 | USAID pledges to spend $922m by 2016
14 January, 2012
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide $922 million to Bangladesh over the next five years to help the country address food security, health and global climate change.
The health sector will receive the largest assistance of $312 million, while USAID will spend $269 million for food security, $210 million for humanitarian assistance, $66 million for strengthening democracy and governance and $63 million for climate change.
USAID Bangladesh Mission Director Richard Greene unveiled the agency's new five-year strategy from 2011 to 2016 for the nation at an event at Radisson Hotel in Dhaka yesterday.
The US government's development agency organised the event to celebrate its 50 years of global assistance and 40 years with Bangladesh.
"Bangladesh has made tremendous success in promoting child health and family planning and became one of a few countries who have achieved some of the millennium development goals," Greene said. "USAID has successes in marketing family planning products at affordable prices."
"Our new programmes aim to support Bangladesh to achieve the middle-income country status," he said.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said the relationship between Bangladesh and USAID is pretty old. He also paid tributes to the US leaders who contributed to setting up USAID for undertaking development projects in the world as well as in Bangladesh.
Release link:http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=218157
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