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UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523 Phone, 202–712–0000. Internet, www.usaid.gov. Administrator HENRIETTA H. FORE, Acting Deputy Administrator JAMES KUNDER, Acting Counselor MOSINA JORDAN Chief Operating Officer ALSONSO FULGHAM Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff DAWN THOMAS, Acting Assistant Administrator for Africa KATHERINE ALMQUIST Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near (VACANCY) East Assistant Administrator for Democracy, MICHAEL HESS Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, JACQUELINE E. SCHAFER Agriculture and Trade Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia DOUGLAS MENARCHIK Assistant Administrator for Global Health KENT R. HILL Assistant Administrator for Latin America and PAUL J. BONICELLI the Caribbean Assistant Administrator for Legislative and JEFFREY GREICO, Acting Public Affairs VerDate Aug 31 2005 11:05 Aug 07, 2007 Jkt 211657 PO 00000 Frm 00544 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 C:\GOVMAN\211657\211657.095 APPS10 PsN: 211657 U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 537 Assistant Administrator for Management MOSINA JORDAN Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program (VACANCY) Coordination Director of Office of Development Partners CAROL GRIGSBY Director of Security HARRY MANCHESTER Director of Equal Opportunity Programs JESSALYN L. PENDARVIS Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business ROBERT EGGE, Acting Utilization/Minority Resource Center General Counsel JANE DANA Inspector General DONALD A. GAMBATESA [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 administers U.S. foreign economic and humanitarian assistance programs worldwide in the developing world, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. The United States Agency for health care, needs of adolescents and International Development (USAID) is an young adults, infant and child health, independent Federal agency established and education for girls and women. by 22 U.S.C. 6563. Its principal statutory Economic Growth The Agency authority is the Foreign Assistance Act of promotes broad-based economic growth 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2151 et by addressing the factors that enhance seq.). USAID serves as the focal point the capacity for growth and by working within the Government for economic to remove the obstacles that stand in the matters affecting U.S. relations with way of individual opportunity. In this developing countries. USAID administers context, programs concentrate on international economic and strengthening market economies, humanitarian assistance programs. The expanding economic opportunities for Administrator is under the direct the disadvantaged in developing authority and foreign policy guidance of countries, and building human skills and the Secretary of State. capacities to facilitate broad-based participation. Programs Environment The Agency’s The Agency meets its post-cold war era environmental programs support two challenges by utilizing its strategy for strategic goals: reducing long-term achieving sustainable development in threats to the global environment, developing countries. It supports particularly loss of biodiversity and programs in four areas: population and climate change; and promoting health, broad-based economic growth, sustainable economic growth locally, environment, and democracy. It also nationally, and regionally by addressing provides humanitarian assistance and aid environmental, economic, and to countries in crisis and transition. developmental practices that impede Population and Health The Agency development and are unsustainable. contributes to a cooperative global effort Globally, Agency programs focus on to stabilize world population growth and reducing sources and enhancing sinks of support women’s reproductive rights. greenhouse gas emissions and on The types of population and health promoting innovative approaches to the programs supported vary with the conservation and sustainable use of the particular needs of individual countries planet’s biological diversity. The and the kinds of approaches that local approach to national environmental communities initiate and support. Most problems differs on a country-by-country USAID resources are directed to the basis, depending on a particular following areas: support for voluntary country’s environmental priorities. family planning systems, reproductive Country strategies may include VerDate Aug 31 2005 11:05 Aug 07, 2007 Jkt 211657 PO 00000 Frm 00545 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 C:\GOVMAN\211657\211657.096 APPS10 PsN: 211657 538 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR COUNSELOR - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICE OF CHIEF OFFICER DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION PARTNERS OFFICER OFFICE OF EQUAL OFFICE OF THE OPPORTUNITY GENERAL PROGRAMS COUNSEL OFFICE OF SMALL OFFICE OF AND DISADVANTAGED OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR BUSINESS/MINORITY SECURITY GENERAL RESOURCE CENTER BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR AFRICA ASIA AND THE NEAR EAST BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR LATIN AMERICA EUROPE AND AND THE EURASIA CARIBBEAN BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC BUREAU FOR CONFLICT AND GROWTH, GLOBAL HEALTH HUMANITARIAN AGRICULTURE ASSISTANCE AND TRADE BUREAU FOR BUREAU FOR POLICY BUREAU FOR LEGISLATIVE AND AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PUBLIC AFFAIRS COORDINATION OVERSEAS MISSIONS VerDate Aug 31 2005 11:05 Aug 07, 2007 Jkt 211657 PO 00000 Frm 00546 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 C:\GOVMAN\211657\211657.096 APPS10 PsN: 211657 EfiMDSUfl211657fiMDNMfl.06fiMDSUfl5fiMDNMfl U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 539 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. Development Assistance Coordination world. Programs focus on such problems and Representative Offices provide as: human rights abuses; misperceptions liaison with various international about democracy and free-market organizations and represent U.S. interests capitalism; lack of experience with in development assistance matters. Such democratic institutions; the absence or offices may be only partially staffed by weakness of intermediary organizations; Agency personnel and may be headed nonexistent, ineffectual, or undemocratic by employees of other U.S. Government political parties;