Development PlenaryJune 5, 2008

Maria Rendon

Advisor to the US Executive Director

marendon@usaid.gov

USAID presence in the world

Source: USAID Primer 2006

Relationships: White House, Congress

USAID/Washington Structure

STATE and USAID’s Strategic Goals

• Achieving Peace and Security • Governing Justly and

Democratically • Investing in People • Promoting Economic Growth and

Prosperity • Providing Humanitarian

Assistance • Promoting International

Understanding

• Strengthening Consular and

Management Capabilities

Diplomacy

Development Defense

State and USAID’s FY2007 budget

Source: CBJ FY2009

Total: $19,801,551,000

34%

6%33%

11%

12% 4%

Peace and Security

Governing Justly andDemocratically

Investing in People

Economic Growth

HumanitarianAssistance

Program Support

Global Food Insecurity and Price Increase

37 countries throughout every region of the world are experiencing localized food insecurity, lack of access to food, or shortfalls in food production or supplies

Among the populations affected are people in Tajikistan.

To date, USAID/OFDA and State aid to Tajikistan totals more than $2.5 million.

Humanitarian Assistance to Burma

Health

• HIV/AIDs: USAID has funded almost $6 billion since inception of its international HIV/AIDs program in 1986. USAID currently has HIV/AIDs program in nearly 100 countries worldwide.

• Infectious Diseases: USAID’s infectious disease initiative, launched in 1998, focuses on preventing diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis while also strengthening the treatment and control programs that exist in the health care system.

• Nutrition: In 2005, USAID supported 22 food fortification programs with the potential to reach nearly 500 million people in 19 countries.

Office of Development

Partners (ODP)

Millennium Challenge

Corporation (MCC)

Private SectorAlliances Division

(PSA)

Bilateral and Multilateral

Donor Division(BMD)

Office of Development Partners Structure

Coco-Cola Partnership

Problem: By 2025, 2.8 billion people in 48 countries are expected to face severe and chronic water shortages.

Solution: In 2004, USAID and the Coca-Cola Company formed the Watershed Partners Program to support water-related programs in developing countries where both partners operate.

Starbucks PartnershipProblem: Rwanda is a land-locked country with the highest population density in Africa. Historically, Rwandans grew coffee as a cash crop but most farms are less than half a hectare and cannot support families.Solution: Starbucks Company with USAID helped Rwandan farmers upgrade their coffee-farming infrastructure and provided expertise to help the farmers produce higher quality coffee that could then be sold at higher prices.

• DLI will enable USAID to more effectively meet US government development objectives.

• USAID will recruit, hire, and train 300 new Foreign Service Officers in critical stewardship and technical backstops.

• DLI will strengthen our capacity to provide leadership overseas to develop, implement, and integrate programs that bring peace, prosperity, and security.

Total Full-Time Employees: 8,117

Workforce Composition (as of September 2004)

FSOs14%

FSNs61%

Other11%

USCS14%

Development Leadership Initiative (DLI)