International Development

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Global Humanitarian Assistance

Contributing to the United States’ role as the global leader in providing humanitarian assistance, Credence is honored to deliver mission support to federal customers who help populations impacted by global conflict, climate, health, and economic events. We have cultivated a passionate, diverse, growing workforce to meet these humanitarian challenges through myriad mission support services, emerging technology solutions, predictive analytics, and AI/ML. Our staff and leadership have lived in underprivileged countries and strive to leverage entrepreneurship for the greater good, both through our humanitarian programs and through our philanthropic efforts.

USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Support Contract (BHASC)

Credence helps USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to people across the world 24x7x365. BHA responds to a growing average of 75 humanitarian events afflicting more than 70 countries each year. We support these operations by providing field programs support; emerging technology innovations; acquisition and assistance; information management; public information management; disaster donation communications; surge support; and training. We also issue awards to local organizations implementing early recovery, managing risk reduction, and resilience (ER4) programs and supporting refugees during humanitarian crises. We help mobilize resources and teams to respond to sudden displacement events, as well as enable data analysis and predictive analytics to expedite readiness for emergent humanitarian events.

Humanitarian and Refugee Industry Experts

Credence has a cadre of experts in humanitarian and refugee assistance, international development, global health, workforce development, human capital, and emergency operations. They are recognized industry leaders who bring a personal commitment to serving those most in need around the globe. Our SMEs bring a wealth of experience supporting these important global missions, to include advising on refugee policy for the DOS’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; serving as FEMA Press Secretary for natural disasters; and orchestrating 24/7 support for BHA’s myriad disaster and humanitarian crisis efforts.

Global Health

Our global health workforce supports USAID and our defense customers in addressing a variety of challenges related to eradicating infectious diseases; nutrition; maternal and child health; sanitation and hygiene; HIV/AIDS; emergency response (including COVID-19 and 24/7 support); environmental health; foreign medical infrastructure; and the effective use of data analytics in health program design and implementation. As a result, our team bolsters technical leadership, accelerates innovation, and increases science and technology capabilities on a variety of global health program initiatives.

USAID Global Health Technical Professionals Program Support

Credence supports the USAID Global Health (GH) Bureau’s commitment to improving global health outcomes in communities around the world by providing technical professionals at all career stages for posts both in Washington, D.C. and abroad. Our global health professionals augment the Agency’s programs addressing its three strategic priorities, including preventing child and maternal deaths, controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and combating infectious diseases. Our global health professionals help improve the technical abilities of USAID offices, teams, and working groups by bolstering technical leadership, accelerating innovation, increasing science and technology capabilities, and providing acquisition and additional services on a variety of global health program initiatives for USAID’s humanitarian assistance response and international development initiatives.

USAID Global Health Training, Advisory, and Support Contract (GHTASC)

Credence supports the Bureau for Global health (GH) in leading the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) global health programming and outbreak response with a focus on preventing child and maternal deaths, controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and combating infectious diseases. GH had identified institutional support and professional development reform as a priority to further USAID’s Transformation Agenda and GH’s Transformation Plan that includes the goals of developing agile workforce management structures and investing in a more nimble and diverse workforce. Team Credence manages the GHTASC project, which promotes effective global health programming and advances GH’s mission through strategic workforce learning and development. See our GHTASC website to learn more.

USAID Ebola Response and Recovery Support Program

As part of the response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, Credence supported USAID by playing an integral role in the response and recovery efforts of the disease in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Our team led the health communications and outreach efforts between USAID HQ, its Missions, and other global health donors and implementers. To aid the recovery effort, Credence and USAID promoted continued collaboration and coordination among donors by providing detailed activities and identifying opportunities to leverage donor resources. Our experts were on the front lines of the recovery effort, collecting monitoring and evaluating health system surveillance data in all three countries.

Patient Safety Program Support

The Air Force Patient Safety Program (PSP) is dedicated to providing safe, effective, evidence-based healthcare. With staff located at 76 locations across the globe, Credence provides project management, program integration, clinical, educational, and research support. We assist the Government with the establishment and operation of the Air Force Medical Service PSP at the MTF level, including helping educate staff on key patient safety principles; assisting with facility-wide implementation of healthcare team training; staying abreast of national patient safety initiatives; aiding in the implementation of performance improvements leading to the formulation of policies and processes that facilitate safer care; guiding organizational changes; and helping administer day-to-day PSP operations encompassing all aspects of inpatient, ambulatory care, and support functions.