US Agency for International Development - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Agency for International Development Index / Organizations Transcripts Tina Tchen ...global work. And I could see that USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...I could see that USAID [United States Agency for International Development ] gave a lot of support to it. And I'... ...And what I knew at the time was our USAID and US investment in girls' educatio... ...Gayle Smith had not yet moved over to USAID , but Gayle was in the spot tha... ...There's a longstanding clause in the USAID congressional mandate that this mone... ...of her baby was to invest in this. And USAID sort of felt hamstrung about that. An... ...these interagency groups, meetings of USAID and State Department and interestingl... ...filmed that. And in the meeting, what USAID decided to do on its own was start ... ...appropriations. And a lot of stuff from USAID . And then I learned remarkably... ...since we were going to use so much of USAID 's money, we should just use thei... ...at the end it's like, “Look, we need USAID to be all in [laughs] on this effort... ...So that commitments to the projects and USAID would last for three years. So we kne... ...do that. That's just amazing. And then USAID did a lot of work in Malawi an... ...methods in Malawi and Tanzania. And the USAID team, Stephenie Foster from the Stat... ...face and I can't remember her name at USAID —really went to Tanzania and Malawi... ...that would become programming for USAID . And then I think they also raise... ...side was an interagency effort with USAID , and the State Department, and others... ...and others. We made sure, in USAID , there was three-year programming an... ...the State Department to the table, and USAID to the table, and others, to reall... Show more... Brian Bond ...had the Global Equality Fund, and USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...Equality Fund, and USAID [United States Agency for International Development ] had the [LGBTI] Global Developmen... ...partnership that took five million of USAID money and grew it to twenty-eigh... 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 Education Education go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Immigration Immigration