Congressional Testimony

Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations

sgruber — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:57:16 +0000

Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Thank you Chairman Leahy, Ranking Member Graham, and members of the Committee. I am pleased to join you to discuss the President's fiscal year 2014 budget request for USAID.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama called upon our nation to join with the world in ending extreme poverty in the next two decades. Today, we have new tools that enable us to achieve a goal that was simply unimaginable in the past: the eradication of extreme poverty and its most devastating corollaries, including widespread hunger and preventable child and maternal deaths.

Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

sgruber — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:21:51 +0000

Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Thursday, April 25, 2013

The President’s fiscal year 2014 budget request responds to this call and the most critical development challenges of our time. It supports important global partnerships, including the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition and the Child Survival Call to Action, by increasing and focusing investments in food security and maternal and child health. It builds resilience in areas besieged by recurrent crisis and natural disaster, with a focus on the Horn of Africa and Sahel regions. And it advances a comprehensive food aid reform package that will enable us to feed two to four million additional people each year.

Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah Before The Senate Foreign Relations Committee

sgruber — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:02:29 +0000

Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah Before The Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations

sgruber — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:23:23 +0000

Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Testimony of Assistant Administrator Nancy E. Lindborg to the House Foreign Relations Committee

sgruber — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:41:52 +0000

Testimony of Assistant Administrator Nancy E. Lindborg to the House Foreign Relations Committee

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

We have just passed the two-year anniversary since the onset of the Syrian conflict. Sadly, the country continues to face a grim situation and an escalating humanitarian crisis. The dreams of those who first began with hopeful demonstrations on the street of Damascus are far from being realized. The statistics are numbing: more than 70,000 dead; more than 4 million people inside the country in need of assistance; and more than 2.5 million displaced from their homes. We have already reached the somber milestone of more than one million refugees in neighboring countries, with greater numbers of refugees fleeing the violence each day.

Testimony of Assistant Administrator Nancy Lindborg to the Senate Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

sgruber — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:26:04 +0000

Testimony of Assistant Administrator Nancy Lindborg to the Senate Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

We are facing a grim and escalating humanitarian crisis in Syria. The statistics are numbing: more than 70,000 dead; more than four million people inside the country in need of assistance, including over 2.5 million displaced from their homes. We have already surpassed the somber milestone of more than a million refugees who have fled to the relative safety of neighboring countries, with greater numbers of refugees fleeing the violence each day.

And behind these statistics are the stories of individual Syrians who have lost their homes, their livelihoods and all too often their loved ones. I had a sobering visit to the camps in Turkey and Jordan a month ago with Assistant Secretary Anne Richard and Ambassador Robert Ford. We stood at the border late one night as thousands of Syrians walked across into Jordan, including one young woman who was six months pregnant and fearful she would lose her child.

Testimony of Mark Feierstein Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

jbeekman — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:51:14 +0000

Testimony of Mark Feierstein Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, and Members of the Committee: Thank you for the invitation to testify today. I am grateful for the Committee's interest in the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) approach in Latin America and the Caribbean and pleased to have this opportunity to discuss the Obama Administration's development policy in the Americas. As always, I am eager to hear your advice and counsel as well.

Testimony of Assistant Administrator Earl Gast before the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs

sgruber — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:03:58 +0000

Testimony of Assistant Administrator Earl Gast before the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Mali is facing a complex emergency: a political crisis, recovery from a major drought, and threats to internal and regional security. I would like to provide an update on the current situation and how it has affected our programming, as well as outline the key factors that are needed for development to progress.

Testimony Of Tjada McKenna, Feed The Future Deputy Coordinator For Development, Before the Senate Foreign Relations International Development Subcommittee

sgruber — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:39:13 +0000

Testimony Of Tjada McKenna, Feed The Future Deputy Coordinator For Development, Before the Senate Foreign Relations International Development Subcommittee

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently released a report estimating that there are now approximately 870 million hungry people in the world, 98 percent of them living in developing countries. While these numbers have adjusted down from recent estimates, it is still 870 million too many. Compounding this problem, research indicates that by the year 2050, the world's population is projected to increase by 38 percent to more than 9 billion, which, combined with changing diets, will require up to a 60 percent increase in food production to feed us all. We confront these challenges in a world that has less land and fewer resources available for production.

Testimony of Assistant Administrator for Africa, Earl Gast, Before the House Subcommittee on African Affairs

sgruber — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:47:41 +0000

Testimony of Assistant Administrator for Africa, Earl Gast, Before the House Subcommittee on African Affairs

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Consistent with the U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, USAID's development activities target the root causes of the popular frustration with the Government of Nigeria that stokes instability in the North, Middle Belt and Niger Delta regions: poor governance, insufficient respect for human and civil rights, inadequate delivery of basic services, and a lack of economic opportunity, particularly for young Nigerians. Creating a culture of peace that acknowledges and transcends Nigeria's ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity is critical for stability, democracy, and economic development.