U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 541 telecommunications, transportation, and to be included in TDA’s consultant water resources. database and considered for future solicitations should contact TDA’s Activities Contracts Office at 703–875–4357. The Agency funds feasibility studies (or In an effort to provide timely project plans) which evaluate the information on Agency-supported technical, economic, and financial projects, TDA publishes the Pipeline and aspects of a development project. These a calendar of events which are available studies advise the host nation about the together on a paid subscription basis by availability of U.S. goods and services calling 703–875–4246. They are also and are required by financial institutions available through the Internet, at in assessing the creditworthiness of the www.tda.gov. A quarterly publication, undertaking. Funding activities are based TDA Update, contains current items of upon an official request for assistance interest on a variety of program made by the sponsoring government or activities. Region- or sector-specific fact private sector organization of a sheets and case studies also are developing or middle-income nation, available. An annual report summarizes and costs for a study typically are shared the Agency’s activities. between TDA and the U.S. firm Agency news, reports, and lists of developing the project. The Agency makes decisions on upcoming orientation visits and business funding requests for feasibility studies briefings are available through the based on the recommendations Internet, at www.tda.gov. contained in the definitional mission or Regional program inquiries should be desk study report, the advice of the U.S. directed to the assigned Country Embassy, and its internal analysis. Manager. Phone, 703–875–4357. Fax, 703–875–4009. E-mail, [email protected]. Sources of Information TDA’s library maintains final reports Requests for proposals (RFP’s) to conduct on all TDA activities. These are available feasibility studies funded by TDA are for public review Monday through Friday listed in the Commerce Business Daily. from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Copies of Information on definitional mission completed feasibility studies must be opportunities can be obtained by calling purchased through the Department of TDA’s DM Hotline at 703–875–7447. Commerce’s National Technical Small and minority U.S. firms that wish Information Service (NTIS).

For further information, contact the Trade and Development Agency, Suite 200, 1621 North Kent Street, Arlington, VA. 22209–2131. Phone, 703–875–4357. Fax, 703–875–4009. E-mail, [email protected]. Internet, www.tda.gov.

UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523–0001 Phone, 202–712–0000. Internet, www.info.usaid.gov.

Administrator J. BRADY ANDERSON Deputy Administrator HARRIET C. BABBITT Counselor JAMES H. MICHEL Chief of Staff B.A. RUDOLPH Executive Secretary RYAN CONROY 542 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for THOMAS H. FOX Policy and Program Coordination Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged IVAN R. ASHLEY Business Utilization/Minority Resource Center Assistant Administrator for VIVIAN LOWERY DERRYCK Assistant Administrator for and the Near ROBERT RANDOLPH East Assistant Administrator for and the DONALD L. PRESSLEY New Independent States Assistant Administrator for Global Programs, BARBARA N. TURNER, Acting Field Support, and Research Assistant Administrator for Humanitarian HUGH PARMER Response Assistant Administrator for and CARL H. LEONARD, Acting the Caribbean Assistant Administrator for Legislative and JOSEPH R. CRAPA Public Affairs Assistant Administrator for Management RICHARD C. BROWN, Acting Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs JESSALYN L. PENDARVIS Director, Office of Security C. MICHAEL FLANNERY General Counsel SINGLETON B. MCALLISTER Inspector General EVERETT L. MOSLEY, Acting [For the Agency for International Development statement of organization, see the Federal Register of Aug. 26, 1987, 52 FR 32174]

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administers U.S. foreign economic and humanitarian assistance programs worldwide in the developing world, Central and Eastern Europe, and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union.

The Agency for provides humanitarian assistance and aid International Development (USAID) was to countries in crisis and transition. established as an independent agency by Population and Health The Agency section 1413 of the Foreign Affairs contributes to a cooperative global effort Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to stabilize world population growth and (112 Stat. 2681–791) and serves as the support women’s reproductive rights. focal point within the Government for The types of population and health economic matters affecting U.S. relations programs supported vary with the with developing countries. USAID particular needs of individual countries administers international economic and and the kinds of approaches that local humanitarian assistance programs. The communities initiate and support. Most Administrator is under the direct USAID resources are directed to the authority and foreign policy guidance of following areas: support for voluntary the Secretary of State. family planning systems, reproductive health care, needs of adolescents and Programs young adults, infant and child health, and education for girls and women. The Agency meets its post-cold war era Economic Growth The Agency challenges by utilizing its strategy for promotes broad-based economic growth achieving sustainable development in by addressing the factors that enhance developing countries. It supports the capacity for growth and by working programs in four areas: population and to remove the obstacles that stand in the health, broad-based economic growth, way of individual opportunity. In this environment, and democracy. It also context, programs concentrate on U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 543 DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS/MINORITY BUREAU FOR RESOURCES CENTER OFFICE OF SMALL AND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PROGRAM POLICY AND SECURITY BUREAU FOR OFFICE OF COORDINATION OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL BUREAU FOR EUROPE AND THE NEW INDEPENDENT STATES OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL BUREAU FOR THE CARIBBEAN LATIN AMERICA AND OVERSEAS MISSIONS DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE OF PROGRAMS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BUREAU FOR ASIA AND THE BUREAU FOR UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC AFFAIRS LEGISLATIVE AND BUREAU FOR EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT SECRETARIAT OFFICE OF THE AFRICA BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR AND RESEARCH FIELD SUPPORT, GLOBAL PROGRAMS, 544 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL strengthening market economies, minorities; failure to implement national expanding economic opportunities for charter documents; powerless or poorly the less advantaged in developing defined democratic institutions; tainted countries, and building human skills and elections; and the inability to resolve capacities to facilitate broad-based conflicts peacefully. participation. Humanitarian Assistance and Post-Crisis Environment The Agency’s Transitions The Agency provides environmental programs support two humanitarian assistance that saves lives, strategic goals: reducing long-term reduces suffering, helps victims return to threats to the global environment, self-sufficiency, and reinforces particularly loss of biodiversity and democracy. Programs focus on disaster climate change; and promoting prevention, preparedness, and sustainable economic growth locally, mitigation; timely delivery of disaster nationally, and regionally by addressing relief and short-term rehabilitation environmental, economic, and supplies and services; preservation of developmental practices that impede basic institutions of civil governance development and are unsustainable. during disaster crisis; support for Globally, Agency programs focus on democratic institutions during periods of reducing sources and enhancing sinks of national transition; and building and greenhouse gas emissions and on reinforcement of local capacity to promoting innovative approaches to the anticipate and handle disasters and their conservation and sustainable use of the aftermath. planet’s biological diversity. The approach to national environmental Overseas Organizations problems differs on a country-by-country U.S. Agency for International basis, depending on a particular Development country organizations are country’s environmental priorities. located in countries where a bilateral Country strategies may include program is being implemented. The in- improving agricultural, industrial, and country organizations are subject to the natural resource management practices direction and guidance of the chief U.S. that play a central role in environmental diplomatic representative in the country, degradation; strengthening public usually the Ambassador. The policies and institutions to protect the organizations report to the Agency’s environment; holding dialogs with Assistant Administrators for the four country governments on environmental geographic bureaus: the Bureaus for issues and with international agencies on Africa, Asia and Near East, Europe and the environmental impact of lending the New Independent States, and Latin practices and the design and America and the Caribbean. implementation of innovative The overseas program activities that mechanisms to support environmental involve more than one country are work; and environmental research and administered by regional offices. These education. offices may also perform country Democracy The Agency’s strategic organizational responsibilities for objective in the democracy area is the assigned countries. Generally, the offices transition to and consolidation of are headed by a regional development democratic regimes throughout the officer. world. Programs focus on such problems Development Assistance Coordination as: human rights abuses; misperceptions and Representative Offices provide about democracy and free-market liaison with various international capitalism; lack of experience with organizations and represent U.S. interests democratic institutions; the absence or in development assistance matters. Such weakness of intermediary organizations; offices may be only partially staffed by nonexistent, ineffectual, or undemocratic Agency personnel and may be headed political parties; disenfranchisement of by employees of other U.S. Government women, indigenous peoples, and agencies. U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 545

Country OrganizationsÐU.S. Agency for Country OrganizationsÐU.S. Agency for International Development International Development—Continued

Country Officer in Charge 1 Country Officer in Charge 1

Albania ...... Howard Sumka (MD) Liberia ...... Rudolph Thomas (MD) Angola ...... Keith E. Simmons (MD) Lithuania ...... Christine Sheckler, Acting ...... Dianne Tsitsos (MD) (MD) Azerbaijan ...... William McKinney (DO) Macedonia, FRY ...... Stephen Haynes (MD) Bangladesh ...... Gordon H. West (MD) Madagascar ...... Karen M. Poe (MD)

Belarus ...... Robert Simpson (DO) Malawi ...... Kiertisak Toh (MD)

Benin ...... Thomas E. Park (MD) Mali ...... James Hradsky (MD)

Bolivia ...... Liliana Ayalde (MD) Mexico ...... Paul White (MD) Bosnia ...... Edward Kadunc (MD) Moldova ...... Tom Lofgren (DO) Brazil ...... Janice Weber (MD) Mongolia ...... Edward W. Birgells (MD) Bulgaria ...... William Foerderer (MD) Montenegro, FRY ...... Richard Hough (MD) Burundi ...... Donald R. MacKenzie, Act-

ing (MD) Morocco ...... James F. Bednar (MD)

Cambodia ...... Willard J. Pearson, Jr. (MD) Mozambique ...... Cynthia Rozell (MD)

Colombia ...... George Wachtenheim (MD) Namibia ...... Carol Scherrer-Palma (MD) Croatia ...... Charles R. Aaneson (MD) Nepal ...... Joanne T. Hale (MD) Democratic Republic of the Ronald Harvey (MD) Nicaragua ...... Marilyn Zak (MD) Congo. Nigeria ...... Thomas Hobgood (MD) Dominican Republic ...... Leopoldo Garza, Acting Panama ...... Lars Klassen (MD) (MD) Paraguay ...... Wayne Tate (MD) Ecuador ...... Hilda Arellano (MD) Peru ...... Thomas Geiger (MD) Egypt ...... Richard M. Brown (MD) Philippines ...... Patrick K. Buckles (MD) El Salvador ...... Kenneth Ellis (MD) Poland ...... Paula Goddard (MD)

Eritrea ...... William Garvelink (MD) Romania ...... Denny Robertson (MD)

Ethiopia ...... Doug Sheldon (MD) Russia ...... Carol Peasley (MD)

Georgia ...... Michael Farbman (MD) ...... George Lewis (MD)

Ghana ...... Frank J. Young (MD) Senegal ...... Donald Clark (MD) Guatemala ...... George Carner (MD) Serbia, FRY ...... Richard Hough (MD) Guinea ...... Harry Birnholz (MD) Slovakia ...... Paula Goddard (MD) Guinea-Bissau ...... Donald Clark, Acting (MD) South Africa ...... William S. Rhodes (MD) Guyana ...... Carol Becker (MD) Sri Lanka ...... Lisa Chiles (MD) ...... Phyllis Dichter-Forbes (MD)

Honduras ...... Elena Brineman (MD) Tajikistan ...... Peter Downs (DO)

India ...... Linda E. Morse (MD) Tanzania ...... Lucretia Taylor (MD) Indonesia ...... Desaix B. Meyers III (MD) The Gambia ...... Donald Clark, Acting (MD)

Israel ...... Larry Garber (MD) Uganda ...... Dawn Liberi (MD) Jamaica ...... Mosina Jordan (MD) Ukraine ...... Christopher Crowley (MD) Jordan ...... Lewis W. Lucke (MD) Uzbekistan ...... Theresa Ware (DO) Kazakstan ...... Glenn Anders (MD) Zambia ...... Walter North (MD) ...... Jonathan Conly (MD) Zimbabwe ...... Rose Marie Depp (MD)

REDSO in Kenya ...... Donald MacKenzie (MD) 1 MD: Mission Director; D: Director; OR: Office of the AID Kosovo ...... Craig Buck (MD) Representative; DO: Development Officer; RD: Regional Di- Kyrgyz Republic ...... Tracy Atwood (DO) rector; AAO: AID Affairs Officer for Section of Embassy; Lebanon ...... James Stephenson (MD) CO: Coordinator in Washington International OrganizationsÐU.S. Agency for International Development (Selected Regional Organizations) (A: Adviser; C: Counselor; D: Director; ED: Executive Director; MD: Mission Director; AID R: USAID Representative; RD: Regional Director)

Office Officer in Charge

Regional Offices Regional Center for Southern AfricaÐGaborone, Botswana ...... Edward Spriggs (RD) Regional Economic Development Services OfficesÐNairobi, Kenya ...... Donald R. MacKenzie (RD) Regional Support CenterÐBudapest, Hungary ...... Patricia Lerner (RD) International Organizations and USAID Contacts Office for Humanitarian Assistance, World Food Program AffairsÐRome, Italy ...... Douglas Sheldon (RD) Office of the U.S. Representative to the Development Assistance Committee of the Organiza- Kelly Kammerer (AID R) tion for Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentÐParis, France. U.S. Mission to the European Office of the United Nations and Other International Organiza- Nance Kyloh (AID R) tionsÐGeneva, Switzerland. AID Office for Development CooperationÐTokyo, Japan ...... (Vacancy) (C) Office of AID Coordination RepresentativeÐBrussels, Belgium ...... Kurt Fuller (C) 546 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Sources of Information

General Inquiries Inquiries may be Workforce Planning, Recruitment, and directed to the Bureau for Legislative and Personnel Systems Division, Office of Public Affairs, USAID/LPA, Washington, Human Resources, U.S. Agency for DC 20523–0001. Phone, 202–712– International Development, Washington, 4810. Fax, 202–216–3524. DC 20523–0001. Internet, Congressional Affairs Congressional www.info.usaid.gov. inquiries may be directed to the Bureau General Inquiries General inquiries for Legislative and Public Affairs, USAID/ may be directed to the Bureau for LPA, Washington, DC 20523–0001. Legislative and Public Affairs, USAID/ Phone, 202–712–4810. LPA, Washington, DC 20523–0001. Contracting and Small Business Inquiries For information regarding contracting Phone, 202–712–4810. Fax, 202–216– opportunities, contact the Office of Small 3524. and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, News Media Inquiries from the media U.S. Agency for International only should be directed to the Press Development, Washington, DC 20523– Relations Division, Bureau for Legislative 0001. Phone, 202–712–1500. Fax, 202– and Public Affairs, USAID/LPA, 216–3056. Washington, DC 20523–0001. Phone, Employment For information regarding 202–712–4320. employment opportunities, contact the

For further information, contact the United States Agency for International Development, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523–0001. Phone, 202–712–0000. Internet, www.info.usaid.gov.

UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 624 Ninth Street NW., Washington, DC 20425 Phone, 202–376–8177. Internet, www.usccr.gov.

Chairperson MARY FRANCES BERRY Vice Chairman CRUZ REYNOSO Commissioners CARL A. ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHER EDLEY, JR., YVONNE Y. LEE, ELSIE M. MEEKS, RUSSELL G. REDENBAUGH, VICTORIA WILSON Staff Director RUBY G. MOY Deputy Staff Director (VACANCY) General Counsel EDWARD A. HAILES, JR., Acting Solicitor EDWARD A. HAILES, JR., Acting Assistant Staff Director for Civil Rights (VACANCY) Evaluation Assistant Staff Director for Congressional (VACANCY) Affairs Assistant Staff Director for Management (VACANCY) Chief, Civil Rights Evaluation (VACANCY)