Working with local and institutional actors, the Project will promote the participation of the private sector, local governments, Congress, civilian police, government institutions, community and youth leaders and other actors in the implementation and oversight of key prevention policy reforms and youth-oriented prevention programs. The emphasis of this project is to strengthen community and public sector institutions by ensuring the replication of successful initiatives and the development and implementation of new ones. With this effort, USAID seeks to promote coordinated action and broad participation in crime prevention, while developing effective and comprehensive community-based strategies involving the private sector.
Over a period of five years, the Project aims to achieve the following results:

• Reduce the incidence of crime through crime prevention activities;
• Prevent and reduce the risk of youth entering into or continuing in a life of crime by improving and expanding services provided to at-risk youth;
• Promote collaborative interventions among young people, parents, community institutions, and business leaders coming together to address and meet the needs of at-risk youth;
• Strengthen and consolidate the Youth Alliance Association and other local institutions;
• Improve and expand the existing job placement network through private sector alliances, such that it remains useful and self-sustaining;
• Provide market-driven skills enhancement to youth in neighborhoods with high crime incidence and gang activity;
• Spur municipal economic development and security infrastructure development through a community action fund;
• Assist key national-level institutions and local governments to improve crime prevention services;
• Expand community-based policing; and
• Implement Mérida crime prevention-related activities for a three-year period.

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