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The Agency makes decisions on opportunities and a calendar of events funding requests based on the on a biweekly basis. A free email recommendations contained in subscription is available at definitional mission or desk study www.ustda.gov. The Agency’s printed reports, the advice of the U.S. Embassy, newsletter, USTDA Update, contains and its own internal analysis. current items of interest on a variety of program activities. Region- or sector- Sources of Information specific factsheets and case studies are Requests for proposals to conduct also available. An annual report USTDA-funded technical assistance and summarizes the Agency’s activities. feasibility studies, or definitional Agency news, reports, and lists of missions involving review of projects current business opportunities and under consideration for USTDA support upcoming events are available at are listed on the Federal Business www.ustda.gov. Opportunities (FBO) Web site. Links to USTDA’s library maintains final the FBO postings can be found at reports on the Agency’s activities. The www.ustda.gov. reports are available for public review Small and minority U.S. firms that Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. wish to be considered for future USTDA to 5:30 p.m. Copies of completed studies desk study solicitations should register may be purchased through the with the Agency’s online Consultant Department of Commerce’s National Database at www.ustda.gov/ Technical Information Service at consultantdb. www.ntis.gov. In an effort to provide timely Regional program inquiries should be information on Agency-supported directed to the assigned Country activities, USTDA sends out an Manager. Phone, 703–875–4357. Fax, eNewsletter with current business 703–875–4009. Email, [email protected].

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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 ALONZO FULGHAM, Acting DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR (VACANCY) Counselor JAMES MICHEL Chief Operating Officer ALONZO FULGHAM Assistant Administrator for Africa EARL GAST Assistant Administrator for Asia MARGOT ELLIS, Acting Assistant Administrator for Middle East GEORGE LAUDATO, Acting Assistant Administrator for Democracy, SHARON L. CROMER, Acting Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, MICHAEL YATES, Acting Agriculture and Trade Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia KEN YAMASHITA, Acting Assistant Administrator for Global Health GLORIA STEEL, Acting

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Assistant Administrator for Latin America and DEBBIE KENNEDY-IRAHETA, Acting the Caribbean Assistant Administrator for Legislative and CHRIS MILLIGAN, Acting Public Affairs Assistant Administrator for Management DREW LUTEN, Acting Director of Office of Development Partners KAREN TURNER Director of Security RANDY STREUFERT Director of Equal Opportunity Programs JESSALYN L. PENDARVIS Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business MAURICIO VERA Utilization/Minority Resource Center General Counsel ALAN SWENDIMAN 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 following areas: support for voluntary International Development (USAID) is an family planning systems, reproductive independent Federal agency established health care, needs of adolescents and by 22 U.S.C. 6563. Its principal statutory young adults, infant and child health, authority is the Foreign Assistance Act of and education for girls and women. 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2151 et Economic Growth The Agency seq.). USAID serves as the focal point promotes broad-based economic growth within the Government for economic by addressing the factors that enhance matters affecting U.S. relations with the capacity for growth and by working developing countries. USAID administers to remove the obstacles that stand in the international economic and way of individual opportunity. In this humanitarian assistance programs. The context, programs concentrate on Administrator is under the direct strengthening market economies, authority and foreign policy guidance of expanding economic opportunities for the Secretary of State. the disadvantaged in developing countries, and building human skills and Programs capacities to facilitate broad-based The Agency meets its post-cold war era participation. challenges by utilizing its strategy for Environment The Agency’s achieving sustainable development in environmental programs support two developing countries. It supports strategic goals: reducing long-term programs in four areas: population and threats to the global environment, health, broad-based economic growth, particularly loss of biodiversity and environment, and democracy. It also climate change; and promoting provides humanitarian assistance and aid sustainable economic growth locally, to countries in crisis and transition. nationally, and regionally by addressing Population and Health The Agency environmental, economic, and contributes to a cooperative global effort developmental practices that impede to stabilize world population growth and development and are unsustainable. support women’s reproductive rights. Globally, Agency programs focus on The types of population and health reducing sources and enhancing sinks of programs supported vary with the greenhouse gas emissions and on particular needs of individual countries promoting innovative approaches to the and the kinds of approaches that local conservation and sustainable use of the communities initiate and support. Most planet’s biological diversity. The USAID resources are directed to the approach to national environmental

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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

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problems differs on a country-by-country Overseas Organizations basis, depending on a particular U.S. Agency for International country’s environmental priorities. Development country organizations are Country strategies may include located in countries where a bilateral improving agricultural, industrial, and program is being implemented. The in- natural resource management practices country organizations are subject to the that play a central role in environmental direction and guidance of the chief U.S. degradation; strengthening public diplomatic representative in the country, policies and institutions to protect the usually the Ambassador. The environment; holding dialogs with organizations report to the Agency’s country governments on environmental Assistant Administrators for the four issues and with international agencies on geographic bureaus: the Bureaus for 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 Agency personnel and may be headed nonexistent, ineffectual, or undemocratic by employees of other U.S. Government political parties; disenfranchisement of agencies. women, indigenous peoples, and minorities; failure to implement national Country Organizations—U.S. Agency for charter documents; powerless or poorly International Development defined democratic institutions; tainted Country Officer in Charge 1 elections; and the inability to resolve Afghanistan ...... Robin Phillips (MD) conflicts peacefully. Albania ...... Ted Landau (MD) Humanitarian Assistance and Post-Crisis Angola ...... Diana Swain (MD) Armenia ...... Robin Phillips (MD) Transitions The Agency provides Azerbaijan ...... Scott Taylor (CPO) humanitarian assistance that saves lives, Bangladesh ...... Denise Rollins (MD) Barbados ...... Jim Goggin (MD) reduces suffering, helps victims return to Belarus ...... Peter Argo (CPO) self-sufficiency, and reinforces Benin ...... (vacancy) (MD) Bolivia ...... Peter Natiello (MD) democracy. Programs focus on disaster Bosnia ...... Jane Nandy (MD) prevention, preparedness, and Brazil ...... Jennifer Adams (MD) Bulgaria ...... Michael Fritz (MD) mitigation; timely delivery of disaster Cambodia ...... Erin Soto (MD) relief and short-term rehabilitation Colombia ...... Susan Reichle (MD) Croatia ...... Rebecca Latorraca, Acting supplies and services; preservation of (MD) basic institutions of civil governance Cyprus ...... (vacancy) (MD) Democratic Republic of the Stephen Haykin (MD) during disaster crisis; support for Congo. democratic institutions during periods of Dominican Republic ...... Richard Goughnour (MD) East Timor ...... Mark White (AIDR) national transition; and building and Ecuador ...... Alexandra Panehal (MD) reinforcement of local capacity to Egypt ...... Hilda Arellano (MD) El Salvador ...... Lawrence Brady (MD) anticipate and handle disasters and their Eritrea ...... Jatinder Cheema (MD) aftermath. Ethiopia ...... Glenn Anders (MD)

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Country Organizations—U.S. Agency for Country Organizations—U.S. Agency for International Development—Continued International Development—Continued

Country Officer in Charge 1 Country Officer in Charge 1

Georgia ...... Bob Wilson (MD) Nigeria ...... Sharon Coromer (MD) Ghana ...... Robert Helleyer (MD) Panama ...... Littleton Tazewell (AID R) Guatemala ...... Wayne Nilsestuen (MD) Pakistan ...... Anne Aarnes (MD) Guinea ...... Cliff Brown (MD) Paraguay ...... John Beed (MD) Guyana ...... Fenton Sands (MD) Peru ...... Paul Weisenfeld (MD) Haiti ...... Beth Cypser (MD) Philippines ...... Edward Birgells (MD) Honduras ...... William Brands (MD) Romania ...... Rodger Garner (MD) India ...... George Deikun (MD) Russia ...... Leon Waskin (MD) Indonesia ...... William Frej (MD) Rwanda ...... Dennis Weller (MD) Iraq ...... Christopher Crowley (MD) Senegal ...... Kevin Mullally (MD) Jamaica ...... Karen Hilliard (MD) Serbia ...... Michael Harvey (MD) Jordan ...... Jay Knott (MD) Sri Lanka ...... Rebecca Cohn (MD) Kenya ...... Cheryl Anderson (MD) Sudan ...... Pat Fleure (MD) Kosovo ...... Paricia Radar (MD) Tajikistan ...... Carolyn Bryan (MD) Kyrgyzstan ...... Ken McNamara (CPO) Tanzania ...... Robert Cunnane (MD) Lebanon ...... Denise Herbol (AID R) Thailand ...... Olivier Carduner (MD) Liberia ...... Pamela White (MD) Macedonia ...... (vacancy) (MD) Turkmenistan ...... Ashley Moretz (CPO) Madagascar ...... Gerald Cashion (MD) Uganda ...... David Eckerson (MD) Malawi ...... Roger Yochelson (MD) Ukraine ...... Earl Gast (MD) Mali ...... Alexander Newton (MD) Uzbekistan ...... James Bonner (CPO) Mexico ...... Rodger Garner (MD) Vietnam ...... Roger Carlson (CPO) Moldova ...... Gary Linden (CPO) West Bank/Gaza in Israel .... Howard Sumka (MD) Mongolia ...... Barry Primm (MD) Yemen ...... Mike Sarhan (AIDR) Montenegro ...... Joseph Taggart (CPO) Zambia ...... James Bednar (MD) Morocco ...... Monica Stein-Olson (MD) Zimbabwe ...... Karen Freeman (MD) Mozambique ...... Jay Knott (MD) 1 MD: Mission Director; CPO: Country Program Officer; Namibia ...... Gary Newton (MD) RD: Regional Director; AAO: AID Affairs Officer for Section Nepal ...... Beth Paige (MD) of Embassy; CO: Coordinator in Washington; AID R: USAID Nicaragua ...... Alexander Dickie (MD) Representative; FFP: Food for Peace Officer International Organizations—U.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 Africa—Gaborone, Botswana ...... Gerald Cashion (RD) Regional Economic Development Services Offices—Nairobi, Kenya ...... Andrew Sission (RD) Regional Mission to Central Asia—Almaty, Kazakhstan ...... Christopher Crowley (RD) Regional Mission to Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova—Kiev, Ukraine ...... Chuck Howell (RD) Regional Support Center—Budapest, Hungary ...... James Ray Kirkland (RD) USAID Mission to Southern Africa ...... Carleene Dei (RD) West Africa Regional Program ...... Henderson M. Patrick (MD) International Organizations and USAID Contacts Office for Humanitarian Assistance, World Food Program Affairs—Rome, ...... Richard Newberg (FFP) Office of the U.S. Representative to the Development Assistance Committee of the Organiza- George Carner (AID R) tion for Economic Cooperation and Development—, . U.S. Mission to the European Office of the United Nations and Other International Organiza- (vacancy) (AID R) tions—Geneva, . AID Office for Development Cooperation—Tokyo, Japan ...... Charles Aaenenson (AID R) Office of AID Coordination Representative—Brussels, ...... Patricia Lerner (AID R)

Sources of Information

General Inquiries Inquiries may be for Legislative and Public Affairs, USAID/ directed to the Bureau for Legislative and LPA, Washington, DC 20523–0001. Public Affairs, USAID/LPA, Washington, Phone, 202–712–4810. DC 20523–0001. Phone, 202–712– Contracting and Small Business Inquiries 4810. Fax, 202–216–3524. For information regarding contracting Congressional Affairs Congressional opportunities, contact the Office of Small inquiries may be directed to the Bureau and Disadvantaged Business Utilization,

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

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.usaid.gov.

UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 624 Ninth Street NW., Washington, DC 20425 Phone, 202–376–8177. TTY, 202–376–8116. Internet, www.usccr.gov.

CHAIRMAN GERALD A. REYNOLDS VICE CHAIR ABIGAIL THERNSTROM Commissioners TODD GAZIANO, GAIL HERIOT, PETER KIRSANOW, ARLAN D. MELENDEZ, ASHLEY TAYLOR, MICHAEL YAKI Staff Director (VACANCY) Deputy Staff Director (VACANCY) Associate Deputy Staff Director DEBRA A. CARR General Counsel DAVID BLACKWOOD Deputy General Counsel (VACANCY) Assistant Staff Director for Civil Rights ROBERT LERNER Evaluation Assistant Staff Director for Congressional (VACANCY) Affairs Assistant Staff Director for Management (VACANCY) Chief, Public Affairs Unit (VACANCY) Chief, Regional Programs Coordination CHRIS BYRNES [For the Commission on Civil Rights statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 45, Part 701]

The Commission on Civil Rights collects and studies information on discrimination or denials of equal protection of the laws because of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, or in the administration of justice in such areas as voting rights, enforcement of Federal civil rights laws, and equal opportunity in education, employment, and housing.

The Commission on Civil Rights was first United States Commission on Civil created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, Rights Act of 1994, as amended (42 as amended, and reestablished by the U.S.C. 1975).

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