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	USAID: The Global Development Alliance
		GDA mobilizes the ideas, efforts and resources of governments, businesses and civil society by forging public-private alliances to stimulate economic growth, develop businesses and workforces, address health and environmental issues, and expand access to education and technology.
		The Global Development Alliance approach responds to this changed environment, and it extends USAID’s reach and effectiveness in meeting development objectives by combining its strengths with the resources and capabilities of other prominent actors.
		The resources united are as diverse as the alliances themselves, including technology and intellectual property rights, market creation, best practices, policy influence, in-country networks, and expertise in development programs ranging from international trade to biodiversity protection.
	www.usaid.gov /our_work/global_partnerships/gda (788 words)

	Global Development Alliance at a Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1970, 70% of official development assistance (ODA) to the developing world was from the United States government and 30% was from the private sector.
		Today, 20% of the flows to the developing world are from ODA and 80% are from the private sector (we include here: private sector, non-profit sector and remittances).
		The Global Development Alliance serves as a catalyst to mobilize ideas, efforts, and resources of the public sector, the private sector and non-governmental organizations in support of shared objectives.
	www.usembassy.bg /pao/gda.html (560 words)

	International Association of Local and Regional Development Funds (IADF)
		This Global Development Alliance (GDA) is designed to help foster reforms in developing countries’ municipal financing mechanisms to enable improved access to water and sanitation, using approaches that have proved highly effective for municipalities in the United States.
		Develop action plans in two developing countries to increase municipal investments in water and sanitation and establish revolving funds.
		Alliance partners are working on a guide of best practices in revolving fund management, assembled from the experiences of fund managers from countries around the world; this guide is expected to be published in late 2004.
	www.sdp.gov /initiative/36595pf.htm (894 words)

	United Nations Conference on Environment and Development on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sustainable development is the growth of population, industry, and agriculture in a way that will allow the present generation to meet its own needs without damaging those of future generations.
		Two binding declarations-to minimize global climate change (see global warming) and to stem the depletion of the world's inventory of biological diversity were signed by more than 150 countries at the conference, with others expected to sign later.
		Millennium Development Goals status report issued, as poverty takes centre stage in global negotiations; UN sees gains on poverty worldwide, but huge gaps remain in meeting vital human needs.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/e/e-u1n1c1onfer.asp (467 words)

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		The Alliance members belong to the International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage, a global network of more than 20 organizations that recognizes the potential for using low-cost water quality interventions to reduce the risk of diarrhea disease and death.
		GDA mobilizes the ideas, efforts, and resources of governments, businesses, and civil society by forging public-private alliances to stimulate economic growth, develop businesses and workforces, address health and environmental issues, and expand access to education and technology.
		Responding to the fact that the majority of resource flows from the developed to the developing world is through private channels, not government, this approach extends USAID's reach and effectiveness in meeting development objectives by combining its strengths with the resources and capabilities of other prominent actors.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2004/04-29-2.htm (1314 words)

	United States Agency for International Development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Agency for International Development (or USAID) is the US government organization responsible for most non-military foreign aid.
		The 2003 budget of President Bush proposed $11.4 billion in foreign aid with an additional $4.3 billion for peacekeeping operations and to finance, train, and educate foreign armed forces.
		By fiscal year 2006, the President's budget requested $9.1 billion for development and humanitarian assistance administered by USAID; the Agency will uniquely program and manage approximately $5.0 billion and manage an additional $4.1 billion in coordination with the Department of State.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development (737 words)

	allAfrica.com: PanAfrica [interview]: USAID Forges a New Model for Development Assistance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In several public speeches in recent weeks, he has argued that the GDA is a response to significant changes in the development assistance environment.
		And he hails the GDA director, Holly Wise, as the personification of that new era of collaboration, efficiency and the leveraging of limited resources for greater impact.
		GDA represents a way that we look at the world now, and a way that we re-think the appropriate role of U.S. foreign assistance in that world.
	allafrica.com /stories/200312090717.html (4739 words)

	Global Development Alliance (98.011)
		Prospective alliance partners are strongly encouraged to seek field Mission or Washington operating unit input prior to submission of a proposal.
		If any litigation, claim, negotiation, audit or other action involving the records has been started before the expiration of the 3-year period, the records shall be retained until completion of the action and resolution of all issues which arise from it, or until the end of the regular 3-year period, whichever is later.
		Public/Private Alliance proposals will be evaluated based upon the criteria expressed in the formal solicitation that will be posted at www.grants.gov Individual USAID Missions or Operating Units may also issue competitive solicitations with a Public/Private Alliance model and the criteria may differ from those noted in the Global Development Alliance Secretariat's announcement.
	www.federalgrantswire.com /global_development_alliance.html (1007 words)

	The Center for the Business of Government: Radio Show Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So the success of the alliances is based on having clarity of purpose; in other words, understanding why we're in it, and why someone else is in it, and what is going to be clear as benefit or gain from that.
		So we've developed many partnerships with them and with other foundations, both established foundations and some of the newer foundations that have come forward in the last 10 or 15 years.
		Storck: Holly, Global Development Alliance is certainly a very innovative new model, and often, such models have a catalytic effect on others.
	www.businessofgovernment.org /main/interviews/bios/holly_wise_frt.asp (5591 words)

	Zambia Private Sector and U.S. Government Partner to Fight HIV/AIDS - United States Embassy Lusaka Zambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Global Development Alliances (GDAs) are new approaches to development in which the U.S. Government leverages public and private funds to address common development challenges.
		These two Global Development Alliances build on the successful “Business Response for Access to Treatment” (BRAT) pilot project, which was funded under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in partnership with Dunavant Zambia and Konkola Copper Mines Ltd. This pilot effort helped over 4000 persons receive counseling and testing.
		Thanks to the two Global Development Alliances and USAID funding, it will now be possible to expand and accelerate HIV Abstinence and Faithfulness prevention programs, voluntary counseling and testing, care, and antiretroviral treatment.
	usembassy.state.gov /zambia/pr032105.html (630 words)

	Economic & Political Development: Information Resources
		UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication.
		The Center for Global Development is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality through policy-oriented research and active engagement on development issues with the policy community and the public.
		Overseas Development Institute, London, UK The Overseas Development Institute is an independent non-governmental centre for development research and a forum for discussion of the problems facing developing countries.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/epd.html (3749 words)

	Foreign Policy Association - Job Board
		Resource flows to the developing world have dramatically changed in the past 30 years; corporations, foundations, universities, and other private actors now play a significant role in the field of development, contributing foreign direct investment, remittances, grants, technical expertise and other forms of assistance to developing countries.
		The Global Development Alliance (GDA) approach is meeting this challenge by combining the strengths of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the resources and capabilities of other prominent development actors.
		Because of the demanding variety and complexity of GDA's mandate, interns have the opportunity to actively participate in the work of the office, gain an integral understanding of USAID as an organization, expand their knowledge and experience in development, as well as interact with some of the most significant players in the field of development.
	www.fpa.org /jobs_contact2423/jobs_contact_show.htm?doc_id=286095 (445 words)

	Partnership for Public Service - Profiles In Public Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As architect and the driving force behind the federal government's Global Development Alliance (GDA), Holly Wise is at the forefront of that effort.
		The GDA is a new approach to foreign aid that mobilizes ideas and resources from the public sector, the private sector and non-governmental organizations to solve complex global development challenges.
		Before assuming leadership of the Global Development Alliance, she served in progressively more responsible and challenging management positions in challenging assignments in Uganda, Kenya, Barbados and the Philippines, and has received numerous awards for excellence in public service.
	www.ourpublicservice.org /staff_name3761/staff_name_show.htm?doc_id=184771 (552 words)

	Weekly Special Report, September 26, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Washington -- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is spending approximately $130 million on 75 regional and country-specific development alliances less than one year after initiating its Global Development Alliance (GDA) program, a USAID official says.
		She added that alliances could also help leverage the 25 percent of flows to developing countries that are in the form of personal and institutional remittances by reducing transaction costs.
		Alliances are formed in areas such as basic education, vocational training, information technology, forestry, water, plant gene banks and small enterprise development, she said.
	www.telecom.net.et /~usemb-et/wwwh3811.htm (427 words)

	KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. -- Socially Responsible Investing and Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CSRwire-- WASHINGTON, DC - The Global Development Alliance (GDA) Secretariat of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced recently the release of a publication detailing several current alliances.
		As Powell explains the establishment of the GDA, “alliances among government, civil society and the private sector multiply the impact of official U.S. development assistance abroad”.
		The GDA was launched in May 2001 to promote public-private alliances as a new business model for USAID.
	www.kld.com /release.cgi?id=2306 (354 words)

	United States Agency for International Development and the Rainforest Alliance to Bring Sustainable Forest and Farm ...
		The Certified Sustainable Products Alliance, developed and funded as part of the USAID Global Development Alliance initiative, is expected to become a showcase development effort in Latin America and beyond.
		The Alliance will achieve results on several critical business, social and environmental fronts including responsible business practice, improved wages and conditions for workers employed in plantation and rural sectors, enhanced participation and income for farmer associations and reduced environmental degradation in production systems.
		The Rainforest Alliance, an international conservation organization, is a leader in developing best management practices for sustainable land use and offers third-party certification and ecolabeling services to forests and farms that are managed in ways that reduce environmental impacts and increase social benefits.
	www.rainforest-alliance.org /news/2004/news92.html (837 words)

	Global Alliance - National Association for the Education of Young Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Partners in the Global Alliance for the Education of Young Children are organizations outside the United States who share NAEYC’s commitment to children and excellence in education.
		The Global Alliance for the Education of Young Children provides an opportunity for early childhood associations from countries throughout the world to distribute materials and share information about programs and services, so that members of the participating organizations will have access to a greater range of early childhood resources.
		If you are an organization interested in joining the Global Alliance for the Education of Young Children, please click here for more information about eligibility and application procedures.
	www.naeyc.org /globalalliance (319 words)

	Global Exchange : Unique alliance out to end slavery in chocolate trade
		This supply-chain alliance in the chocolate industry was presented as a case study in a panel discussion at the 10th annual Conference for Business for Social Responsibility, a three-day event in Miami that ends today.
		Among the goals of the chocolate alliance: By 2005, chocolate and cocoa are to be certified as made without slave labor.
		But even key participants in the effort said that they had no idea how widespread the problem was, that they had been unable to gauge whether their alliance had had any measurable effect and that they believed that observers would be needed for a least a decade to monitor the situation.
	www.globalexchange.org /campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/439.html (715 words)

	Alliance Promotes Safe Drinking Water
		The alliance is designed to develop innovative approaches to ensure the safety of drinking water.
		Alliance members joined forces to offer their respective expertise and resources to better understand the behaviors and motivations for choosing particular technologies for treating household water, to share the knowledge gained, and identify opportunities for scaling up successful efforts to ensure safe drinking water.
		Alliance members belong to the International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage, a global network of more than 20 organizations that recognizes the potential for using low-cost water quality interventions to reduce the risk disease and death.
	www.careusa.org /newsroom/articles/2004/04/04222004_unwaterpr.asp (1216 words)

	USAID, "The Global Development Alliance" , eJournal USA: Economic Perspectives, August 2005
		The Global Development Alliance (GDA) was launched in May 2001 as a new business model for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—one that relies on public-private alliances to multiply the impact of official U.S. development assistance abroad.
		The NetMark Alliance represents a time-limited investment by USAID to reduce the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa by increasing the commercial supply of and public demand for insecticide-treated nets.
		The alliance brings together international and African commercial partners, nonprofits, and ministries of health to build local commercial capacity and meet the demand of those willing and able to pay for bednets, thus enabling limited donor resources to provide for those unable to afford lifesaving nets at any price.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/ites/0805/ijee/usaid.htm (1852 words)

	Global Development Program - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		The foundation's Global Development Program is working with motivated partners to create opportunities for people to lift themselves out of poverty and hunger.
		Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is the first chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, formed to help poor African farmers revitalize agriculture and end hunger and poverty.
		We focus on helping small farmers in the developing world, most of whom are women, by investing in efforts that can help them lift themselves and their families out of hunger and grinding poverty.
	www.gatesfoundation.org /GlobalDevelopment (378 words)

	Global Development Alliance Initiative
		We're pleased to have with us today Dan Runde who is the Director of USAID's Office of Global Alliances, which is a very innovative office within USAID that seeks to build public/private partnerships in the development effort across a wide spectrum of activities.
		It's called GDA, the Global Development Alliance, and it was launched in 2001 and it's our commitment to work more closely with companies, foundations, diaspora groups, faith-based groups and other private donors who are working in the developing world.
		Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa and a large engineering company that's an expert in developing sugar mills came to USAID and said, we think that Mali is well-positioned to be ultimately a net exporter of sugar in the world.
	fpc.state.gov /fpc/64991.htm (4798 words)

	Chevron Press Release - USAID Announces Development Partnership with Chevron in Indonesia
		Short-term training in construction skills, teacher training and community development at a Government of Indonesia and Chevron vocational training facility in nearby Riau province will be provided as well as longer-term education programs focused on computers, electronics, and telecommunication.
		Based on a feasibility study, the alliance may support the rehabilitation or construction of a vocational training center to serve Aceh province in the future.
		The Vocational Training Alliance for Aceh complements the broader USAID $157 million education initiative for Indonesia to improve the quality of basic education throughout the country.
	www.chevron.com /news/press/2005/2005-05-26.asp (614 words)

	USAID Global Development Alliance (GDA) / Collaborative Research / Links / Intellectual property / S&T Issues in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The GDA mobilizes the ideas, efforts and resources of governments, businesses and civil society by forging public-private alliances to stimulate economic growth, develop businesses, address health and environmental issues, and expand access to education and technology.
		In the 1970s, 70% of resource flows from the US to the developing world were from official development assistance and 30% were private.
		Through such alliances, the resources united are as diverse as the alliances themselves, including technology and intellectual property rights, market creation, best practices, policy influence, networks, and expertise in development programs ranging from international trade to biodiversity protection.
	knowledge.cta.int /en/content/view/full/732 (305 words)

	Management Systems International
		The USAID/MSI partnership has worked with the GOSL and other donors to develop a new paradigm for diamond mining, which would empower miners and diggers to achieve greater economic benefit from diamond mining and to have a greater role in managing the diamonds.
		A central priority is developing a favorable environment for a clean diamond trade and for integrating community concerns into the process.
		Assess local developments and consider strategic or tactical revisions that may be necessary to take advantage of emerging opportunities and mitigate risks to the program;
	www.msiworldwide.com /gral/afghan.html (1379 words)

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