21. USAID: Earthquake And Tsunami Reconstruction President Bush has pledged $950 million in longterm us support to help the and experience with government officials, private industries and ngos in http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/tsunami/

Home Background Relief Fact Sheets USAID/Indonesia ... Reconstruction Update #25 (PDF) Countries: Sectors: Get Adobe Reader Sign up to receive Tsunami Relief updates by email Email: First Name: Last Name: Contract and Grant Solicitations Frequently-Asked Questions U.S. Small Businesses: Creating Opportunities with USAID Get Acrobat Reader... ... Asia and the Near East USAID Rebuilds Lives After the Tsunami Update - September 14, 2005 Latest News USAID Announces Launch of Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System Program USAID Publication: Tsunami Relief In December 2004, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami hit Asia and Africa, devastating many coastal areas. Almost 200,000 people in eight countries perished in a few hours, and over 100,000 are still missing. Many more had their homes and livelihoods swept away. The coastal areas of Indonesia and Sri Lanka and two Indian island chains bore the brunt of the calamity. They will require significant repair and reconstruction. In response to a Presidential request, Congress appropriated $907.3 million in long term U.S. support to help the tsunami victims rebuild their lives. $656 million was allocated for USAID’s Tsunami Recovery and Reconstruction Fund, with $25 million committed to Avian Flu. USAID's historic commitment to these countries, 40 years of expertise with disaster assistance, and solid working relationships with the region's governments meant we were able to respond immediately, providing life-saving food, water, medical care and shelter.

22. USAID/El Salvador - Earthquake Reconstruction: Emergency Operations Emergency Operations, us government Response. Temporary Housing, In partnership with six us ngos, usAID provided nearly $7.5 million for the http://www.usaid.gov/sv/er/eremer.htm

USAID El Salvador Program Overview Economic Growth and Education Democracy and Governance ... USAID El Salvador Overview of Damages Emergency Operations: US Government Response ... Links Earthquake Reconstruction Emergency Operations: US Government Response The United States Government responded with over $20 million in emergency relief assistance, including $12.8 million from the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA Temporary Housing In partnership with six U.S. NGOs, USAID provided nearly $7.5 million for the construction of emergency shelters for 23,000 poor families, 33 temporary schools, and 12 temporary health facilities. The emergency shelters were in place prior to the onset of the rainy season that began in May. Nearly $5 million in emergency supplies and commodities were provided, including rice, beans, water tanks, water jugs, mattresses and blankets. In all, 1,750 metric tons of food were delivered. Temporary Classrooms The DOD Mobil Hospital in Santa Tecla The U.S. Military donated, transported and

23. US NGOs To Powell On Debt-free East Timor Subject us ngos to Powell on Debtfree East Timor We strongly believe that the us government has a moral obligation to ensure that East Timor s http://www.etan.org/et2002b/april/21-27/22usngos.htm

Home Background ETAN/US News ... Images Search Subject: US NGOs to Powell on Debt-free East Timor PO Box 15774 Washington, DC 20003-0774 22 April 2002 Secretary Colin L. Powell U.S. Department of State 2201 'C' Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Powell: We urgently appeal to you to support the most generous grant possible without restrictive macroeconomic conditions at the May 14 and 15 pledging conference in East Timor. We strongly encourage you to work with other donor governments and international financial institutions (IFIs) to make sure that East Timor's expected financing gap is covered in its entirety. East Timor's call to fund its financing gap comes on the heels of President Bush's recently stated commitment to eradicating poverty worldwide and efforts by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and others to make sure that grants form a large portion of international assistance to poor countries. Pledging to fund 25% of the gap would be consistent with recent positions taken by the Administration and would signal the sincerity of U.S. intentions to the world. As you likely know, the East Timorese government is expecting a $154 to $184 million shortfall in its already lean recurrent and development budgets over the first three years of independence. While less than the Administration spends on one F-22 fighter plane, for a small country like East Timor this sum could stand in the way of a promising beginning as the world's newest nation. Due to reductions in peacekeeping and other UN operations in East Timor, the U.S. will be saving substantial sums, a portion of which could be pledged in May.

24. Environmental Services, Environmental Consulting In Washington State Provides access to information on government agencies, services, consultants, ngos, and events in this us state. http://www.esdwa.com/

The Environmental Services Directory for Washington State is a business-to-business directory of environmental services, products, and information sources available in Washington State. First published in 1990, it became part of the Washington State Department of Ecology (WDOE) technical assistance program in 1996. Today it is the most widely distributed and used directory of its type in the United States. The directory lists more than 500 companies, organizations and individuals in more than 100 categories. Environmental services, environmental consultants, environmental testing agencies, and environmental companies of all sorts are listed. Categories include air and water quality, environmental testing services, solid waste, hazardous waste management, recycling, soil and groundwater remediation, technology development, education and training, health and safety, pollution control, emergency response and natural resource management. Also included are government environmental agencies, toll-free hot lines, a glossary of terms and abbreviations, and environmental industry meeting and event schedules. The directory is used by environmental consultants, engineers, manufacturers, developers, marine operators, port authorities, remediation contractors, spill responders and other segments of the business community as well as government officials to locate needed environmental services and products. Online users can easily and quickly search for these services, products and information sources using the menus displayed in the left-hand sidebar on this and all other ESDWA Web site pages.

25. US NGOs Write Indonesian President On Munir us ngos Write Indonesian President on Murder of Human Rights Activist Munir That the Indonesian government, under your leadership, http://www.etan.org/news/2004/12munir.htm

U.S. NGOs Write Indonesian President on Murder of Human Rights Activist Munir Office of the President Istana Merdeka Jakarta 10110 Indonesia via fax: (202) 775-5365 e-mail presiden@ri.go.id December 3, 2004 Dear President Yudhoyono: It with sincere regret that as we congratulate you as the first popularly elected President of Indonesia we must also raise as an extremely urgent matter the assassination of our friend and colleague Munir. Among those Indonesians working to promote respect for human rights and democracy, no Indonesian was held in greater regard within Indonesia and around the world. As great as was the shock of his unexpected death, subsequent confirmation by competent Dutch authorities that Munir was murdered has overwhelmed his many admirers around the world. Mr. President, we deeply appreciate your stated desire to ensure that the perpetrators of this criminal act are apprehended and fully prosecuted. As you are aware, the international community has been consistent and unanimous in its criticism of the Indonesian Government for its failure, for many years, to ensure justice in the case of many grave human rights abuses. We recall with sadness and outrage the torture and murder in the year 2000 of another respected human rights advocate, Jafar Siddiq Hamzah. Jafar's murder investigation was flawed for many reasons, including a f ilure to share the full autopsy report with his family and investigation techniques that alienated his friends and family. We note with great concern that Jafar's murderers remain at large.

26. AEGiS-Reuters US NGOs Attacks Bush Foreign Assistance Policy us ngos Attacks Bush Foreign Assistance Policy The policy paper said us government resources for foreign aid were fragmented, particularly in Iraq and http://www.aegis.com/news/re/2003/RE031034.html

Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2003. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. U.S. NGOs Attacks Bush Foreign Assistance Policy Reuters NewMedia - Friday, October 31, 2003 Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest alliance of U.S.-based international aid groups called Friday for a drastic overhaul of the Bush administration's foreign assistance policy, which they said was incoherent, politicized and lacking coordination. InterAction, which represents 160 groups doing overseas relief work, was scathing in its criticism, particularly of the U.S. government's tendency to view foreign assistance "through a national security lens" since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "The administration has increasingly turned its attention to development assistance as a tool of the war on terrorism," InterAction said in a policy paper. InterAction represents a broad range of groups with vastly different political views, religious beliefs and goals. Oxfam, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision, Refugees International and MercyCorps are among the members. "InterAction ... calls for a comprehensive review of U.S. foreign assistance programs, which we think is long overdue," said Mary McClymont, CEO of InterAction.

27. Will NGOs Save Ukraine? In the minds of many us government officials, the future of Central and Eastern How can ngos be expected to function when the government is fragmented, http://www.civilsoc.org/resource/ukraingo.htm

The Ukrainian Weekly #35, August 31, 1997 The Ukrainian Weekly Will NGOs save Ukraine? by Myron B. Kuropas In the minds of many U.S. government officials, the future of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) depends on the ability of the people to organize themselves into non-governmental organizations or NGOs. NGOs are private associations, federations, unions, societies, and groups not founded or funded by the government. When it comes to servicing the poor, providing low cost services, building grass-roots organizations, and adapting or creating innovative programs to meet local needs, it is clear that in many instances, NGOs can often accomplish more than government agencies. Old-line NGOs in our community are the Ukrainian National Association and the Selfreliance Federal Credit Unions. Voluntarism is as American as apple pie. It is a unique American way of getting things done, an integral part of our civil society. Alexis de Tocqueville noticed this as early as 1832 and wrote about it in Democracy in America, his classic critique of life in the United States. "Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions, constantly form associations," he wrote. "They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kinds ­ religious, moral, serious, futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive. The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books to send missionaries to the antipodes; they found in this manner hospitals, prisons, or schools. If it be proposed to inculcate some truth, or to foster some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form a society."

28. PAI: Resources: Global Gag Rule Guide - Introduction government sources without risking their eligibility to receive us The only requirement imposed on us ngos by the gag rule restrictions is the http://www.populationaction.org/resources/publications/globalgagrule/

Resources Home Fact Sheets Recent Publications Publications Library ... Global Gag Rule: History and Resource Library Introduction O n January 22, 2001—his second day in office and the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion—President George W. Bush announced the reinstatement of the restrictions on overseas health care organizations in effect during the mid-1980s and early 1990s, commonly known then as the “Mexico City Policy." The policy reversal has potentially serious ramifications for the future of U.S. support for international family planning and reproductive health programs around the world. Now referred to by family planning supporters as the global gag rule , the restrictions prohibit U.S. assistance for family planning from being provided to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that use funding from any other source to perform abortion in cases other than a threat to the life of the woman, rape, or incest; to provide counseling and referral for abortion; or to lobby to make abortion legal or more available in their own country. U.S. NGOs can continue to perform, counsel, refer, or advocate on abortion with funds from non-U.S. government sources without risking their eligibility to receive U.S. family planning assistance.

29. Reuters AlertNet - U.S. NGOs Hail Success In Safeguarding Independence You are here Homepage us ngos hail success in safeguarding independence biggest alliance of ngos expressed alarm at what they saw as government http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/108492935415.htm

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30. Reuters AlertNet - CONGO Government Disburses US $1.9 Million For one billion francs CFA (us $1.9 million) to local ngos for road maintenance. The government hopes some 200 ngos would engage 10000 unemployed rural http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/cff34bcb2369992ee5d2e9257698b833.h

31. Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Conference Draft Tool Matrix, International Habitat Develop MOU with Private Landowners, government, and ngos. From United States Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us. http://www.fws.gov/international/whc/matrixhabmou.htm

Tool Matrix Contributors Lack of Knowledge Monitoring Inventory of Important Sites Capacity Building and Training Legislation to Foster Conservation Habitat Map Sites for Each Country Protection of Smaller Areas Develop MOU with Private Landowners, Government, and NGOs Establish Incentives for Private Landowners Public Awareness: Program on Conservation and Sustainable Use Education Programs That Embrace Local Wildlife Electronic Information Exchange Administration: Develop Regional Associations for Wildlife Agencies to Share Information Support to Implement Administration/Training of Personnel Regional Bird Banding Center Coordination/Partnerships: Establish Center for Information Sharing National Plan for Migratory Species Conservation Joint Planning of Activities Under International Conventions Threats: Land Use Planning and Monitoring Involvement in Communities Acquisition of More Habitat Collaboration on Species with Expanding Ranges and Behaving as Invasives HABITAT: DEVELOP MOU WITH PRIVATE LANDOWNERS, GOVERNMENT, AND NGO'S Priority Needs List and Tools Matrix II. Habitat

32. Letter To Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Arizona) From Five US NGOs Regarding Jim Kolbe (RArizona) from five us ngos regarding alternative development While usAID, various Colombian government agencies, the Colombian ngos and the http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/02060701.htm

CIP Home About Us Publications Press Room ... Staff Last Updated: Letter to Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Arizona) from five U.S. NGOs regarding alternative development, June 7, 2002 Representative Jim Kolbe Chairman Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee US House of Representatives H-150 Capitol Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Kolbe, In the debate over the FY2002 foreign operations appropriations bill, you strongly supported maintaining a balanced aid package for Colombia. In particular, you called for improved delivery of the alternative development aid to help small farmers make the transition from coca and poppy production to legal crops. As the House considers the FY2003 appropriations bill, we are writing to ask for your continued strong support for alternative development programs. We firmly believe that the most effective as well as humane drug policy includes assistance to small farmers to switch to legal crops. The United States promised such assistance as part of Plan Colombia. We ask you to ensure that the United States keep its promises to Colombian small farmers who are committed to eradicating illicit crops. Colombia's small farmers have repeatedly signaled their willingness to eradicate illegal crops in exchange for development assistance. While it may be true that no legal crop offers the same level of profit, farmers themselves assert another compelling reason to change crops: security. Many farmers recognize that coca and poppy "bring violence" - the guerrillas and paramilitaries who fight to control and tax the lucrative drug trade.

33. The Uribe Government And NGOs The Uribe government and ngos. September 8, 2003 Thirteen us ngos issue a letter condemning the La Gabarra massacre and reiterating concerns about http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/ngos.htm

CIP Home About Us Publications Press Room ... Staff Last Updated: Current News Featured Issues The Uribe government and NGOs September 8, 2003 Eighty Colombian non-governmental organizations release a document, El Embrujo Autoritario ("The Authoritarian Curse") criticizing the performance of President Álvaro Uribe and his thirteen-month-old government. Link the text of El Embrujo Autoritario Uribe calls human rights groups, among other things, "spokesmen for terrorism" and "politickers of terrorism." He challenges them to "take off their masks ... and drop this cowardice of hiding their ideas behind human rights." Uribe's speech distinguishes between serious human rights groups and "politickers," but fails to explain how he makes this distinction. Text of Uribe's speech ( While some of Uribe's advisors and supporters had faced criticism for making similar unsubstantiated and dangerous statements, Uribe himself had avoided using such language during his campaign and during his first year in office. In fact, his government's "Democratic Security" document, released in June 2003, emphasizes the need to "protect opposition political leaders and dissidents, thereby securing the democratic framework and possibilities for citizen participation." A July 2003 Defense Ministry directive instructs members of the security forces "to abstain from making unfounded declarations that could threaten the safety of union leaders or human rights defenders."

34. Bush To NGOs: Watch Your Mouths usAID told several ngos that have been awarded humanitarian contracts that The us government is usually described as unilateralist, but I don t think http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Country/usango.htm

Bush to NGOs: Watch your mouths For aid workers, there are even more strings attached to U.S. dollars. USAID told several NGOs that have been awarded humanitarian contracts that they cannot speak to the media all requests from reporters must go through Washington. Mary McClymont, CEO of InterAction, calls the demands "unprecedented," and says, "It looks like the NGOs aren't independent and can't speak for themselves about what they see and think." By Naomi Klein The Bush administration has found its next target for pre-emptive war, but it's not Iran, Syria or North Korea not yet, anyway. Before launching any new foreign adventures, the Bush gang has some homeland housekeeping to take care of: It is going to sweep up those pesky non-governmental organizations that are helping to turn world opinion against U.S. bombs and brands. The war on NGOs is being fought on two clear fronts. One buys the silence and complicity of mainstream humanitarian and religious groups by offering lucrative reconstruction contracts. The other marginalizes and criminalizes more independent-minded NGOs by claiming that their work is a threat to democracy. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is in charge of handing out the carrots, while the American Enterprise Institute, the most powerful think tank in Washington, D.C., is wielding the sticks.

35. Philippine NGOs Threatened By Government Over Stance On TVI press articleand response on threats by philippine government to ngos including Community members frequently tell us that they are not seeing the http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press614.htm

Defensor to international mining foes: Back off, or else... 27 April 2005 By Blanche Rivera, Inquirer News Service (Philippine Daily Inquirer) Back off or you'll be arrested. This was the warning issued Monday by Environment Secretary Michael Defensor to international anti-mining advocates after meeting with tribal elders from Mindanao who claimed that they were being used by foreign groups in their anti-mining campaign. "They have no right to meddle in the affairs of the country. They should respect the policies of the Philippines, especially the economic policy to do mining," Defensor said in a press conference at the central office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Monday night. Defensor noted that international non-government organizations were becoming invasive in their efforts to rally support against mining activities not only in the Philippines but worldwide. "I don't mind that they have an advocacy, but for them to agitate, finance people (to go against mining), that's a different thing... I can go to the point of having them arrested if we have proof that they are directly agitating communities," Defensor said.

36. Gateway To Medical Information At The National Library Of Medicine: Global AIDS us based ngos made recommendations to the us government on key areas the us us ngos will work to share the experience of working with our government http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/robot_pages/MeetingAbstracts/aids/IAS02/GWAIDS0017783

Gateway to the National Library of Medicine Try a search in the search box above - The NLM Gateway searches multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The resources the Gateway searches include consumer health information, journal citations, the NLM library catalogue, and meeting abstracts. Global AIDS Policy: The role of US NGOs. Partlow MC, Dillon F. Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. TuPeG5558. non-governmental organization, Washington, DC, United States Publication Types: Meeting Abstracts Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Public Policy HIV Infections United Nations Tuberculosis Organizations Health Planning Guidelines Congresses United States UI: GWAIDS0017783 From Meeting Abstracts

37. Donors Shift More Aid To NGOs The Tanzanian government condemns what it terms briefcase ngos, saying it will There is just no comparison between us ngos and most governments. http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/subjindx/131ngo.htm

From Africa Recovery, Vol.13#1 (June 1999), page 6 Donors shift more aid to NGOs But cooperation between governments and NGOs is critical for greater effectiveness By Sam Chege A major shift in funding development in Africa, already under way for several years, is accelerating. In February US Ambassador to Kenya Prudence Bushnell announced her government would now channel most of its development aid in Africa estimated at $711.3 mn this year through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), rather than governments. A public affairs officer in the Africa Bureau at the State Department, Mr. Louis Segsvary, later explained that Ambassador Bushnell's views reflected a US policy, adopted in 1992, of working more closely with NGOs in situations where governments are widely seen as corrupt. By 1996, the US was already channeling more than 30 per cent of its aid through NGOs. The US stance is being followed, to varying degrees, by other major donors. Britain and Germany, whose combined aid to sub-Saharan Africa totaled $2.5 bn in 1996-97, have also been urging African governments to eradicate corruption or face cuts in aid. France, which in 1996-97 gave more than $2.6 bn (making it the biggest single donor to sub-Saharan Africa), recently said it was overhauling its bilateral aid to make it more efficient and transparent. Less than two months after the announcement by Ambassador Bushnell, Mr. Jelte van Wiueren, the cultural attache in the Dutch embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, told journalists that his government, which spent $835 mn in development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa in 1996-97, will also decrease direct aid to governments and give more to NGOs.

38. The New Yorker: Fact The us hoped to hold the election before the transfer of sovereignty, The government consultant said that while the ngos had deployed most of the poll http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact

search: GET OUT THE VOTE by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Issue of 2005-07-25 Posted 2005-07-18 sciri In a second memo, Diamond noted that sciri Under federal law, a finding must be submitted to the House and Senate intelligence committees or, in exceptional cases, only to the intelligence committee chairs and ranking members and the Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress. At least one Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, strongly protested any interference in the Iraqi election. (An account of the dispute was published in Time The methods and the scope of the covert effort have been hard to discern. The current and former military and intelligence officials who spoke to me about the election operation were unable, or unwilling, to give precise details about who did what and where on Election Day. These sources said they heard reports of voter intimidation, ballot stuffing, bribery, and the falsification of returns, but the circumstances, and the extent of direct American involvement, could not be confirmed. Some of the Americans working with the Administration on Iraq assumed that, once the Presidential election was over, Bush would delay the vote until security improved and more Sunnis could be brought in. In a

39. NGO Forum News us ngos stressed that although the us government did not appear to want to address the issue of reparations, the us NGO community was resolute in http://www.racism.org.za/NGOFORUM_nav_news.htm

View The New Updated Photo Gallery Delegates having their say ... Racisme/Système des castes institutionalisé RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE The religious intolerance commission discussed issues concerning respect for individual rights that would promote human dignity and combat racism. Most speakers encouraged governments, NGOs and religious leaders to take responsibility for discrimination against any form of religion. Every individual has the right to freedom of religion without any being discriminated against. The commission encouraged NGOs and the United Nations to encourage anti-discrimination amongst the people of all religions to combat and eradicate racism and religious intolerance. Trafficking The Thematic Commission on Trafficking discussed the implications of the illegal trafficking of women and children and how factors such as poverty, lack of access to labour markets and education and an increasing demand contribute to the trafficking issue.

40. What Should We Do About The United States? - CitNet A Statement by us ngos at the Fourth Preparatory Meeting  If the current government of the United States will not demonstrate this leadership, http://www.citnet.org/files/USNGOStatement-6Jun02.aspx

Home Leadership for Sustainability News Projects ... Contact Us What Should We Do About the United States? A Statement by US NGOs at the Fourth Preparatory Meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development Bali, June 6, 2002 Some say it was a joke; but for most NGOs and many delegates to the Fourth Preparatory Meeting of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Chairman Emil Salim's question "what should we do about the United States?" is no joke. ‚  Most US-based NGOs, environmentalists, consumer advocates, women, youth, community leaders and other public interest organizations here in Bali to promote sustainable development are frustrated and embarrassed with the actions and attitudes of our government. ‚  Instead of representing our interests and concerns, we find our current government defending the interests and agenda of big business. Where is the "turning point?"

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