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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 537 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 CAROL PEASLEY Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff DOUGLAS J. ALLER Assistant Administrator for Africa LLOYD O. PIERSON Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near JAMES KUNDER East Assistant Administrator for Democracy, WILLIAM J. GARVELINK, Acting Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, JAMES SMITH Agriculture and Trade Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia KENT R. HILL Assistant Administrator for Global Health KENT R. HILL Assistant Administrator for Latin America and ADOLFO FRANCO the Caribbean Assistant Administrator for Legislative and J. EDWARD FOX Public Affairs Assistant Administrator for Management STEVEN G. WISECARVER Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program EDWARD D. MENARCHICK Coordination Director of the Global Development Alliance DAN RUNDE Secretariat Director of Security HARRY MANCHESTER 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 BRUCE N. CRANDLEMIRE [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 humanitarian assistance programs. The International Development (USAID) is an Administrator is under the direct independent Federal agency established authority and foreign policy guidance of by 22 U.S.C. 6563. Its principal statutory the Secretary of State. authority is the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2151 et Programs seq.). USAID serves as the focal point within the Government for economic The Agency meets its post-cold war era matters affecting U.S. relations with challenges by utilizing its strategy for developing countries. USAID administers achieving sustainable development in international economic and developing countries. It supports VerDate Aug 04 2004 10:54 Aug 22, 2005 Jkt 201944 PO 00000 Frm 00547 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 E:\HR\OC\201944.XXX 201944 538 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 Aug 04 2004 10:54 Aug 22, 2005 Jkt 201944 PO 00000 Frm 00548 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 E:\HR\OC\201944.XXX 201944 E201944.063 U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 539 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 disadvantaged 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- VerDate Aug 04 2004 10:54 Aug 22, 2005 Jkt 201944 PO 00000 Frm 00549 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 E:\HR\OC\201944.XXX 201944 540 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL country organizations are subject to the Country Organizations—U.S. Agency for direction and guidance of the chief U.S. International Development—Continued diplomatic representative in the country, Country Officer in Charge 1 usually the Ambassador. The Egypt .................................... Kenneth Ellis (MD) organizations report to the Agency’s El Salvador ........................... Mark Silverman (MD) Assistant Administrators for the four Eritrea ................................... Jatinder Cheema (MD) geographic bureaus: the Bureaus for Ethiopia ................................. William Hammink (MD) Georgia ................................. Denny Robertson (MD) Africa, Asia and Near East, Europe and Ghana ................................... Sharon Cromer (MD) the New Independent States, and Latin Guatemala ............................ Glenn Anders (MD) Guinea .................................. Annette Adams (MD) America and the Caribbean. Guyana ................................. Michael Sarhan (MD) The overseas program activities that Haiti ...................................... David Adams (MD) involve more than one country are Honduras .............................. Paul Tuebner (MD) India ...................................... George Deikun (MD) administered by regional offices. These Indonesia .............................. William Frej (MD) offices may also perform country Iraq ....................................... Spike Stephenson (MD) Jamaica ................................ Karen Turner (MD) organizational responsibilities for Jordan ................................... Anne Aarnes (MD) assigned countries. Generally, the offices Kenya ................................... Kiert Toh (MD) Kosovo .................................. Ken Yamashita (MD) are headed by a regional development Kyrgyzstan ............................ Clifford Brown (CPO) officer. Lebanon ................................ Raoul Youseff