Message-ID: <365860EB.1FF78818@idn.org> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 14:07:23 -0500 From: Christopher Byrne <mailto:info@IDN.ORG> Subject: USAID Annual Performance Plan for FY 1999 Link To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Greetings and apologies for any cross-postings!This week's "Tools You Can Use" from the International Development Network (IDN) at http://www.idn.org/ is a link to the U.S. Agency for International Development Annual Performance Plan for FY 1999. This plan sets out the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Goals and Objectives by which USAID will be evaluated.
Here is what else is new this week: _______________________________________________________________________
QUICK LINK OF THE WEEK
This weeks IDN Quick Link is to the web site for the UNEP Sponsored International Children's Conference on the Environment which is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya this week. _______________________________________________________________________
NEW LINKS
The British Consultants Bureau (BCB) - Through regular liaison with British and international governments, MEPs, aid and funding agencies, the EU, and public and private sector contacts worldwide, BCB ensures that British consultants are represented with one voice in the international marketplace.
Compassion International - exists as an advocate for children, to release them from their spiritual, economic, social, and physical poverty and enable them to become responsible and fulfilled Christian adults.
Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) - is a multilateral financial institution which promotes sustainable development and regional integration by attracting capital resources for the provision of multiple financial services to the public and private sectors of the shareholders countries. (English/Spanish)
Green Globe - is a worldwide environmental management and awareness programme for, and led by the Travel & Tourism industry. Its prime objective is to provide a low-cost, practical means for all Travel & Tourism companies to undertake improvements in environmental practice.
International Commission of Jurists - mission is to promote the understanding and observance of the Rule of Law throughout the world.
International Federation of Agricultural Producers - organization of world farmers is the only worldwide body grouping together national farmers organizations.
Japan Foundation - established in 1972 as a special legal entity under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the purpose of promoting mutual understanding and friendship on the international scene.
Japan International Cooperation System (JICS) - is a public service corporation established in 1989. Its overall purpose is to help manage the rapidly expanding ODA budget by responding more effectively to the increasingly diverse and sophisticated needs of recipient countries.
Overseas Service Bureau - is a not-for-profit development agency that aims to build links and increase cooperation between Australians and people living in developing countries.
Pacific Development Directory - This directory, funded by the UNDP and the Government of New Zealand, brings together a catalogue of agencies with a shared concern for aid and development in the Pacific region. _______________________________________________________________________
NEW PUBLICATIONS
OECF (Japan) Special Report on Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: Toward Stability and Growth in Southwest Asia
The November 98 OECF Newsletter is a Special Report on Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: Toward Stability and Growth in Southwest Asia. This newsletter is available for download in PDF format (629K) from OECF (Link provided by the IDN). _______________________________________________________________________
THE DEVELOPMENT FRONT - Selected Sample Headlines From Nov 15-21
The following is a sample of the headline links provided to sponsoring members of the IDN last week:
War Stifles Guatemalan Town Plans
Bridge builds on hopes for new life in war-torn Guatemalan village
U.S. to set up trade offices in eastern Hungary to make up for the departure of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. urges Israel to act against copyright piracy
Corporate Welfare - OPIC and USAID Enterprise Funds
Packard Donation of $375 Million for Population Programs May Reshape Giving
Cambodia hoping for speedy admission to ASEAN
In wake of Mitch, years of economic hardship in store for Central America
China Denies $4.5B Asian Aid Package forthcoming at APEC
Urban Populations Grow with Economic Reforms
Foreign Aid Needed for Anti-Desertification Efforts
INTERVIEW-Gecamines chief denies Zimbabwe tradeoff
Canada Prepares $10 Million Aid Package for Siberia
Russia Continues Wheat Exports as Food Aid Pours in
Ukraine Opens Gas Pipe to Boost Energy Independence
Agriculture Officials Rule out Famine, Thumb Noses at Aid
Japan pledges loans to Peru
EU looks to help Russia with tuberculosis crisis
Colombia declares economic emergency to stem banking losses
Report: Suharto owns plantations in eastern Indonesia
Unions call another one-day strike in Zimbabwe
Kenya tea must seek new markets reform-experts
Daley visits USAID-funded water plant at Karni
ESCWA ambassadors meet director to discuss future
Germany Won't Give Russia Extra Aid
U.S. fund may pick up stake in Tirupur water project
World pumps aid into Honduras
Unnatural Disaster: In a region already scarred by politics, the rubble of Hurricane Mitch is no spur to unity
'A Social Time Bomb Is Ticking' In Venezuela
Col. Charming: Chávez's believers say their tough-guy hero can rescue Venezuela, Can he?
Banana Battle Burgeons: United States to European Union: treat our produce properly--or your magic industry is in serious trouble,
U.S. Generosity Is Long in Coming (Editorial)
Navy program helps Hondurans cope with Mitch trauma
Zimbabwe farmers in talks as state takes land
Sudan rebels agree to improve safety of aid workers
Zimbabwe counts cost of social unrest
Making aid work: Foreign aid could help to reduce poverty if it were spent on the right countries. Unfortunately, it isn’t
The non-profit sector: Love or money
Step-by-step with a Dutch Minister on aid-giving tour
In Panama, Drug Money's Clout Outlives Noriega
Debt pardons for Nicaragua Honduras seen
Yugoslavia to seek IMF membership in early 1999
Pakistan crisis seen requiring more than IMF deal
Jamaican leader urges Clinton to ease opposition in banana battle
Russia Peru and Vietnam enjoy their first summit
Malaysia opposition figure writes editorial from jail
China expels German magazine journalist
Pakistani prime minister calls for Taliban-style laws
Forestry officials order temporary halt to DiCaprio film in Thailand
U.N. Assembly backs Bethlehem 2000 project
Ethiopian Australian Jews turn to fellow Americans for help
China and the Internet: The Middle Kingdom struggles with being wired,
Bosnia envoy says peace program needs more money
Does aid work World Bank aims to prove answer yes
World Bank water mapping plan aims to aid farmers
Britain to help former Rouge rebels in Cambodia
AIDS is devouring African businesses too
S.Africa medical aid industry set for upheaval
AIDS cases to balloon in Asia - experts
India A Major Exporter Of Killer Chemical, USAID, Danida, ODA cited as sources of chemicals
World Bank Revolution (Editorial)
U.S. relief for Mitch lacking aid groups say
U.S. military boosting Central America aid effort
Help at hand for abused men of Swaziland
Burkina Faso president re-elected by large majority _______________________________________________________________________
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