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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Chief Climate Officer Gillian Caldwell and others discussed how media can support action on climate change. Topics included using media to h…

USAID Administrator Samantha Power, USAID’s mission director for Ukraine, and two leaders from Ukrainian civil society talked about the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) and USAID co-hosted a panel discussion on global initiatives to advance women in the economy. Speakers included Ivanka Trump, daughter and advise…

Heather Higginbottom and Rajiv Shah spoke to reporters about President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal for their respective agencies. Heather Higginbottom said her State Department’…

Gene Sperling talked about the challenges involved with providing education services for children in conflict zones, including the lack of education for girls in Afghanistan. He also compare…

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah spoke about challenges ahead for achieving Universal Primary Education, one of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals and the focus of USAID’s Global…

Abraham Awolich, one of Sudan’s “Lost Boys” spoke at an education summit held by the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was displaced from his village in 1988 during the Sudanese …

Gene Sperling talked about the lack of education for girls in Afghanistan. This was a brief portion of his remarks during a plenary session of the United States Agency for International Deve…

Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at a spoke at a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) summit on global educations. He talked about the importance of K-12 education in the U…

Carol Bellamy, former executive director of UNICEF, talked about education in conflict zones. This was a brief portion of her remarks during a plenary session of the United States Agency for…

Current and former presidents spoke about their experiences as women leaders. Among the topics they addressed were leadership challenges in developing nations, foreign aid and assistance pro…

Panelists spoke about foreign aid and assistance programs, focusing on development and relief work in Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and Yemen.

Outgoing Republican Senator Dick Lugar spoke about foreign aid and assistance programs and said that he was concerned that U.S. foreign aid money was increasingly going to climate change pro…

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees and staff. She addressed some of the agency’s future missions, and th…

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) held a ceremony in honor of International Women’s Day in the Atrium Hall of the Ronald Reagan Building.

Following a brief video, USAID officials announced the findings of a major vaccine trial in Gambia. The trial of large numbers of children in a typically rural African setting showed that pr…

Participants talked to reporters about a proposed public-private partnership to provide aid to West Africa. The project would provide water and sanitary facilities to people in three African…

Representatives of USAID and the Elizabeth Glaser Foundation talked with reporters about efforts to prevent the mother-to-child transmission of HIV and about developments that came out of th…

Head of the U.S. Agency for International Development Brian Atwood described the devastation in Central America caused by Hurricane Mitch and then described the efforts being taken to provid…

Mr. Brian Atwood and Ms. Hilde Johnson talked about international development in health, literacy, and life expectancy.