MESA’s Global Partners actively promote sustainable agriculture in their home countries, and share a desire for exchange and knowledge transfer between agricultural communities worldwide.

MESA Global Partners agree to:

• Recruit, screen and prepare steward candidates for U.S. training in sustainable agriculture, based on strict eligibility criteria for MESA and the J-1 visa category
• Provide support for confirmed MESA stewards before, during, and after their U.S. training program
• Collaborate with MESA to develop new programmatic offerings for prospective stewards, in line with the needs of rural communities in the respective countries
• Facilitate opportunities for MESA alumni to share their experiences and showcase their projects
• Represent MESA's program and your country's steward alumni at regional and international conferences
• Align with affiliate organizations that can provide career opportunities for returning stewards in the field of sustainable agriculture and community rural development

Check out our active Global Partners.

MESA gives strong preference to Global Partners with proven fundraising track records, and ability to either fully provide or subsidize pre-U.S. arrival costs for worthy stewards, thus ensuring access to our program regardless of a steward’s economic background.

Approved Global Partners receive updated MESA Program information in July for the next Core Training Program that begins the last week in March annually.

If your NGO or University would like to join our growing network of Global Partners, please look over the preliminary questionnaire in the Global Partner toolkit and submit your responses to us in an email mesa [at] mesaprogram [dot] org.