Media Mentions

• Uganda’s Sunday Monitor of May 16, 2010 features a Special Report on USAID’s NUTI Program.  This program is funded by USAID and implemented by Casals & Associates, Inc. Read full article (PDF format)

• The Washington Business Journal published an article on Jan. 27, 2010, on DynCorp International’s acquisition of Casals & Associates. Read article

• The Dec. 8, 2009, issue of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) MCC in Action featured an article on Casals & Associates’ MCC Threshold anticorruption project in Paraguay. The article discussed the more modern and secure national identification card and passport system the project funded for Paraguay. Read full article

• The celebration marking the completion of campus repairs at Y.Y. Okot Memorial College, a school for girls in Kitgum, northern Uganda, was featured in a success story posted on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) website in October 2009. The repairs were funded through the USAID OTI project Casals & Associates manages. Read success story

• “Anticorruption Initiatives: Do Small Stuff Count?” a report by Casals & Associates Senior Associate Olga Nazario, Ph.D., was published in September 2009 on the American Bar Association (ABA) website. The report was written for the ABA 2009 Fall Meeting. Read report

• A September 2009 success story posted on the USAID OTI website detailed a creative way USAID OTI mitigated environmental degradation in Pabbo, northern Uganda, while providing a source of income and food for farmers. The 10,000 orange, mango, lemon and jackfruit seedlings featured in the success story were funded through the USAID OTI project Casals & Associates manages. Read success story

• A thanksgiving ceremony Casals & Associates organized in northern Uganda to help reconcile two formerly warring clans was highlighted in a success story posted on the USAID OTI website in May 2009. Read success story

• The May 2009 issue of PODER, a premier business magazine serving a global audience, cited Beatriz Casals as an expert in anticorruption and quoted her on Guatemala’s challenges. Read full article

• The May 18, 2009, edition of El Periódico de Mexico featured Casals President Beatriz Casals’ remarks about the financial crisis. She spoke at the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management’s annual conference, an event which Casals & Associates sponsored. Read full article (in Spanish)

• Ultima Hora, a daily newspaper in Paraguay, featured an article on April 22, 2009, on the U.S. Embassador presenting two fully equipped mobile units to a new forensics lab. The new lab was funded under the USAID MCC Threshold Country Program Casals & Associates is implementing. Read full article (in Spanish)

• Casals & Associates Senior Technical Advisor Gerardo Berthin, Ph.D., is quoted in the April 11, 2009, edition of the Miami Herald on corruption and Hemispheric leaders’ preparation for the Summit of the Americas. Read full article

• A speech Casals & Associates President Beatriz Casals gave during the 44th Annual Conference of Executives (abbreviated CADE in Spanish) was the focus of an editorial in the April 2, 2009, edition of Crítica, a Panama City newspaper. Read editorial (in Spanish)

• The Earth Times ran an article on March 11, 2009, about USAID awarding Abt Associates a five-year, $17.8 million contract to improve private sector competitiveness while protecting biodiversity in Mexico. Casals & Associates is mentioned in the article as a member of the Abt team. Read full article

• A March 2, 2009, article in the Panama Post focused on how “serious politics” will bring the business community to the 44th Annual Conference of Executives (abbreviated CADE in Spanish). The article mentions that Casals & Associates President Beatriz Casals will speak at the conference on governance and public policy. Read full article

• The Uganda national weekly magazine Independent featured an article in its Feb. 13, 2009, edition on cleansing ceremonies supported by Casals & Associates’ USAID OTI project in northern Uganda. The article concerns reburial ceremonies for tens of thousand of human remains. Read full article

• Public Radio of Armenia ran a story on Feb. 3, 2009, on the opening of the Advocacy and Assistance Center of Yerevan, which is helping citizens resolve corruption-related problems. The center is funded through the USAID Mobilizing Action Against Corruption (MAAC) project, which Casals & Associates manages. Read full article

• Casals & Associates Senior Technical Advisor Gerardo Berthin, Ph.D., is quoted on the back cover of the International Council on Human Rights Policy’s 2009 publication, “Corruption and Human Rights: Making the Connection.” Read full publication

• The February 2009 issue of the USAID Frontlines newsletter featured an article about investigative reporting training for Guatemalan journalists. This training was provided under the anticorruption project Casals & Associates manages in Guatemala. Eduardo Flores-Trejo, the article’s author, is the project’s chief of party. Read full article

• An article on Ugandans returning to their homes with U.S. help after a protracted civil war appeared in the December 2008-January 2009 issue of the USAID Frontlines newsletter. Casals & Associates manages the USAID OTI project described in the article. Read full issue (Uganda article is on page 5)

• The Jan. 16, 2009, issue of Armenia’s ArmeniaNow featured an article on the USAID-funded anticorruption centers Casals & Associates is opening throughout the country. Read full article