[United States Government Manual] [June 02, 1998] [Pages 699-707] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENCY 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523-0001 Phone, 202-712-0000 Director, U.S. International Development J. Brian Atwood, Cooperation Agency Acting Deputy Director (vacancy) AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523-0001 Phone, 202-712-0000. Internet, http://www.info.usaid.gov/. Administrator J. Brian Atwood Deputy Administrator Harriet C. Babbitt Counselor Kelly C. Kammerer Chief of Staff Richard L. McCall, Jr. Executive Secretary Ryan Conroy [[Page 700]] Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Thomas H. Fox Policy and Program Coordination Assistant Administrator for Management Terrence J. Brown Assistant Administrator for Africa Carol Peasley, Acting Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near Kelly C. Kammerer, East Acting Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New Donald L. Pressley, Independent States Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America and Mark Schneider the Caribbean Assistant Administrator for Humanitarian Leonard M. Rogers, Response Acting Assistant Administrator for Global Programs, Sally Shelton Field Support, and Research Assistant Administrator for Legislative and Jill Buckley Public Affairs Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Ivan R. Ashley Business Utilization/Minority Resource Center Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs Jessalyn L. Pendarvis General Counsel Singleton B. McAllister Inspector General Jeffrey Rush, Jr. [For the Agency for International Development statement of organization, see the Federal Register of Aug. 26, 1987, 52 FR 32174] OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION 1100 New York Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20527 Phone, 202-336-8400. Fax, 202-408-9859. Internet, http://www.opic.gov/. President and Chief Executive Officer George Munoz Executive Vice President Kirk Robertson Vice President, Investment Development Robert L. Schiffer Vice President and General Counsel Charles D. Toy Vice President and Treasurer Mildred O. Callear Vice President, Finance Frank L. Langhammer Vice President, Insurance Julie A. Martin Vice President, Investment Funds Robert D. Stillman Managing Director for Administration Michael C. Cushing Chairman of the Board J. Brian Atwood [For the Overseas Private Investment Corporation statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, Chapter VII] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The United States International Development Cooperation Agency (IDCA) was established by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1979 (5 U.S.C. app., effective October 1, 1979) to be a focal point within the U.S. Government for economic matters affecting U.S. relations with developing countries. The Agency's functions are policy planning, policymaking, and policy coordination on international economic issues affecting developing countries. The Director of the Agency serves as the principal international development adviser to the President and the Secretary of State, receiving foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation are component agencies of the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency. [[Page 701]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T177653.072 [[Page 702]] Agency for International Development The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administers U.S. foreign economic and humanitarian assistance programs worldwide in the developing world, Central and Eastern Europe, and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. The Agency functions under an Administrator, who concurrently serves as the Acting Director of IDCA. Programs The Agency meets its post-Cold War era challenges by utilizing its strategy for achieving sustainable development in developing countries. It supports programs in four areas: population and health, broad-based economic growth, environment, and democracy. It also provides humanitarian assistance and aid to countries in crisis and transition. Population and Health The Agency contributes to a cooperative global effort to stabilize world population growth and support women's reproductive rights. The types of population and health programs supported vary with the particular needs of individual countries and the kinds of approaches that local communities initiate and support. Most USAID resources are directed to the following areas: support for voluntary family planning systems, reproductive health care, needs of adolescents and young adults, infant and child health, and education for girls and women. Economic Growth The Agency promotes broad-based economic growth by addressing the factors that enhance the capacity for growth and by working to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of individual opportunity. In this context, programs concentrate on strengthening market economies, expanding economic opportunities for the less advantaged in developing countries, and building human skills and capacities to facilitate broad-based participation. Environment The Agency's environmental programs support two strategic goals: reducing long-term threats to the global environment, particularly loss of biodiversity and climate change; and promoting sustainable economic growth locally, nationally, and regionally by addressing environmental, economic, and developmental practices that impede development and are unsustainable. Globally, Agency programs focus on reducing sources and enhancing sinks of greenhouse gas emissions and on promoting innovative approaches to the conservation and sustainable use of the planet's biological diversity. The approach to national environmental problems differs on a country-by-country basis, depending on a particular country's environmental priorities. Country strategies may include improving agricultural, industrial, and natural resource management practices that play a central role in environmental degradation; strengthening public policies and institutions to protect the environment; holding dialogs with country governments on environmental issues and with international agencies on the environmental impact of lending practices and the design and implementation of innovative mechanisms to support environmental work; and environmental research and education. Democracy The Agency's strategic objective in the democracy area is the transition to and consolidation of democratic regimes throughout the world. Programs focus on such problems as: human rights abuses; misperceptions about democracy and free-market capitalism; lack of experience with democratic institutions; the absence or weakness of intermediary organizations; nonexistent, ineffectual, or undemocratic political parties; disenfranchisement of women, indigenous peoples, and minorities; failure to implement national charter documents; powerless or poorly defined democratic institutions; tainted elections; and the inability to resolve conflicts peacefully. Humanitarian Assistance and Post-Crisis Transitions The Agency provides [[Page 703]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T177653.073 [[Page 704]] humanitarian assistance that saves lives, reduces suffering, helps victims return to self-sufficiency, and reinforces democracy. Programs focus on disaster prevention, preparedness, and mitigation; timely delivery of disaster relief and short-term rehabilitation supplies and services; preservation of basic institutions of civil governance during disaster crisis; support for democratic institutions during periods of national transition; and building and reinforcement of local capacity to anticipate and handle disasters and their aftermath. Overseas Organizations U.S. Agency for International Development country organizations are located in countries where a bilateral program is being implemented. The in-country organizations are subject to the direction and guidance of the chief U.S. diplomatic representative in the country, usually the Ambassador. The organizations report to the Agency's Assistant Administrators for the four geographic bureaus--the Bureaus for Africa, Asia and Near East, Europe and the New Independent States, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The overseas program activities that involve more than one country are administered by regional offices. These offices may also perform country organizational responsibilities for assigned countries. Generally, the offices are headed by a regional development officer. Development Assistance Coordination and Representative Offices provide liaison with various international organizations and represent U.S. interests in development assistance matters. Such offices may be only partially staffed by Agency personnel and may be headed by employees of other U.S. Government agencies. Country Organizations--U.S. Agency for International Development ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Country Officer in Charge \1\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Albania/Tirana............................ Dianne M. Blane (OR) Angola/Luanda............................. James M. Anderson (CO) Armenia/Yerevan........................... Geraldine Donnelly (OR) Bangladesh/Dhaka.......................... Richard Brown (MD) Benin/Cotonou............................. Thomas E. Park (OR) Bolivia/La Paz............................ Frank Almaguer (MD) Bosnia/Sarajevo........................... Craig Buck (MD) Brazil/Brasilia........................... Edward Kadunc (OR) Bulgaria/Sofia............................ John A. Tennant (OR) Burundi/Bujumbura......................... Donald MacKenzie, Acting (MD) Cambodia/Phnom Penh....................... Gordon West (OR) Colombia/Bogota........................... Carl Cira (OR) Croatia/Zagreb............................ Charles R. Aaneson (OR) Democratic Republic of the Congo/Kinshasa. John Grayzel (MD) Dominican Republic/Santo Domingo.......... Marilyn Zak (MD) Ecuador/Quito............................. Thomas Geiger (MD) Egypt/Cairo............................... John Westley (MD) El Salvador/San Salvador.................. Kenneth Ellis (MD) Eritrea/Asmara............................ G. William Anderson (MD) Ethiopia/Addis Ababa...................... Keith Brown (MD) FYR Macedonia/Skopje...................... Stephen Haynes (OR) Ghana/Accra............................... Thomas Hobgood, Acting (MD) Guatemala/Guatemala City.................. William Rhodes (MD) Guinea/Conakry............................ John B. Flynn (MD) Guinea-Bissau/Bissau...................... Willard Pearson, Acting (OR) Guyana/Georgetown......................... Pat McDuffie (MD) Haiti/Port-au-Prince...................... Phyllis Dichter-Forbes (MD) Honduras/Tegucigalpa...................... Elena Brineman (MD) Hungary/Budapest.......................... Thomas Cornell (OR) India/New Delhi........................... Linda E. Morse (MD) Indonesia/Jakarta......................... Vivikka M. Molldrem (MD) Israel/Jerusalem (West Bank).............. Christopher Crowley (MD) Israel/Tel Aviv (Gaza).................... Christopher Crowley (MD) Jamaica/Kingston.......................... Carole Tyson (MD) Jordan/Amman.............................. Lewis W. Lucke (MD) Kazakstan/Almaty.......................... Patricia Buckles (MD) Kenya/Nairobi............................. George E. Jones (MD) Latvia/Riga............................... (Vacancy) (OR) Lebanon/Beirut............................ James Stephenson (OR) Liberia/Monrovia.......................... Rudolph Thomas (OR) Lithuania/Vilnius......................... Ronald Greenberg (OR) Madagascar/Antananarivo................... Karen M. Poe (MD) Malawi/Lilongwe........................... Kiertisak Toh (MD) Mali/Bamako............................... James Hradsky (MD) Mexico/Mexico City........................ Arthur Danart (OR) Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar...................... Edward W. Birgells (OR) Morocco/Rabat............................. Michael Farbman (MD) Mozambique/Maputo......................... Cynthia Rozell (MD) Namibia/Windhoeck......................... Edward Spriggs (OR) Nepal/Kathmandu........................... Frederick Machmer (MD) Nicaragua/Managua......................... George Carner (MD) Niger/Niamey.............................. Linda Gregory (MD) Nigeria/Lagos............................. Felix Awantang (AAO) Panama/Panama City........................ Lawrence Klassen (MD) Paraguay/Asuncion......................... Barbara Kennedy (OR) Peru/Lima................................. Donald Boyd (MD) Philippines/Manila........................ Kenneth Schofield (MD) Poland/Warsaw............................. William Frej (OR) Romania/Bucharest......................... Peter Lapera (OR) Russia/Moscow............................. Janet Ballantyne (MD) Rwanda/Kigali............................. George Lewis (MD) Senegal/Dakar............................. Anne Williams (MD) Slovakia/Bratislava....................... Paula Goddard (OR) Somalia/Mogadishu......................... John H. Bierke (MD) South Africa/Pretoria..................... Aaron Williams (MD) Sri Lanka/Colombo......................... Lisa Chiles (MD) Tanzania/Dar es Salaam.................... Lucretia Taylor (MD) Uganda/Kampala............................ Donald Clark (MD) Ukraine/Kiev.............................. Gregory F. Huger (MD) Zambia/Lusaka............................. Walter North (MD) [[Page 705]] Zimbabwe/Harare........................... Rose Marie Depp (MD) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \1\ MD: Mission Director; D: Director; OR: Office of the AID Representative; DO: Development Officer; RD: Regional Director; AAO: AID Affairs Officer for Section of Embassy; CO: Coordinator in Washington International Organizations--Agency for International Development (Selected Regional Organizations) (A: Adviser; C: Counselor; D: Director; ED: Executive Director; MD: Mission Director; AID R: AID Representative; RD: Regional Director) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Office Officer in Charge ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regional Offices Regional Center for Southern Africa-- Valerie Dickson-Horton (RD) Gaborone, Botswana. Regional Economic Development Services Offices. Office for East and Southern Africa-- Donald R. MacKenzie (RD) Nairobi, Kenya. Office for West and Central Africa-- Williard Pearson (RD) Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan. Regional Support Center--Budapest, Patricia Lerner (RD) Hungary. Development Assistance Coordination and Representation Offices U.S. Mission to the United Nations William Baucom (ED) Agencies for Food and Agriculture-- Rome, Italy. Office for Humanitarian Assistance, Douglas Sheldon (D) World Food Program Affairs--Rome, Italy. Office of the U.S. Representative to James H. Michel (AID R) the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development--Paris, France. U.S. Mission to the European Office of Nance Kyloh (AID R) the United Nations and Other International Organizations--Geneva, Switzerland. AID Office for Development Cooperation-- Paul White (C) Tokyo, Japan. Office of AID Coordination Laurier Mailloux (C) Representative--Brussels, Belgium. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Overseas Private Investment Corporation The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is a self-sustaining Federal agency whose purpose is to promote economic growth in developing countries by encouraging U.S. private investment in those nations. The Corporation assists American investors in four principal ways: financing of businesses through loans and loan guaranties; supporting private investment funds which provide equity for U.S. companies investing in projects overseas; insuring investments against a broad range of political risks; and engaging in outreach activities. All of these programs are designed to reduce the perceived stumbling blocks and risks associated with overseas investment. Organized as a corporation and structured to be responsive to private business, OPIC is mandated to mobilize and facilitate the participation of U.S. private capital and skills in the economic and social development of developing countries and emerging economies. Currently, OPIC programs are available for new business enterprises or expansion in some 140 countries worldwide. The Corporation encourages American overseas private investment in sound business projects, thereby improving U.S. global competitiveness, creating American jobs, and increasing U.S. exports. The Corporation does not support projects that will result in the loss of domestic jobs or have a negative impact on the host country's environment or workers' rights. The Corporation is governed by a 15-member Board of Directors, of whom 8 are appointed from the private sector and 7 from the Federal Government. Activities By reducing or eliminating certain perceived political risks for investors and providing financing and assistance not otherwise available, the Corporation [[Page 706]] helps to reduce the unusual risks and problems that can make investment opportunities in the developing areas less attractive than in advanced countries. At the same time, it reduces the need for government-to- government lending programs by involving the U.S. private sector in establishing capital-generation and strengthening private-sector economies in developing countries. The Corporation insures U.S. investors against the political risks of expropriation, inconvertibility of local currency holdings, and damage from war, revolution, insurrection, or civil strife. It also offers a special insurance policy to U.S. contractors and exporters against arbitrary drawings of letters of credit posted as bid, performance, or advance payment guaranties. Other special programs are offered for minerals exploration, oil and gas exploration, and development and leasing operations. The Corporation offers U.S. lenders protection against both commercial and political risks by guaranteeing payment of principal and interest on loans (up to $200 million) made to eligible private enterprises. Its Direct Investment loans, offered to small and medium-sized businesses, generally cover terms of from 5 to 15 years and usually range from $2 million to $30 million with varying interest rates, depending on assessment of the commercial risks of the project financed. Additionally, OPIC supports a family of privately managed direct investment funds in various regions and business sectors. Such funds currently operate in most countries in East Asia, sub-Saharan African, South America, Russia and other New Independent States, Poland and other countries in Central Europe, India, and Israel. Programs are available only for a new facility, expansion or modernization of an existing plant, or technological or service products designed to generate investment which will produce significant new benefits for host countries. Sources of Information U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency General Inquiries Inquiries may be directed to the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-712-4810. Fax, 202-216-3524. Agency for International Development Congressional Affairs Congressional inquiries may be directed to the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-712-4810. Contracting and Small Business Inquiries For information regarding contracting opportunities, contact the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-712-1500. Fax, 202-216-3056. Employment For information regarding employment opportunities, contact the Workforce Planning, Recruitment and Personnel Systems Division, Office of Human Resources, Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Internet, http://www.info.usaid.gov/. General Inquiries General inquiries may be directed to the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-712-4810. Fax, 202-216-3524. News Media Inquiries from the media only should be directed to the Press Relations Division, Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, Agency for International Development, Washington, [[Page 707]] DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-712-4320. Overseas Private Investment Corporation General Inquiries Inquiries should be directed to the Information Office, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 1100 New York Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20527. Phone, 202-336-8799. Fax, 202-336-8700. E- mail, [email protected]. Internet, http://www.opic.gov/. Publications OPIC programs are further detailed in the Annual Report and the Program Summary. These publications are available free of charge. For further information, contact the United States International Development Cooperation Agency, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-712-0000. Internet, http:// www.info.usaid.gov/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------