| |  Director of U.S. Foreign AssistanceThe Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance, Henrietta Fore, is charged with directing the transformation of the U.S. Government approach to foreign assistance. The Director holds a rank equivalent to Deputy Secretary and serves concurrently as USAID Administrator, ensuring that foreign assistance is used as effectively as possible to meet broad foreign policy objectives.
The Director of Foreign Assistance:
- Has authority over all Department of State and USAID foreign assistance funding and programs, with continued participation in program planning, implementation, and oversight from the various bureaus and offices within State and USAID, as part of the integrated interagency planning, coordination and implementation mechanisms;
- Develops a coordinated U.S. Government foreign assistance strategy, including multi-year country specific assistance strategies and annual country-specific assistance operational plans;
- Creates and directs consolidated policy, planning, budget and implementation mechanisms and staff functions required to provide umbrella leadership to foreign assistance; and
- Provides guidance to foreign assistance delivered through other agencies and entities of the U.S. Government, including the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator.
- As USAID Administrator, Henrietta H. Fore was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate on November 14, 2007.
FY 2009 Budget Material
Consistent with Secretary Rice's ongoing commitment to foreign assistance reform, the FY 2009 budget reflects an alignment of resources with U.S. national security and development objectives. The FY 2009 request represents the Administration's best judgment of the resources that are necessary to support U.S. efforts in the war on terror and confront other security challenges, restore the USAID's capacity to manage its increased responsibilities in managing and implementing assistance, redouble efforts to reduce poverty through economic and democratic transformation, respond to humanitarian crises, and promote human development around the world. FY 2009 budget details are available in the links provided below:
 Building "Bridges of Understanding"
Under Secretary Fore (Oct. 16): "We are using $1.4 billion of the taxpayers' money to leverage $4.8 billion in private money -- and in the process, leveraging the imagination and energy of thousands of people who have not traditionally been engaged in critical development issues." Full Text
Romania and Bulgaria Mark a New Partnership With the United States
 Under Secretary Fore (Oct. 10): "It is an honor and truly my pleasure to join you to celebrate what is an extraordinary milestone for Bulgaria, and for the U.S. Government. For the past 17 years, we have worked as partners in Bulgaria's transition. Today, as we mark the end of one aspect of our transformative relationship, we also celebrate the dawn of a new partnership that will sustain Bulgaria's exceptional progress for generations to come." Full Text
 Under Secretary Fore (Oct. 9): "It is truly amazing how far Romania has progressed in what is really a "blink of the eye" in historical terms. From 1989 and the Romanian people's uprising against their oppressive dictator, to the Romania of today, to the Romania we celebrate tonight: a democratic, economically strong country, firmly part of Europe, a member of NATO, a key U.S. ally. I am simply in awe of what you, the Romanian people, have accomplished in less than two decades."Full Text
 USAID Annual Iftaar Dinner: Celebrating Compassion and Equity
Under Secretary Fore (Oct. 4): "We gather here tonight in the cause of advancing peace and tolerance and prosperity and freedom and faith. As we celebrate this special Iftaar this evening, we hope to reaffirm the ties of friendship and partnership that unite all of us, as religious peoples and the sons and daughters of the Abrahamic faiths."Full Text
 Promoting and Increasing Public-Private Alliances in Education
Under Secretary Fore (Oct. 3): "While education is primarily a public good, the private sector is completely dependent on the educational system for its skilled workforce. Thus, it has an important role to play in ensuring that each country's education sector strategy is both relevant and responsive to the needs of private enterprises--large and small." Full Text
| | | Highlights | Poverty and Development: Three Paradoxes
Director Fore (May 9): "The longer you work in humanitarian assistance and development, the more striking some of its paradoxes become. Today I'd like to give you my thoughts on three of them." (read more)
Foreign Assistance: An Agenda for Reform
Director Fore (Feb. 1): "Today, I am going to offer you an aggressive agenda to modernize and revitalize foreign assistance." (read more)
New Fact Sheet: The U.S. and International Development--Partnering for Growth
The United States is committed to helping the world's poor. Development depends on good, accountable governance and economic policies unleashing private sector growth. This updated fact sheet outlines the U.S. record in development assistance and provides a brief description of the various elements of the U.S. contribution to development, including the Millennium Challenge Account, PEPFAR and other health initiatives, relief and humanitarian assistance, and more.
FY 2008 Supplemental Appropriations Justification
October 22: The White House formally submitted its second supplemental request to Congress. The FY 2008 Supplemental Appropriations Justification details the emergency funding requested as part of the International Affairs budget.
A New Consensus in International Development
Under Secretary Fore: "Today, we are at the threshold of a new era. And in this new era we are just beginning to create what could be described as a Global Development Commons. A Global Development Commons would be a community of continuous and real-time exchange, collaboration, partnership and action between public and private donors, agencies, NGOs, host governments and civil society-all operating as equals." Full Text
FY 2008 Foreign Affairs (Function 150) Budget Request
--Congressional Budget Justification [PDF]
--Summary and Highlights of the annual International Affairs (Function 150) Budget Request (provides an overview of the total funding requested in four appropriations bills for the programs and activities of the International Affairs budget)
--Fact Sheets about the new structure of the Summary and Highlights and about the budget request
--On-the-Record Briefing
State/USAID Highlights Report:
This joint Highlights Report, prepared by the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is a summary of the two agencies' 2007 performance, budget and financial information as well as a summary of their budget requests for 2008 and 2009. |
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