Introduction
ANE regional programs are responding to crucial elements of the President's National Security Strategy and achieving important International Affairs Goals, including fostering a comprehensive peace in the Middle East; responding to the Asian financial crisis; promoting democracy, human rights, and rule of law; and addressing poverty, regional stability, and climate change issues in South Asia. Regional program resources engage a broad range of partners in implementation, including private voluntary and local non-government organizations (PVOs and NGOs), international organizations, other U.S. Government agencies, regional institutions, and other donors.
The Development Challenge
ANE sub-regions are facing greater challenges and opportunities today than at any time in the past 20 years. The major development challenges to which the United States, other key donors, and many of the nations in the region must respond include:
- encouraging and maintaining peace and security, particularly in the Middle East, but also in East and South Asia;
- fostering and restoring economic growth through free trade and investment;
- promoting democracy, human rights and rule of law, particularly in Indonesia; and
- combating problems that affect global security, stability, and economic development (such as environmental degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, HIV/AIDS, population growth and food insecurity).
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