The sub-region of Latin America and the Caribbean has surpassed sub-Saharan Africa as the most violent part of the world.
What is the the Northern Triangle of Central America?
100
Of these three variables, this variable is most closely correlated with child mortality:
1) rural residence
2) household poverty
3) uneducated mother
What is an Uneducated mother?
100
Along with availability of food and utilization of food, this is the third facet of food security and also the one that is the biggest challenge in the LAC context.
What is access to food?
100
These core goals, known as the 5 T's, identified by the USAID education strategy and its technical guidance are meant to serve as the agency’s early-grade reading agenda (name 2).
What are:
1) More time devoted to teaching reading
2) Better techniques for teaching reading
3) More texts in the hands of children
4) Teaching children in the mother tongue (a language they speak and understand)
5) Testing reading progress
100
This up-front environmental review is required before a USAID Mission or operating unit can obligate funds for any their activities.
What is an Initial Environmental Examination or IEE?
200
This President of Peru was just quoted as having “learned a lot” from reading RSD’s AmericasBarometer survey.
Who is Ollanta Humala?
200
These seven LAC countries had USAID health programs and whose under-5 child mortality rate declined by over 60% between 1990 – 2010. Name 5.
What is Brazil, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua?
200
LAC countries have an average rank of 97 in this annual report that measures business regulations and their enforcement across 185 economies worldwide.
What is Doing Business?
200
LAC regional Scholarships for Education and Economic Development Program (SEED) program support degrees in all the following areas except:
a) Small and Medium Enterprise Management
b) Quality Control
c) Agribusiness for Export
d) Strengthening Rural Primary Education
e) Security and Law Enforcement
What is Security and Law Enforcement?
200
These sustainable logging practices are promoted by all large international conservation organizations working in the Amazon region.
What are reduced impact logging and forest certification.
300
Along with crime victimization, this endemic governance problem in LAC most undermines citizen’s confidence in democracy.
What is corruption?
300
These countries in the Western Hemisphere have an average life expectancy higher than the US. Name 2.
What is Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Cuba?
300
This is a technique developed by three Harvard economists that provides an evidence-based, yet practical way to identify the most important factors that are preventing a country from achieving faster growth.
What is a growth diagnostic?
300
75% of 3rd graders in this country are estimated to be functionally illiterate (i.e. cannot read or understand the most basic grade-level text).
What is the Dominican Republic?
300
This region is the richest and most diverse region on Earth, but also has some of its highest rates of deforestation.
What is the Andean Amazon region?
400
Of the three branches of government, one is particularly powerful in Latin America and prone to undermining the independence of the others.
What is the Executive Branch?
400
This common infectious disease requires 6 mos or more of daily antibiotic treatment to cure?
What is TB?
400
Registration, collections, and audit are all core aspects of this critical governmental function.
What is a tax administration?
400
11% of this country's public (government) budget is used to fund education.
What is Jamaica?
400
This phenomenon, caused by warming global temperatures, is causing unpredictable changes to the water supply throughout the Andean region and is likely to severely diminish water availability for major cities and the agricultural sector, potentially causing instability in the region.
What is glacial melt?
500
This event in the mid-1980s led to the creation of the Democracy and Human Rights Team in RSD, and to the first democracy and governance programs in the history of USAID?
What is the murder of American nuns in the civil war in El Salvador, and the civil wars in Central America more generally.
500
This many people in the Americas are infected with TB?
1) 10,000
2) 400,000
3) 600,000
What is 601,000?
500
Despite recent improvements, the LAC region suffers from among the highest rates of income inequality anywhere in the world, according to this measure.
What is the Gini Coefficient?
500
This many countries in Central America require a 4-year university degree in order to teach primary school.
What is 1?
500
These actions are taken to help communities and ecosystems cope with changing conditions that result from climate change.