    [United States Government Manual]
    [June 01, 2001]
    [Pages 538-543]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    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                              (vacancy)
    Counselor                                         (vacancy)
    Chief of Staff                                    (vacancy)
    Executive Secretary                               (vacancy)

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    Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for        (vacancy)
            Policy and Program Coordination
    Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged       Laverne Drummond,
            Business Utilization/Minority Resource            Acting
            Center
    Assistant Administrator for Africa                Valerie Dickson-
                                                              Horton, Acting
    Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near     Karen Turner, Acting
            East
    Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia    Linda E. Morse, Acting
    Assistant Administrator for Global Programs,      Barbara N. Turner,
            Field Support, and Research                       Acting
    Assistant Administrator for Humanitarian          Leonard M. Rogers,
            Response                                          Acting
    Assistant Administrator for Latin America and     (vacancy)
            the Caribbean
    Assistant Administrator for Legislative and       (vacancy)
            Public Affairs
    Assistant Administrator for Management            Richard C. Nygard,
                                                              Acting
    Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs    Jessalyn L. Pendarvis
    Director, Office of Security                      C. Michael Flannery
    General Counsel                                   Patricia Ramsey,
                                                              Acting
    Inspector General                                 Everett L. Mosley

    [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 Eurasia.
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    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

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    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.
        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.

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        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....................................  Robert Hellyer (MD)
    Armenia...................................  Keith E. Simmons (MD)
    Bangladesh................................  Gordon H. West (MD)
    Belarus...................................  Christine Scheckler (DO)
    Benin.....................................  Harry Lightfoot (MD)
    Bolivia...................................  Liliana Ayalde (MD)
    Bosnia....................................  Edward Kadunc (MD)
    Brazil....................................  Janice Weber (MD)
    Bulgaria..................................  Debra McFarland (MD)
    Cambodia..................................  Lisa Chiles (MD)
    Colombia..................................  George Wachtenheim (MD)
    Croatia...................................  Pamela Baldwin (MD)
    Democratic Republic of the Congo..........  Ronald Harvey (MD)
    Dominican Republic........................  Elena Brineman (MD)
    Ecuador...................................  Robert Khan (MD)
    Egypt.....................................  Willard Pearson (MD)
    El Salvador...............................  Kenneth Ellis (MD)
    Eritrea...................................  William Garvelink (MD)
    Ethiopia..................................  Doug Sheldon (MD)
    Georgia...................................  Michael Farbman (MD)
    Ghana.....................................  Frank J. Young (MD)
    Guatemala.................................  George Carner (MD)
    Guinea....................................  Harry Birnholz (MD)
    Guyana....................................  Carol Becker (MD)
    Haiti.....................................  Lewis Lucke (MD)
    Honduras..................................  Timothy Mahoney (MD)
    India.....................................  Walter North (MD)
    Indonesia.................................  Terry Meyers III (MD)
    Israel....................................  Larry Garber (MD)
    Jamaica...................................  Mosina Jordan (MD)
    Jordan....................................  Toni Christiansen-Wagner
                                                 (MD)
    Kazakstan.................................  Glenn Anders (MD)
    Kenya.....................................  Jonathan Conly (MD)
    REDSO in Kenya............................  Dirk Dukerman (MD)
    Kosovo....................................  Craig Buck (MD)
    Kyrgyz Republic...........................  Tracy Atwood (DO)
    Lebanon...................................  Jon Breslar (MD)
    Liberia...................................  Rudolph Thomas (MD)
    Macedonia, FRY............................  Stephen Haynes (MD)
    Madagascar................................  Karen M. Poe (MD)
    Malawi....................................  Kiertisak Toh (MD)
    Mali......................................  Paul Tuebner (MD)
    Mexico....................................  Paul White (MD)
    Moldova...................................  Tom Lofgren (DO)
    Mongolia..................................  Edward W. Birgells (MD)
    Morocco...................................  James F. Bednar (MD)
    Mozambique................................  Cynthia Rozell (MD)
    Namibia...................................  William Duncan (MD)
    Nepal.....................................  Joanne T. Hale (MD)
    Nicaragua.................................  Marilyn Zak (MD)
    Nigeria...................................  Thomas Hobgood (MD)
    Panama....................................  Lars Klassen (MD)
    Paraguay..................................  Wayne Tate (MD)
    Peru......................................  Thomas Geiger (MD)
    Philippines...............................  Patrick K. Buckles (MD)
    Romania...................................  Denny Robertson (MD)
    Russia....................................  Carol Peasley (MD)
    Rwanda....................................  Richard Goldman (MD)
    Senegal...................................  Donald Clark (MD)
    South Africa..............................  William S. Rhodes (MD)
    Tajikistan................................  Michael Harvey (DO)
    Tanzania..................................  Lucretia Taylor (MD)
    Uganda....................................  Dawn Liberi (MD)
    Ukraine...................................  Christopher Crowley (MD)
    Uzbekistan................................  James Goggin (DO)
    Zambia....................................  Allan Reed (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.
    Regional Economic Development Services   Donald R. MacKenzie (RD)
     Offices--Nairobi, Kenya.
    Regional Support Center--Budapest,       Patricia Lerner (RD)
     Hungary.
                 International Organizations and USAID Contacts

    Office for Humanitarian Assistance,      Timothy Lavelle (RD)
     World Food Program Affairs--Rome,
     Italy.
    Office of the U.S. Representative to     Kelly Kammerer (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-- C.A. Carrino (C)
     Tokyo, Japan.
    Office of AID Coordination               Kurt Fuller (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.

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    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, 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.

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