[United States Government Manual]
[June 01, 1999]
[Pages 687-691]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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UNITED STATES 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                                         James H. Michel
Chief of Staff                                    Richard L. McCall, Jr.
Executive Secretary                               Ryan Conroy
Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for        Thomas H. Fox
        Policy and Program Coordination
Assistant Administrator for Management            Terrence J. Brown
Assistant Administrator for Africa                Vivian Lowery Derryck
Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near     Robert Randolph
        East
Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New    Donald L. Pressley, 
        Independent States                                Acting
Assistant Administrator for Latin America and     Mark L. Schneider
        the Caribbean
Assistant Administrator for Humanitarian          Hugh Parmer
        Response
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 Security                      C. Michael Flannery
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]

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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 United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was 
established as an independent agency by section 1413 of the Foreign 
Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681-791) and 
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

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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 
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 
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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
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                  Country                       Officer in Charge \1\
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Albania...................................  Howard Sumka (MD)
Angola....................................  James M. Anderson (MD)
Armenia...................................  Dianne Tsitsos (MD)
Azerbaijan................................  William McKinney (DO)
Bangladesh................................  Gordon H. West (MD)
Belarus...................................  Robert Simpson (MD)
Benin.....................................  Thomas E. Park (MD)
Bolivia...................................  Frank Almaguer (MD)
Bosnia....................................  Craig Buck (MD)
Brazil....................................  Janice Weber (MD)
Bulgaria..................................  John Grant (MD)
Burundi...................................  Donald R. MacKenzie, Acting
                                             (MD)
Cambodia..................................  Willard J. Pearson, Jr. (MD)
Colombia..................................  Carl Cira (MD)
Croatia...................................  Charles R. Aaneson (MD)
Democratic Republic of the Congo..........  John Grayzel (MD)
Dominican Republic........................  Edward Kadunc (MD)
Ecuador...................................  Hilda Arellano (MD)
Egypt.....................................  Richard M. Brown (MD)
El Salvador...............................  Kenneth Ellis (MD)
Eritrea...................................  Grant W. Anderson (MD)
Ethiopia..................................  David Eckerson, Acting (MD)
Georgia...................................  Michael Farbman (MD)
Ghana.....................................  Frank J. Young (MD)
Guatemala.................................  George Carner (MD)
Guinea....................................  Harry Birnholz (MD)
Guinea-Bissau.............................  Donald Clark, Acting (MD)
Guyana....................................  Carol Becker (MD)
Haiti.....................................  Phyllis Dichter-Forbes (MD)
Honduras..................................  Elena Brineman (MD)
India.....................................  Linda E. Morse (MD)
Indonesia.................................  Desaix B. Meyers III (MD)
Israel....................................  Christopher Crowley (MD)
Jamaica...................................  Mosina Jordan (MD)
Jordan....................................  Lewis W. Lucke (MD)
Kazakstan.................................  Glenn Anders (MD)
Kenya.....................................  Jonathan Conly (MD)
REDSO in Kenya............................  Donald MacKenzie (MD)
Kyrgyz Republic...........................  S.J. Rushin-Bell (DO)
Latvia....................................  Howard Handler (MD)
Lebanon...................................  James Stephenson (MD)
Liberia...................................  Rudolph Thomas (MD)
Lithuania.................................  Ronald Greenberg (MD)
Macedonia, FRY............................  Stephen Haynes (MD)
Madagascar................................  Karen M. Poe (MD)
Malawi....................................  Kiertisak Toh (MD)
Mali......................................  James Hradsky (MD)
Mexico....................................  Paul White (MD)
Moldova...................................  Tom Lofgren (DO)
Mongolia..................................  Edward W. Birgells (MD)
Montenegro, FYR...........................  Richard Hough (MD)
Morocco...................................  James F. Bednar (MD)
Mozambique................................  Cynthia Rozell (MD)
Namibia...................................  Carol Scherrer-Palma (MD)
Nepal.....................................  Joanne T. Hale (MD)
Nicaragua.................................  Marilyn Zak (MD)
Nigeria...................................  Feliz Awantang (MD)
Panama....................................  Lars Klassen (MD)
Paraguay..................................  Wayne Tate (MD)
Peru......................................  Thomas Geiger (MD)
Philippines...............................  Patrick K. Buckles (MD)
Poland....................................  William M. Frej (MD)
Romania...................................  Peter Lapera (MD)
Russia....................................  Janet Ballantyne (MD)
Rwanda....................................  George Lewis (MD)
Senegal...................................  Donald Clark (MD)
Slovakia..................................  Paula Goddard (MD)
South Africa..............................  William S. Rhodes (MD)
Sri Lanka.................................  Lisa Chiles (MD)
Tajikistan................................  Peter Downs (DO)
Tanzania..................................  Lucretia Taylor (MD)
The Gambia................................  Donald Clark, Acting (MD)
Uganda....................................  Dawn Liberi (MD)
Ukraine...................................  Gregory F. Huger (MD)
Uzbekistan................................  Muri Baker (DO)
Zambia....................................  Walter North (MD)
Zimbabwe..................................  Rose Marie Depp (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


 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)
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                 Office                         Officer in Charge
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                            Regional Offices

Regional Center for Southern Africa--    Edward Spriggs (RD)
 Gaborone, Botswana.

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Regional Economic Development Services   Donald R. MacKenzie (RD)
 Offices--Nairobi, Kenya.
Regional Support Center--Budapest,       Patricia Lerner (RD)
 Hungary.
             International Organizations and USAID Contacts

U.S. Mission to the United Nations       William Baucom (ED)
 Agencies for Food and Agriculture--
 Rome, Italy.
Office for Humanitarian Assistance,      Douglas Sheldon (RD)
 World Food Program Affairs--Rome,
 Italy.
Office of the U.S. Representative to     (Vacancy)(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-- Helene K. Rosenberg (C)
 Tokyo, Japan.
Office of AID Coordination               (Vacancy) (C)
 Representative--Brussels, Belgium.
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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, http://www.info.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, 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, http://www.info.usaid.gov/.

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