[United States Government Manual]
[May 30, 1997]
[Pages 691-698]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENCY
320 Twenty-first Street NW., Washington, DC 20523-0001
Phone, 202-647-1850
Director, U.S. International Development J. Brian Atwood,
Cooperation Agency Acting
Deputy Director (vacancy)
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
320 Twenty-first Street NW., Washington, DC 20523-0001
Phone, 202-647-1850
Administrator J. Brian Atwood
Deputy Administrator (vacancy)
Counselor Kelly C. Kammerer
Chief of Staff Richard L. McCall, Jr.
Executive Secretary Ryan Conroy
Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Kelly C. Kammerer,
Policy and Program Coordination Acting
Assistant Administrator for Management Larry E. Byrne
Assistant Administrator for Africa Carol Peasley
Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near Margaret Carpenter
East
Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New Thomas A. Dine
Independent States
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
Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs Jessalyn L. Pendarvis
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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
President and Chief Executive Officer Mildred O. Callear,
Acting
Executive Vice President (vacancy)
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 Daniel W. Riordan
Vice President, Investment Funds Robert D. Stillman
Vice President, Management Services William C. Moss
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]
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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.
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
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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
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.
There are three types of country organizations: USAID missions,
offices of the USAID representative, and USAID sections of the embassy.
Agency missions are located in countries in which the U.S. economic
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program is major, continuing, and usually involves multiple types of aid
in several sectors. Each mission is headed by a mission director, who
has been delegated program planning, implementation, and representation
authorities. Offices of the USAID representative are located in
countries in which the economic assistance program is moderate,
declining, or has limited objectives. The offices are usually headed by
a USAID representative, who also has delegated authority for program
implementation and representation. Agency sections of the embassy are
located in countries where the assistance program is very small or is
being phased out. Program planning and implementation authorities are
delegated to the chief U.S. diplomatic representative who is assisted by
the USAID affairs officer.
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
(Missions, Offices, or Sections of Embassy)
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Country Officer in Charge \1\
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Albania/Tirana............................ Dianne M. Blane (OR)
Angola/Luanda............................. Nicholas Jenks, Acting (CO)
Armenia/Yerevan........................... Geraldine Donnelly (OR)
Bangladesh/Dhaka.......................... Richard Brown (MD)
Belize/Belize City........................ Robert Dakan (OR)
Benin/Cotonou............................. Thomas E. Park (OR)
Bolivia/La Paz............................ Frank Almaguer (MD)
Botswana/Gaborone......................... Valerie Dickson-Horton (MD)
Brazil/Brasilia........................... Edward Kadunc (OR)
Bulgaria/Sofia............................ John A. Tennant (OR)
Burundi/Bujumbura......................... Keith Brown (MD)
Cambodia/Phnom Penh....................... Gordon West (OR)
Cape Verde/Praia.......................... Williard Pearson, Acting
(OR)
Colombia/Bogota........................... Lars Klassen (OR)
Croatia/Zagreb............................ Charles R. Aaneson (OR)
Czech Republic/Prague..................... James F. Bednar (OR)
Dominican Republic/Santo Domingo.......... Marilyn Zak (MD)
Ecuador/Quito............................. Thomas Geiger (MD)
Egypt/Cairo............................... John Westley (MD)
El Salvador/San Salvador.................. Carl Leonard, Acting (MD)
Ethiopia/Addis Ababa...................... Margaret Bonner (MD)
FYR Macedonia/Skopje...................... Linda Gregory (OR)
Gambia/Banjul............................. Anne Williams, Acting (OR)
Ghana/Accra............................... Myron Golden (MD)
Guatemala/Guatemala City.................. William Rhodes (MD)
Guinea/Conakry............................ John B. Flynn (MD)
Guinea-Bissau/Bissau...................... Nancy McKay, Acting (OR)
Guyana/Georgetown......................... Pat McDuffy (MD)
Haiti/Port-au-Prince...................... Larry Crandall (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.......................... Carol Tyson (MD)
Jordan/Amman.............................. Lewis W. Lucke (MD)
Kazakstan/Almaty.......................... Patricia Buckles (MD)
Kenya/Nairobi............................. George E. Jones (MD)
Latvia/Riga............................... (Vacancy) (OR)
Liberia/Monrovia.......................... Lowell Lynch (OR)
Lithuania/Vilnius......................... Ronald Greenberg (OR)
Madagascar/Antananarivo................... Donald R. MacKenzie (MD)
Malawi/Lilongwe........................... Cynthia Rozell (MD)
Mali/Bamako............................... Joel Schlesinger (MD)
Mexico/Mexico City........................ Arthur Danart (OR)
Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar...................... (Vacancy) (OR)
Morocco/Rabat............................. Michael Farbman (MD)
Mozambique/Maputo......................... George Wachtenheim (MD)
Namibia/Windhoeck......................... Edward Spriggs (OR)
Nepal/Kathmandu........................... Frederick Machmer (MD)
Nicaragua/Managua......................... George Carner (MD)
Niger/Niamey.............................. James Anderson (MD)
Nigeria/Lagos............................. Felix Awantang (AAO)
Panama/Panama City........................ Douglas Chiriboga (MD)
Paraguay/Asuncion......................... Barbara Kennedy (OR)
Peru/Lima................................. Eric Zallman (MD)
Philippines/Manila........................ Kenneth Schofield (MD)
Philippines/Manila (ASEAN)................ Dennis Zvinakis (OR)
Poland/Warsaw............................. Suzanne Olds (OR)
Romania/Bucharest......................... Peter Lapera (OR)
Russia/Moscow............................. Janet Ballantyne (MD)
Rwanda/Kigali............................. George Lewis (MD)
Senegal/Dakar............................. Anne Williams (MD)
Slovakia/Bratislava....................... Patricia Lerner (OR)
Somalia/Mogadishu......................... John H. Bierke (MD)
South Africa/Pretoria..................... Aaron Williams (MD)
Sri Lanka/Colombo......................... David Cohen (MD)
Tanzania/Dar es Salaam.................... Lucretia Taylor (MD)
Uganda/Kampala............................ Donald Clark (MD)
Ukraine/Kiev.............................. Gregory F. Huger (MD)
Zambia/Lusaka............................. Walter North (MD)
Zimbabwe/Harare........................... Peter Benedict (MD)
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\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
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International Organizations--Agency for International Development
(Selected Regional Organizations)
(A: Adviser; C: Counselor; ED: Executive Director; MD: Mission Director;
AID R: AID Representative; RD: Regional Director)
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Country Officer in Charge
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Regional Offices
Regional Economic Development Services
Offices.
Office for East and Southern Africa-- Keith Brown (RD)
Nairobi, Kenya.
Office for West and Central Africa-- Williard Pearson (RD)
Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan.
Development Assistance Coordination and Representation Offices
U.S. Mission to the United Nations David Garms (ED)
Agencies for Food and Agriculture--
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.
Office of the AID Development Adviser John Cloutier (A)
to the U.S. Executive Director of the
Asian Development Bank--Manila,
Philippines.
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.
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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 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
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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 7 to 12 years and usually
range from $2 million to $10 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 Office of External
Affairs, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency, Washington,
DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-647-1850.
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, 202-647-8440.
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, 703-875-1551.
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. Phone, 202-663-2400.
General Inquiries General inquiries may be directed to the Bureau for
Legislative and Public Affairs, Agency for International Development,
Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-647-1850.
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, DC 20523-0001. Phone,
202-647-4274.
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, opic/[email protected].
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, 320 Twenty-first Street NW., Washington,
DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-647-1850.