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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 533 For further information, contact the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, Suite 1600, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209–3901. 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.usaid.gov. Administrator ANDREW S. NATSIOS Deputy Administrator FREDERICK SCHIECK Counselor WILLIARD J. PEARSON Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff DOUGLAS J. ALLER Assistant Administrator for Africa CONSTANCE BERRY NEWMAN Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near WENDY CHAMBERLIN East Assistant Administrator for Democracy, ROGER P. WINTER Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, EMMY B. SIMMONS Agriculture and Trade Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia KENT R. HILL Assistant Administrator for Global Health E. ANNE PETERSON Assistant Administrator for Latin America and ADOLFO FRANCO the Caribbean Assistant Administrator for Legislative and J. EDWARD FOX Public Affairs Assistant Administrator for Management JOHN MARSHALL Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program PATRICK CRONIN Coordination Director of the Global Development Alliance HOLLY WISE Secretariat Director of Security C. MICHAEL FLANNERY Director of Equal Opportunity Programs JESSALYN L. PENDARVIS Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business MARILYN MARTON Utilization/Minority Resource Center General Counsel JOHN GARDNER Inspector General EVERETT L. MOSLEY [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 within the Government for economic International Development (USAID) is an matters affecting U.S. relations with independent Federal agency established developing countries. USAID administers by 22 U.S.C. 6563. Its principal statutory international economic and authority is the Foreign Assistance Act of humanitarian assistance programs. The 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2151 et Administrator is under the direct seq.). USAID serves as the focal point VerDate Dec 13 2002 11:03 Aug 13, 2003 Jkt 193760 PO 00000 Frm 00543 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 D:\GOVMAN\193760.093 APPS10 PsN: 193760 534 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR COUNSELOR - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT GLOBAL CHIEF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CHIEF OFFICER ALLIANCE INFORMATION SECRETARIAT 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 Dec 13 2002 11:03 Aug 13, 2003 Jkt 193760 PO 00000 Frm 00544 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 D:\GOVMAN\193760.094 APPS10 PsN: 193760 E193760.064 U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 535 authority and foreign policy guidance of promoting innovative approaches to the the Secretary of State. conservation and sustainable use of the planet’s biological diversity. The Programs approach to national environmental The Agency meets its post-cold war era problems differs on a country-by-country challenges by utilizing its strategy for basis, depending on a particular achieving sustainable development in country’s environmental priorities. developing countries. It supports Country strategies may include programs in four areas: population and improving agricultural, industrial, and health, broad-based economic growth, natural resource management practices environment, and democracy. It also that play a central role in environmental provides humanitarian assistance and aid degradation; strengthening public to countries in crisis and transition. policies and institutions to protect the Population and Health The Agency environment; holding dialogs with contributes to a cooperative global effort country governments on environmental to stabilize world population growth and issues and with international agencies on support women’s reproductive rights. the environmental impact of lending The types of population and health practices and the design and programs supported vary with the implementation of innovative particular needs of individual countries mechanisms to support environmental and the kinds of approaches that local work; and environmental research and communities initiate and support. Most education. USAID resources are directed to the Democracy The Agency’s strategic following areas: support for voluntary objective in the democracy area is the family planning systems, reproductive transition to and consolidation of health care, needs of adolescents and democratic regimes throughout the young adults, infant and child health, world. Programs focus on such problems and education for girls and women. as: human rights abuses; misperceptions Economic Growth The Agency about democracy and free-market promotes broad-based economic growth capitalism; lack of experience with by addressing the factors that enhance democratic institutions; the absence or the capacity for growth and by working weakness of intermediary organizations; to remove the obstacles that stand in the nonexistent, ineffectual, or undemocratic way of individual opportunity. In this political parties; disenfranchisement of context, programs concentrate on women, indigenous peoples, and 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 VerDate Dec 13 2002 11:03 Aug 13, 2003 Jkt 193760 PO 00000 Frm 00545 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 D:\GOVMAN\193760.094 APPS10 PsN: 193760 536 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL anticipate and handle disasters and their Country Organizations—U.S. Agency for aftermath. International Development—Continued Country Officer in Charge 1 Overseas Organizations Croatia .................................. Pamela Baldwin (MD) U.S. Agency for International Democratic Republic of the Ronald Harvey (MD) Development country organizations are Congo. located in countries where a bilateral Dominican Republic ............. Elena Brineman (MD) Ecuador ................................ Robert Khan (MD) program is being implemented. The in- Egypt .................................... Anne Aarnes (MD) country organizations are subject to the El Salvador ........................... Mark Silverman (MD) Eritrea ................................... William Garvelink (MD) direction and guidance of the chief U.S. Ethiopia ................................. Doug Sheldon (MD) diplomatic representative in the country, Georgia ................................. Michael Farbman (MD) usually the Ambassador. The Ghana ................................... Sharon Cromer (MD) Guatemala ............................ Glenn Anders (MD) organizations report to the Agency’s Guinea .................................. Annette Adams (MD) Assistant Administrators for the four Guyana ................................. Michael Sarhan (MD) Haiti ...................................... Lewis Lucke (MD) geographic bureaus: the Bureaus for Honduras .............................. Paul Tuebner (MD) Africa, Asia and Near East, Europe and India ...................................... Walter North (MD) the New Independent States, and Latin Indonesia .............................. Terry Meyers III (MD) Jamaica ................................ Mosina Jordan (MD) America and the Caribbean. Jordan ................................... Toni Christiansen-Wagner The overseas program activities that (MD) Kenya ..................................