After taking office in July 2006, President Alan Garcia of Peru was faced with a pressing challenge: How to address the demands and needs of people who had not yet benefited from Peru’s export-led boom. The elections revealed that a significant portion of the population mired in extreme poverty, cut off from traditional government services and demanding change. The 2002 decentralization process initiated by Garcia’s predecessor, Alejandro Toledo, had sought to address this long intractable problem. The decentralization reforms aimed to improve living conditions and the quality of public investments by giving more fiscal autonomy to local and regional governments, which were better positioned than the national government to know where resources were most urgently needed.  

Tetra Tech was a lead sponsor of the World Water Day Learning Forum: Get Schooled on WASH and Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill March 21–22, 2012, in Washington, D.C. Tetra Tech ARD’s Dr. Chris McGahey helped to organize the Learning Day Forum and moderated the first session, Water/Sanitation/Hygiene (WASH) 101: Core WASH Truths and Practices.  

March 2007–March 2011   In the past decade Macedonia has implemented numerous structural reforms, such as privatization and trade liberalization. With the signing of the European Union (EU) Stabilization and Association Agreement several years ago, Macedonia is now investing much effort to harmonize its legislation and agricultural practices with those of the EU. Despite these efforts, Macedonia must still address weaknesses before it can achieve a competitive, thriving agricultural and agribusiness sector. Such weaknesses include low productivity, a sizable trade imbalance for agriculture products, and a lack of supportive agricultural policies. These weaknesses require a series of parallel reforms that will work toward an overall improvement in the agricultural and agribusiness sector.