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498-009USAID PROGRAM: Asia and the Near East Regional
PROGRAM TITLE: Promote a Clean Environmental Revolution in Asia (Pillar: Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: United States-Asia Environmental Partnership (USAEP), 498-009
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $10,000,000 DA
UNOBLIGATED PRIOR YEAR FUNDS AND FUNDING SOURCE: $1,571,737 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $8,000,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1992 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: ContinuingSummary: USAEP will—
- demonstrate to decision-makers involved in Asia’s industrialization and urbanization that improved environmental performance is consistent with economic growth;
- focus on four activity areas: public policy and environmental regulation; urban environmental management; industrial environmental management; and the export of U.S. environmental technology, expertise and practices to Asia; and
- actively engage the private sector—the primary engine of economic growth—to make the activities of Asian businesses cleaner and more efficient.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: FY 2002 Program: USAEP fosters partnerships that carry on outside the scope and duration of development agencies, mobilizing private initiative and resources that multiply the work of USAEP many times over. For example, it helps large firms put programs in place requiring environmental management standards for their extensive network of small- and medium-sized Asian suppliers, numbering in the thousands. In FY 2002, USAEP plans to help two more firms institutionalize such programs. USAEP is a regional program which not only links Asians with the United States but with other Asian countries, finding that an effective way to promote development in lesser developed countries is to partner them with more prosperous countries in Asia. For example, USAEP arranged for Thailand to share its experience with Vietnam, leading Vietnam to accelerate the phase-out of leaded gasoline by several years. This regional approach complements the core functions of USAID Missions. In FY 2002, USAEP will broker a partnership between Singapore and Indonesia to improve solid waste management in Indonesia. Another important benefit of USAEP’s approach is that it is able to tap into resources from outside the U.S. Government. Since the program began in 1992, USAEP has leveraged over one dollar for every USAID dollar. In FY 2002, USAEP expects to leverage an amount equal to at least half the USAID budget from outside sources. USAEP plans to create at least 50 new partnerships to promote cleaner growth in Asia in FY 2002 and continue at least 120 existing partnerships. The purpose of these partnerships is to strengthen environmental laws and regulatory compliance, improve environmental management in cities and industries, and enhance the flow of knowledge and technologies from the United States to Asia that promote growth while protecting the environment. In FY 2002, USAEP expects its activities to create or improve at least 10 environmental laws and regulations, and improve compliance with at least 10 laws.
Aside from regulations, the other side of the environmental equation is voluntary private-sector incentives to reduce pollution, use resources more efficiently, and thereby reduce operating costs. USAEP will continue to help create networks and associations in Asia that will work to help Asian industries operate more cleanly. USAEP will continue to help firms adopt programs for voluntary reporting on their environmental performance. To address the strain caused by Asia’s burgeoning cities, USAEP will help implement over 100 new or improved environmental practices and policies. Technology transfer helps Asia put cleaner growth into practice. USAEP assistance has resulted in $1.4 billion in exports from U.S firms to Asia for environmentally beneficial goods and services, in addition to numerous licensing agreements and joint ventures. Since about two-thirds of these sales were to USAEP’s five advanced developing economies (Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan), the phase-out of USAEP presence in four of these countries will significantly reduce USAEP-assisted exports, to an estimated $25 million in FY 2002. The hallmark partnership approach of USAEP embodies USAID’s Global Development Alliance model to mobilize expertise and resources from state agencies, businesses, professional associations, NGOs, and universities. USAEP supports the Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade pillar by promoting clean economic growth and technology transfer.
FY 2003 Program: USAEP will support similar activities in FY 2003.
Performance and Results: In FY 2001, USAEP made great strides in enabling the public sector to better protect the environment. USAEP provided assistance to develop a national Clean Water Act in the Philippines and to develop policies promoting the use of waste biomass to make energy and products. In Thailand, USAEP enhanced the ability of the judiciary to make environmental rulings; and USAEP helped accelerate the phase-out of leaded gasoline in Vietnam, and revise regulations in Vietnam’s Environmental Law. USAEP benefits health as well as the environment. Clean water kept flowing to Indonesia's urban poor through USAEP and Mission work with the Association of Indonesian Water Enterprises to train new directors for local "water enterprises." So far 36 out of 54 assisted enterprises have implemented recommendations to keep their operations viable and add new water connections. In India medical waste has long posed serious public health risks. To help Indian hospitals and nursing homes meet new Supreme Court rulings on medical waste, USAEP has been working both with medical facilities and government and public health officials. To ensure that the momentum supplied by the Supreme Court becomes institutionalized, USAEP is helping the Government of India put a regulatory framework in place, and brokered the transfer of U.S. technologies to help the situation.
USAEP has two programs to access the expertise of U.S. states and businesses located there. The partnership with the National Association of State Development Agencies provides matching grants to small- and medium-sized U.S. firms to help them market their environmental goods and services in Asia, usually via demonstrations and training for Asians. The program has engaged 46 states, generating over $400 million in export revenues and more than 850 new U.S. jobs. Independent research found that this program was the reason that 90% of recipients were able to make their first trip to Asia to introduce U.S. technologies there. USAEP’s partnership with the Council of State Governments has matched $5.4 million in grants with over $8.3 million. Several dozen NGOs, 105 U.S. firms, 116 state agencies, and 38 universities have participated. More important to the participants than the grants is help from USAEP field personnel linking them with key Asian officials and businesses.
Other Donor Programs: USAEP collaborates with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank. According to the manager of ADB’s Environment Division, USAEP played a noteworthy role "in the direction taken by ADB for the Asian Environmental Outlook, which has served as the basis for ADB’s new Environmental Policy." USAEP also influences World Bank loans. For example, USAEP launched a Resource City partnership between the cities of Seattle and Haiphong, Vietnam. Seattle and the Bank will build upon USAEP’s initial work with $500,000 and the project will ultimately facilitate more than $100 million in Bank loans for Haiphong urban development projects.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: USAEP is an interagency partnership of USAID with the Department of Commerce and the Environmental Protection Agency. USAEP’s two major contractors are the Institute for International Education and the Louis Berger Group. USAEP also has cost-sharing arrangements with the National Association of State Development Agencies, Council of State Governments, The Asia Foundation, and Kenan Institute. Other partners are the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Alliance to Save Energy, and various Asian and U.S. professional associations and NGOs.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
498-009 United States-Asia Environmental Partnership DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 152,949 Expenditures 148,442 Unliquidated 4,507 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 19,222 Expenditures 5,234 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 172,171 Expenditures 153,676 Unliquidated 18,495 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 1,572 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 10,000 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 11,572 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 8,000 Future Obligations 0 Est. Total Cost 191,743
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