Press
 Replicability
and Sustainability in U.S.-Ukraine Partnerships
U.S.-Ukraine Foundation's Community Partnership Program
The E&E Deputy Assistant Administrator gave the keynote
luncheon address July 23 in St. Louis at the U.S.-Ukraine
Foundation's conference on Replicability and Sustainability
in U.S.-Ukraine Partnerships. The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation's
Community Partnership Program (CPP), funded by E&E since
1997, currently supports partnerships between 14 U.S. and
14 Ukrainian medium-sized cities and focuses on strengthening
local government and promoting citizens' participation at
the grassroots level. Read
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Press Releases from USAID/Macedonia's
Community Self-Help Initiative
The Community Self Help Initiative is a USAID-funded program
in Macedonia that assists communities to plan and implement
projects that promote democracy and ethnic harmony, and provide
sustainable benefits to their inhabitants. The CSHI helps
foster self-determination at the community level and promotes
ethnic collaboration through economic development and participatory
community planning activities. See the links below for recent
examples of CSHI success stories.
 $25
Million Raised for Balkans Through Public-Private Partnership:
Donors Leverage Funds to Solidify Democracy
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the
German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), and the
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation are pleased to announce a
new $25 million initiative to support good governance in
Southeastern Europe. The grant-making effort, called the
Balkan Trust for Democracy, is a project of GMF made possible
through a public-private partnership between GMF, USAID,
and the Mott Foundation. Read
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 USAID
Welcomes Formation of Joint Partnership Between Pennsylvania,
Hungary Health Organizations
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) welcomed
the signing today of an agreement establishing a joint Hungarian-U.S.
health partnership. In comments in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
this afternoon at a ceremony marking the event, Dr. Kent
R. Hill, USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia,
praised the creation of the new partnership and emphasized
the importance of these types of relationship to foreign
assistance and international development. Read
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 USAID
Enterprise Funds are at the Forefront of Creating Home
Mortgages in Europe and Eurasia
In January, 2003, the Government of Romania approved the
formation of the first financial institution dedicated solely
to providing mortgage financing for individual home ownership.
The new institution, The Romanian Mortgage Loan Company (Ro-Fin),
is a joint public-private partnership created with $1.3 million
in funding from USAID Romania. These funds have leveraged
$34.0 million in capital for RO-FIN. Read
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 USAID/Serbia & Montenegro
Announces Launch of its New Website
USAID has been working in Serbia and Montenegro since 1997.
The USAID program supports Serbia and Montenegro in their
goal to be democratic, prosperous and moving toward Europe.
Our strategy aims to strengthen democracy and governance,
to support a large civil society program that fosters democracy
at the local level, and to support sustained private sector
growth and economic integration with Europe through broad-based
policy reform. Visit
their website ...
 Water
Means Life in Macedonia
Before the Veles water supply project was implemented, the
homes of the town’s happy children were at times without
water for days at a time, and even when water was available
it was usually insufficient due to lack of water pressure
in that hilly neighborhood. Read
more ...
 Serbia
Heating and Energy Efficiency Program
In the immediate aftermath of the resignation of President
Milosevic in October 2000, the new government of Serbia faced
critical shortages of electricity in large part caused by
extremely low prices that artificially increased demand.
Serbia’s use of electric heating is much higher than
elsewhere, where it is usually more expensive than other
heating methods. In March 2001, USAID funded a Heating and
Energy Efficiency program to help citizens deal with energy
shortages as well as with the large increases in prices that
were widely understood to be inevitable. Read
more ...
 Indiana
Utility Authority Signs Partnership Agreement with Albanian
Electricity Authority
The Electricity Regulatory Authority of Albania (ERE) and
the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) today signed
a memorandum of understanding cementing a partnership designed
to aid Albania in restructuring and reforming its energy
sector. Read more
...
 USAID/Russia
Announces Launch of its New Website
USAID has operated in Russia since 1992. We have worked
in close collaboration with Russian partners from federal,
regional, and municipal governments, non-governmental and
non-commercial organizations, and the private sector. We
are proud of the partnerships we have forged - and proud
of the important results achieved under our joint programs
throughout this vast country. Visit
their website ...
 Southern
Serbia: Sowing Seeds of Change
The Presevo Valley is a remote finger of Serbia located
between Bulgaria to the east, Macedonia to the south, and
Kosovo to the west. Its gently rolling farmland lies nestled
between mountains to the north that separate it from the
rest of Serbia, even higher ranges on the east and west that
demarcate its respective boundaries with Bulgaria and Kosovo,
and a broad plain it shares with Macedonia to the south.
The area is flecked with a few major towns and numerous small
hamlets which are generally either ethnic Albanian or Serb. Read
more ...
 USAID
Program Brings Macedonia Education Experts to Seattle
Local education experts from Macedonia arrived in Seattle,
Washington on December 8 for a week-long study tour to the
United States sponsored by the USAID. A team of four education
consultants will be visiting Seattle, Washington from December
8 to December 13, 2002 to examine various alternatives in
the education sector and to exchange ideas and concepts with
educational counterparts in the United States. The team members
chosen for this program are all well-known experts in the
field of educational reform in Macedonia. Read
more ...
 USAID,
Cleveland State University Bring Croatian Officials to
Ohio
USAID and the Unger Croatia Center for Local Government
Leadership at Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman
Levin College of Urban Affairs sponsored a two-week conference
for local government officials from Croatia on “Citizen
Participation in Local Government” from November 30
to December 14, 2002. Read
more ...
 Kosovo
Prime Minister Meets With USAID Assistant Administrator
Dr. Kent R. Hill, USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe
and Eurasia, met with Kosovo Prime Minister Dr. Bajram Rexhepi
and Minister of Economy and Finance Ali Sadriu on Wednesday
at the USAID headquarters in Washington. Read
more ...
 Video:
Dr. Kent R. Hill in a Television Interview
Assistant Administrator Dr. Kent R. Hill appeared on The
Editors, a half-hour public television program in Toledo,
Ohio. The discussion included wide-ranging topics such as
the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic, services of the missions,
USAID's relationship with the State Department, how the fall
of communism affected USAID's foreign aid policies, and much,
much more. Watch
the interview ...
 Land
Title Reform - Akhalgori, Georgia
For Rusudan Pavliashvili, it was going to be a big day.
She stood with scores of her neighbors in the shade of the
tall poplar trees sheltering from the hot July sun. They
waited quietly, almost reverently in front of the run-down
municipal building for what promised to be a truly memorable
event. Today, the land that Stalin and the Bolsheviks had
taken away decades earlier, was about to be given back to
her by the Government of Georgia. Read
more ...
 The
Building Blocks of International Relations
(Read the write-up in the Bowling
Green News, 9/12/02)
As we approached the airport the scene from above appeared
one of tranquility and beauty. Small villages sprawled throughout
a rural landscape, country houses with tiled roofs and farm
animals roaming in nearby fields. Read
more ...
 U.S.
Foreign Assistance Makes a Difference
Imagine living in a country where you could not own property:
you could not buy or sell a home or leave it to your children;
you could not own the land you farmed; you could not own
the property on which you did business. Indeed, you would
have a very hard time doing any kind of business at all,
as there would be no banking system as we know it, no possibility
of getting a mortgage or other credit, no judicial system
to enforce a contract. Read
more ...
Asia-Plus: The First Independent Radio Station Registered
in the Tajik Capital
On August 28, 2002, three and a half years after the independent
news agency and production house Asia-Plus first applied
for a broadcasting license, the government of Tajikistan
finally granted the radio station the right to operate. Asia-Plus
Radio is the first non-state radio station broadcasting in
the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. Two other independent radio
stations in Dushanbe received licenses on this date, but
neither has started broadcasting yet. Read
more ...
Controlling Conflict in Central Asia
What we now know as the sovereign territories of Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were
created by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in the 1920s to
divide and conquer the Central Asian peoples. The artificial
boundaries separated communities, created ethnic enclaves,
and disrupted patterns of trade and movement. Read
more ...
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