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The first, by sculptor and Washington, D.C. native Stephen Robin, is a gigantic rose with stem and a lily, both made out of cast aluminum and lying on stone pedestals. [43] The second, by Washington, D.C. native Martin Puryear, is a Minimalist tower of brown welded metal titled "Bearing Witness", which stands in Woodrow Wilson Plaza. [43]
USAID's staffing reported to Congress in June 2016 totaled 10,235, including both field missions "overseas" (7,176) and the Washington DC headquarters (3,059). [32] Of this total, 1,850 were USAID Foreign Service officers who spend their careers mostly residing overseas (1,586 overseas in June 2016) and partly on rotation in Washington DC (264).
The Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) and was developed to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance to take advantage of windows of opportunity to build democracy and peace.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation headquarters plaque in Washington, DC. In the American effort to rebuild Europe following World War II , it became clear to the policymakers that private investment is a powerful generator of economic development and that there is an appropriate role for government in encouraging private investment ...
1811 Q St NW, Washington, DC 20009 Dupont Circle [182] Bolivia: Consulate-General 718 Connecticut Ave. NW, 2nd Floor Dupont Circle [183] Brazil: Consulate-General 1030 15th Street NW Downtown [184] Chile: Consular Section 1736 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Embassy Row [185] China: Consular Section 2201 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Suite 110 Observatory ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will distribute $1 billion in U.S. commodities to countries with high hunger rates, the agencies said on Thursday.
DFC has collaborated with USAID and other U.S. agencies in the Power Africa program, which has facilitated power sector deals across the continent, [20] and the Prosper Africa Initiative, launched in 2018 with the goal of promoting U.S.-Africa investment and trade, countering Chinese influence. [20] [21]
Chemonics, established in 1975 as a subsidiary of Erly Industries, [11] is an employee-owned, for-profit corporation based in Washington, D.C. [3] The international development and consulting firm has received some of the U.S. government's largest aid contracts supporting agriculture, conflict and crisis, democracy, economic development, education, energy, governance, health care and supply ...