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 UpdatesUSAID Secures Commitments for More Water Partnerships Representatives from Australian and Japanese national water associations agreed to encourage partnerships among water utilities after exploring their advantages at a meeting with the founders of the WaterLinks network – USAID, the International Water Association and the Asian Development Bank – at Singapore International Water Week. WaterLinks helps provide clean drinking water to communities by fostering technical exchanges, or “twinning,” between water and wastewater service providers in developing and industrialized countries. USAID Developing Environmental Service Markets to Support Green Growth in Asia More than 100 policy makers and development experts explored innovative approaches to sustainable conservation financing in Southeast Asia at a USAID-sponsored Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) workshop in Bangkok. With USAID support, Vietnam has just become the region’s first country to develop a national pilot PES policy and demonstrate how payments to rural residents can lessen environmental degradation. Groundwork is now under way for similar USAID-sponsored programs in Laos and Cambodia. Cooperatives Strengthen Tibetan Communities USAID is developing cooperatives to help nomadic communities gain self-sufficiency by improving their livestock and products and creating a stronger market for them. Bridge Fund pilot programs in Mintang and Drugyu Townships in Qinghai Province benefit an estimated 600 Tibetan herders and are creating a model that can be adopted in other nomadic communities. USAID Sponsors Exchange to Establish Environmental Court in Thailand U.S. and Australian judges and legal scholars met with their Thai counterparts at a USAID-supported meeting to discuss court policies and procedures that could lead to the establishment of an environmental court in Thailand. India Approves Funds to Reduce Emissions at Power Plants By approving funding to modernize three aging, coal-fired power plants, India is reducing emissions the equivalent of taking nearly 225,000 cars off the road over the lifetime of the plants. USAID’s ECO-Asia Clean Development and Climate Program has been working with India’s Ministry of Power and other partners to improve the efficiency of India’s existing power plants and create policies that benefit the environment. USAID's Regional Development Mission for Asia
The Mission’s regional approach to development projects provides a cost-effective way to manage services and programs. It strengthens regional institutions and helps to engage regional and international partners. RDMA was established in Bangkok in 2003 to manage bilateral USAID programs in Asian countries without USAID Missions, including Burma, China, Laos, and Thailand. It now oversees bilateral and regional programs that benefit all of East Asia and much of South Asia. |
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USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA) oversees a broad portfolio of programs addressing numerous regional and transnational issues, such as responsible use of natural resources, improved access to clean water, reducing the incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, prevention of human and wildlife trafficking, facilitating trade, and resolving political and economic conflict.
