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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 Africa VIVIAN LOWERY DERRYCK Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near ROBERT RANDOLPH East Assistant Administrator for Europe 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 Latin America 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 United States 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 UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE OF THE U OFFICE OF EXECUTIVE . SECURITY S SECRETARIAT . AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR POLICY AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM COORDINATION OFFICE OF SMALL AND BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR OFFICE OF OFFICE OF THE OFFICE OF THE DISADVANTAGED GLOBAL PROGRAMS, LEGISLATIVE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY GENERAL COUNSEL INSPECTOR GENERAL BUSINESS/MINORITY FIELD SUPPORT, PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH RESOURCES CENTER BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR ASIA AND THE LATIN AMERICA AND EUROPE AND THE AFRICA HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE NEAR EAST THE CARIBBEAN NEW INDEPENDENT STATES OVERSEAS MISSIONS 543 544 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