USAID Weekly
ISSUE XI • October 3
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A New Consensus in
International Development
Remarks by Henrietta H. Fore
Acting USAID Administrator and Acting Director of U.S.
Foreign Assistance at the U.S. Global Leadership
Campaign and Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Luncheon. September 19, 2007
 Today, and over
the next sixteen
months, I would
like to ask you to
join me in forging a
New Consensus
about the future of
international
development. If, as
I believe, we are
entering a new era
of international development, a Global Development
Commons where the connections between businesses, organizations, and resources matter more than ever, an era
when we need tolerant information, ideas, technology, and
public-private partnerships to spur innovation and deliver
results, when host countries must be at the center of our
collective thought and action. If you accept my invitation, I
pledge to be inclusive and earnest in building this new
consensus. You'll find me a great collaborator - and we
couldn't ask for a better sponsor or more powerful advocate
than Secretary Rice.
To our many shared stakeholders, I would suggest that we
put at least as much energy into communicating what
unites us as declaring our differences and inevitable
shortcomings. For there is one thing of which I am
absolutely certain: A New Consensus will only emerge if -
together - we seek it. HTU (Full speech)
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PEPFAR and the Global AIDS Response
Remarks by Dr. Kent R. Hill
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
September 20, 2007
I'm quite optimistic that we are making progress on this front, but we need to be more aggressive in making progress, particularly on this prevention front, so that we can divide the turf up in ways that all the work gets done. We don't have enough money to do everything, so we really need to do as well as we can with our coordination. You know, this is a really big issue, and we must avoid tunnel vision in considering all that needs to be done. We have to connect our HIV/AIDS efforts to all the other development issues. And I think if we redouble our efforts -- and not just our money, but if we work smarter and we cooperate better and we focus on prevention and deal with some of these prevention drivers that we haven't spent enough time on, we can make a difference, but it's going to require all of this for us to succeed. (Full speech)
USAID World News
In The News
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USAID Provides Additional Flood Assistance to Uganda
USAID is providing an additional $400,000 to assist flood-affected populations in Eastern Uganda. The funds will be used to purchase and distribute shelter materials, improve access to safe water and provide agricultural and other necessary assistance …
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Telling Our Story
Rebuilding Villages through Consensus
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Photo: AIT/Vinij Tan |
“Villagers from the Kampuan subdistrict in southern Thailand gather regularly at town hall meetings to discuss relief efforts and community priorities.”
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