[United States Government Manual] [June 01, 2008] [Pages 537-542] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523 Phone, 202-712-0000. Internet, www.usaid.gov. Administrator Henrietta H. Fore Deputy Administrator James Kunder, Acting Counselor Lisa Chiles Chief Operating Officer Alonzo Fulgham Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff Madelyn Marchessault Assistant Administrator for Africa Katherine Almquist Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near (vacancy) East Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict Michael Hess and Humanitarian Assistance Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Jacqueline E. Schafer Agriculture and Trade Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Douglas Menarchik Assistant Administrator for Global Health Kent R. Hill Assistant Administrator for Latin America and Jose Cardenas, Acting the Caribbean Assistant Administrator for Legislative and Jeffrey Greico, Acting Public Affairs Assistant Administrator for Management Sean Mulvaney 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 [[Page 538]] 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 International Development (USAID) is an independent Federal agency established by 22 U.S.C. 6563. Its principal statutory authority is the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.). USAID serves as the focal point within the Government for economic matters affecting U.S. relations with developing countries. USAID administers international economic and humanitarian assistance programs. The Administrator is under the direct authority and foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State. 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 disadvantaged 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 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T214669.065 [[Page 540]] 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 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\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Afghanistan............................... Skip Waskin (MD) Albania................................... Ted Landau (MD) Angola.................................... Diana Swain (MD) Armenia................................... Robin Phillips (MD) Azerbaijan................................ James Goggin (CPO) Bangladesh................................ Gene George (MD) Barbados.................................. Jim Goggin (MD) Belarus................................... Chuck Howell (CPO) Benin..................................... Rudy Thomas (MD) Bolivia................................... Michael Yates (MD) Bosnia.................................... Jane Nandy (MD) Brazil.................................... Jennifer Adams (MD) Bulgaria.................................. Michael Fritz (MD) Cambodia.................................. Erin Soto (MD) Colombia.................................. Liliana Ayalde (MD) Croatia................................... William Jeffers (MD) Cyprus.................................... Thomas Dailey (MD) Democratic Republic of the Congo.......... Robert Hellyer (MD) Dominican Republic........................ Richard Goughnour (MD) East Timor................................ Flynn Fuller (MD) Ecuador................................... Alexandra Panehal (MD) Egypt..................................... Kenneth Ellis (MD) El Salvador............................... Deborah Kennedy-Iraheta (MD) Eritrea................................... Jatinder Cheema (MD) Ethiopia.................................. William Hammink (MD) Georgia................................... Bob Wilson (MD) Ghana..................................... Sharon Cromer (MD) Guatemala................................. Wayne Nilsestuen (MD) Guinea.................................... Annette Adams (MD) Guyana.................................... Fenton Sands (MD) Haiti..................................... Paul Tuebner (MD) Honduras.................................. Randy Peterson, Acting (MD) India..................................... George Deikun (MD) Indonesia................................. William Frej (MD) Iraq...................................... Hilda Arellano (MD) Jamaica................................... Karen Turner (MD) Jordan.................................... Anne Aarnes (MD) Kenya..................................... Kiert Toh (MD) Kosovo.................................... Michael Farbman (MD) Kyrgyzstan................................ Ken McNamara (CPO) Lebanon................................... Raoul Youseff (AID R) Liberia................................... Wilbur Thomas (MD) Macedonia............................. John Starnes (CPO) Mongolia.................................. Barry Primm (MD) Montenegro................................ Joseph Taggart (CPO) Morocco................................... Monica Stein-Olson (MD) Mozambique................................ Jay Knott (MD) Namibia................................... Gary Newton (MD) Nepal..................................... Donald Clark (MD) [[Page 541]] Nicaragua................................. Alexander Dickie (MD) Nigeria................................... (vacancy) (MD) Panama.................................... Kermit Moh (AID R) Pakistan.................................. Jonathan Addleton (MD) Paraguay.................................. John Beed (MD) Peru...................................... Susan Brems, Acting (MD) Philippines............................... Jon Lindborg (MD) Romania................................... Rodger Garner (MD) Russia.................................... Terry Myers (MD) Rwanda.................................... James Anderson (MD) Senegal................................... Olivier Carduner (MD) Serbia.................................... Keith Simmons (MD) Sri Lanka................................. Rebecca Cohn (MD) Sudan..................................... Katherine Almquist (MD) Tajikistan................................ Carolyn Bryan (MD) Tanzania.................................. Derrick Brown (MD) Thailand.................................. Olivier Carduner (MD) Turkmenistan.............................. Ashley Moretz (CPO) Uganda.................................... Vicki Moore (MD) Ukraine................................... Earl Gast (MD) Uzbekistan................................ James Bonner (CPO) Vietnam................................... Dennis Zvinakis (CPO) West Bank/Gaza in Israel.................. Howard Sumka (MD) Yemen..................................... Douglas Heisler (MD) Zambia.................................... James Bednar (MD) Zimbabwe.................................. Karen Freeman (MD) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \1\ MD: Mission Director; CPO: Country Program Officer; RD: Regional Director; AAO: AID Affairs Officer for Section of Embassy; CO: Coordinator in Washington; AID R: USAID Representative; FFP: Food for Peace Officer2,L1,s150,xs70 Regional Offices Regional Center for Southern Africa-- Gerald Cashion (RD) Gaborone, Botswana. Regional Economic Development Services Andrew Sission (RD) Offices--Nairobi, Kenya. Regional Mission to Central Asia--Almaty, Chris Crowley (RD) Kazakhstan. Regional Mission to Ukraine, Belarus and Earl Gast (RD) Moldova--Kiev, Ukraine. Regional Support Center--Budapest, Hungary James Ray Kirkland (RD) USAID Mission to Southern Africa.......... (vacancy) (RD) West Africa Regional Program.............. Carleene Dei (MD) International Organizations and USAID Contacts Office for Humanitarian Assistance, World Richard Newberg (FFP) Food Program Affairs--Rome, Italy. Office of the U.S. Representative to the George Carner (AID R) Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development--Paris, France. U.S. Mission to the European Office of the (vacancy) (AID R) United Nations and Other International Organizations--Geneva, Switzerland. AID Office for Development Cooperation-- Charles Aaenenson (AID R) Tokyo, Japan. Office of AID Coordination Representative-- Patricia Lerner (AID R) Brussels, Belgium. Sources of Information General Inquiries Inquiries may be directed to the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, USAID/LPA, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-712-4810. Fax, 202-216-3524. Congressional Affairs Congressional inquiries may be directed to the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, USAID/LPA, 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, U.S. 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, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Internet, www.usaid.gov. General Inquiries General inquiries may be directed to the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, USAID/LPA, 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, USAID/LPA, [[Page 542]] (A: Adviser; C: Counselor; D: Director; ED: Executive Director; MD: Mission Director; AID R: USAID Representative; RD: Regional Director)1Office1Officer in Charge Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------