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Today in Bridgetown, Barbados, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green announced $10 million to improve local resilience to disasters in priority countries in the Caribbean. With this new funding, USAID will support community-level organizations, host-country governments, regional institutions, and the private sector to strengthen local, national, and regional planning and preparation for hurricanes, earthquakes, and other calamities. For example, USAID will finance training for local first-responders, harmonize disaster-preparedness standards, and coordinate and facilitate information-sharing among the governments of the region and civil society.
Today, the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced 13 new grants that total over $15.5 million to test and scale promising solutions to global development challenges. DIV is the Agency's open innovation program that selects, through a detailed process of applications and co-creation, breakthrough solutions that demonstrate rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and viable pathways to scale and sustainability.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green visited the Republic of Haïti from December 12-14, 2019.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Child Relief International to further the systematic approach of USAID's Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) to maximizing measurable development outcomes worldwide. DIV is USAID's open innovation program that identifies, pilots, and tests breakthrough solutions that demonstrate rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and viable pathways to scale and sustainability.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green will travel to the Republic of Haïti and Barbados from December 12-16, 2019, to underscore the United States' continuing commitment to the people of the Caribbean.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is funding the World Health Organization (WHO) to help coordinate international aid for the outbreak of measles in the Independent State of Samoa. USAID is providing $200,000 in disaster assistance to fund the WHO's coordination of, and support for, international efforts to respond to the highly contagious disease.
To commemorate International Human Rights Day, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reaffirms our commitment to promote and protect the basic rights of all individuals in the countries in which we work as we help them build towards self-reliance and citizen-responsive governance.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) congratulates Dr. Michael Kremer, Co-Founder and Scientific Director of USAID's Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program, on receiving the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics on December 10, 2019, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sharing with you the below media advisory from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, regarding USAID's own Dr. Michael Kremer, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2019.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Water Coordinator and Deputy Assistant Administrator for Food Security Jennifer Mack will travel to the Republic of Sénégal from December 9-13, 2019.
On December 3, 2019, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green met with His Excellency Abdalla Hamdok, Ph.D., Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan, in Washington, D.C. This was Prime Minister Hamdok's first visit to USAID.
In Fiscal Year 2018, we challenged ourselves to increase the use of co-creation for new awards all across the world in all of our geographic regions. In 2019, thanks to you, we met or exceeded our goals in four of the six regions in which we work. That could never have happened without all of you, your willingness to push the envelope, your willingness to embrace new ideas.
Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) announced a $37.5 million partnership to help reconnect communities and promote cross-border relationships in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. The partnership, Local Impact, will enable communities in the two countries to plan, fund, and manage their own development by using a co-creation process whereby they develop their own solutions in collaboration with USAID and the AKF. Over the next five years, pending annual appropriations, Local Impact could expand to other parts of Asia and Africa.
This Sunday, December 1, 2019, the international community will recognize World AIDS Day. Since 2003, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been a proud implementer of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and a leader in worldwide efforts to control and, ultimately, end the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Good morning everyone, and thank you for that kind introduction.
I want to begin by thanking the government of Hungary for all it is doing to help the United States Agency for International Development to support and nurture not only the Christian community in Northern Iraq, but also other religious minorities in that fragile remnant of what was once such a beautiful mosaic of faiths.
The following is attributable to Acting Spokesperson Pooja Jhunjhunwala:
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Administrator Bonnie Glick traveled to the Republic of Hungary from November 24 to 27, 2019.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Administrator Bonnie Glick will travel to Ithaca, New York, from December 2-3, 2019.
Released by Results for America (RFA) last month, the 2019 Invest in What Works Federal Standard of Excellence report once again shows the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a leader among Federal Departments and Agencies on data-driven decision-making. The report highlights nine U.S.
So one year ago at the UN General Assembly, we launched USAID's Global Accelerator to end TB. Alongside heads of state from countries where TB is most prevalent, we committed to an ambitious goal of reaching 40 million people with treatment by 2022. The Accelerator uses a new business model to get us there. One built around catalyzing local resources and private sector investments, tapping into local expertise, including the faith-based organizations that have earned unique trust in many hard to reach communities and using data-driven performance-based metrics to optimize our investments.
Today's USAID is being reshaped around several driving principles. As Beth said, we believe the purpose of traditional foreign assistance must be ending its need to exist. We believe that every individual, every family, every community has an instinctive desire to want to lead their own bright future, to be self-reliant. We believe that private enterprise is the most powerful force on earth for uplifting communities and families. Our decades of experience tells us that in many places, in most places, agriculture led growth is the clearest pathway towards self-reliance. It led us through initiatives like Feed the Future, which is built around harnessing the innovation and ingenuity of the private sector to develop market-based solutions that empower smallholder farmers. We're striving to move beyond merely grants and contracts to engage in co-design, co-creation, co-financing. In other words, true collaboration.
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