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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

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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

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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-

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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) ...... 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 ...... 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 (AID R) Development Assistance Coordination Liberia ...... Wilbur Thomas (MD) Macedonia, FRY ...... Richard Goldman (MD) and Representative Offices provide Madagascar ...... Stephen Haykin (MD) liaison with various international Malawi ...... Roger Yochelson (MD) Mali ...... Pam White (MD) organizations and represent U.S. interests Mexico ...... Edward Kadunc (MD) in development assistance matters. Such Moldova ...... John Starnes (CPO) offices may be only partially staffed by ...... Leon Waskin (MD) Montenegro ...... Howard Handler (CPO) Agency personnel and may be headed Morocco ...... Monica Stein-Olson (MD) by employees of other U.S. Government Mozambique ...... Jay Knott (MD) Namibia ...... Gary Newton (MD) agencies. Nepal ...... Joanne Hale (MD) Nicaragua ...... Alexander Dickie (MD) Country Organizations—U.S. Agency for Nigeria ...... Dawn Liberi (MD) International Development Panama ...... Kermit Moh (MD) ...... Lisa Chiles (MD) Country Officer in Charge 1 Paraguay ...... Wayne Nilsestuen (MD) Peru ...... Tom Delaney (MD) ...... Patrick Fine (MD) Philippines ...... Michael Yates (MD) Albania ...... Harry Birnholz (MD) Romania ...... Rodger Garner (MD) Angola ...... Diana Swain (MD) Russia ...... Terry Myers (MD) Armenia ...... Robin Phillips (MD) Rwanda ...... James Anderson (MD) Azerbaijan ...... James Goggin (CPO) Senegal ...... Olivier Carduner (MD) Bangladesh ...... Gene George (MD) Serbia ...... Keith Simmons (MD) Belarus ...... (Vacancy) (CPO) Sri Lanka ...... Carol Becker (MD) Benin ...... Rudy Thomas (MD) Tajikistan ...... Michael Harvey (MD) Bolivia ...... Liliana Ayalde (MD) Tanzania ...... Ray Kirkland (MD) Bosnia ...... Howard Sumka (MD) Turkmenistan ...... Brad Kamp (CPO) Brazil ...... Richard Goughnour (MD) Uganda ...... Vicki Moore (MD) Bulgaria ...... Debra McFarland (MD) Uzbekistan ...... Joanne Hale (CPO) ...... Jonathan Addleton (MD) West Bank/Gaza in Israel .... Larry Garber (MD) Colombia ...... Michael Deal (MD) ...... Douglas Heisler (MD) Croatia ...... William Jeffers (MD) Zambia ...... James Bednar (MD) Cyprus ...... Thomas Dailey (MD) Zimbabwe ...... Paul Weisenfeld (MD) Democratic Republic of the Robert Hellyer (MD) 1 MD: Mission Director; CPO: Country Program Officer; Congo. RD: Regional Director; AAO: AID Affairs Officer for Section Dominican Republic ...... Elena Brineman (MD) of Embassy; CO: Coordinator in Washington; AID R: USAID Ecuador ...... Lars Klassen (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, ...... George Deikun (RD) Regional Mission to Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova—Kiev, Ukraine ...... Christopher Crowley (RD)

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International Organizations—U.S. Agency for International Development—Continued (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 Support Center—Budapest, Hungary ...... Hilda Arellano (RD) USAID Mission to Southern Africa ...... Dirk Dijkerman (RD) West Africa Regional Program ...... Carleene Dei (MD) International Organizations and USAID Contacts Office for Humanitarian Assistance, World Food Program Affairs—Rome, Italy ...... Timothy Lavelle (FFP) Office of the U.S. Representative to the Development Assistance Committee of the Organiza- Earl Gast (AID R) tion for Economic Cooperation and Development—Paris, France. U.S. Mission to the European Office of the United Nations and Other International Organiza- Nance Kyloh (AID R) tions—Geneva, Switzerland. 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 Workforce Planning, Recruitment, and directed to the Bureau for Legislative and Personnel Systems Division, Office of Public Affairs, USAID/LPA, Washington, Human Resources, U.S. Agency for DC 20523–0001. Phone, 202–712– International Development, Washington, 4810. Fax, 202–216–3524. DC 20523–0001. Internet, Congressional Affairs Congressional www.usaid.gov. inquiries may be directed to the Bureau General Inquiries General inquiries for Legislative and Public Affairs, USAID/ may be directed to the Bureau for LPA, Washington, DC 20523–0001. Legislative and Public Affairs, USAID/ Phone, 202–712–4810. LPA, Washington, DC 20523–0001. Contracting and Small Business Inquiries For information regarding contracting Phone, 202–712–4810. Fax, 202–216– opportunities, contact the Office of Small 3524. and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, News Media Inquiries from the media U.S. Agency for International only should be directed to the Press Development, Washington, DC 20523– Relations Division, Bureau for Legislative 0001. Phone, 202–712–1500. Fax, 202– and Public Affairs, USAID/LPA, 216–3056. Washington, DC 20523–0001. Phone, Employment For information regarding 202–712–4320. employment opportunities, contact the

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. Internet, www.usccr.gov.

Chairperson GERALD A. REYNOLDS Vice Chairman ABIGAIL THERNSTROM Commissioners JENNIFER C. BRACERAS, PETER KIRSANOW, ELSIE M. MEEKS, ASHLEY TAYLOR, MICHAEL YAKI

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