• Provides project intake for the Alliance for Resilience and Global Empowerment and coordinates all communication between the host country of the project clients and the various entities of the Alliance
  

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Project Facilitation via the Alliance for Global Development and the Collaborative Project Process

Development International augments its mission by serving the international relations and outreach function of the Alliance for Global Development (the Alliance) and the innovative Collaborative Project Development Process (the CP Process) for facilitating the funding and implementation of projects in global development. In this role, DI handles all communication and coordination between host country constituencies and the Alliance, determines project prioritization, identifies and maintains relations with project clients and other host country stakeholders, and handles the project intake process.
 
The Alliance is a group of non-profit and for-profit entities that links the public and private sectors and domestic and international interests to improve global development projects through sole sourcing, which significantly reduces the time to secure project funding and procure goods and services compared to the traditional request for proposals process. The Alliance analyzes a client’s project concept, identifies appropriate technology experts to help the client effectively design the project, matches the best companies to supply goods and services, ensures that the project meets all funding guidelines, and then presents the strategically designed project directly to the appropriate donor agency to facilitate rapid funding of the project. The Alliance’s projects include all development sectors, typically range between $50 million to $500 million, and must have a significant social, economic, and humanitarian impact on the host community.