US Agency for International Development - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Agency for International Development Index / Organizations Transcripts Akram Dweikat ...NGOs, so she did a lot of work for the USAID projects or Save the Children or a... ...Jabal An-Nar. Interesting. And it's a USAID -funded, or, in part funded with—som... ...programs, I understand, are funded by USAID . Yes, some of the programs, the... ...had programs that were funded by the USAID . This is where another intersectio... ...for me came. This is how the USAID came in, in another way than my mom'... ...places like Jabal An-Nar think about USAID ? You mentioned earlier the kind o... ...the American people, but, of course, USAID kind of sits in the middle. What's th... ...And especially for, not just the USAID , the UNRWA [United Nations Relief an... Show more... Hillary Clinton ...budget of both the State Department and USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...Department and USAID [United States Agency for International Development ], because I also took USAID ver... ...Development], because I also took USAID very seriously. I think we made rea... ...historically, the State Department and USAID had submitted separate budgets. Whe... ...would come in with money for refugees. USAID would come in for money with refugees... ...for the State Department and USAID to get their arms around because the... ...underlying legislation for State and USAID . It gets totally boxed into all kind... ...the State Department, partnering with USAID . My chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, wa... ...The Bush team thought that USAID was slow, and cumbersome, an... ...relationship you had with Raj Shah at USAID , and the extent to which that was abl... ...ongoing process. I recommended Raj for USAID because, again, going back to m... ...with President Obama, I viewed USAID as my responsibility, since it i... ...primarily driven out of State and USAID , but obviously, Agriculture wa... ...was, I recommended that he become the USAID administrator. And it was a grea... ...worked incredibly hard to try to pull USAID into the future, where we wanted t... ...you Americans.” And I thought, “Wow, USAID , what did we do? How did we do this?... ...civil society groups, and targeting of USAID , for example? I mean, we talke... ...because, you know, we did a lot through USAID , through grants to nongovernmenta... ...But there were people at State and USAID who wondered why I wanted to go to th... ...to go to the slums of Jakarta to see a USAID water program. Why couldn't I just rea... ...they did in our case was to imprison a USAID contractor. [Laughs] So that stoppe... Show more... Michael Froman ...were about ten of us—from State, USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...of us—from State, USAID [United States Agency for International Development ], Commerce, Treasury, OPE... ...a program like Power Africa with USAID —I don't know if OPEC was involved i... Jerome Sauvage ...to them. People like Jon Brause, USAID [US Agency for Internationa... ...them. People like Jon Brause, USAID [ US Agency for International Development ], who was very committed to doin... ...were doing. That is what struck me. USAID had a very good program; it wa... ...why that the case? I think USAID at the time seemed—mostly it wa... ...USAID at the time seemed—mostly it was USAID —was, I think, a little bit beate... Wendy Sherman ...The secretary was very committed to USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...very committed to USAID [United States Agency for International Development ] and to development aid. No one coul... Azizullah Royesh ...receive even a single coin from the USAID , from JCORE, from these internationa... Judy Heumann ...time. She's a lawyer. She's now over at USAID [US Agency for Internationa... ...a lawyer. She's now over at USAID [ US Agency for International Development ]. We were a really good team. I go... Huma Abedin ...But she also talks about working for a USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...working for a USAID [United States Agency for International Development ] -funded program on democratization... Esther Brimmer ...issues, and Raj Shah was going to head USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...was going to head USAID [United States Agency for International Development ]. So we were a panel of peopl... ...each other. That was important. Also, USAID was important as well, because ther... ...multilateral work which come through USAID . So those were particularly importan... ...also on the delegation was someone from USAID . And so you literally had th... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Public Health Public Health go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Agriculture Agriculture