MONROVIA, Liberia — U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah announced nearly $142 million in humanitarian projects and grants to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Shah made the announcement after meeting with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia in the capital city of Monrovia. It was the first stop in a week-long […]
West Africa faces the largest Ebola epidemic in history. Every day, in extreme heat and humidity, health care workers are performing life-saving tasks to stop the spread of the virus. They face many obstacles in providing timely care to patients—heat stress caused by Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), lengthy infection control measures that leave no room for […]
Host Nation Perspectives (HNP) awarded two (2) year contract for $2,863,344.59 to provide warehouse and open-air staging and property management services for the purpose of supporting USAID Afghanistan's efforts to reutilize/distribute Foreign Excess Personal Properity (FEPP) in Afghanistan. This contract was solicited by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in May of 2014 and expected to be […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to the tens of thousands of innocent children, women, and men displaced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) assault on Sinjar and surrounding areas of northern Iraq. USAID is deploying humanitarian response experts […]
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) just released a top-level analysis of State Department reconstruction funding in Afghanistan. SIGAR found that State has obligated nearly $4 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction between the beginning of fiscal year 2002 and March 2013, more than two-thirds of which ($2.8 billion, or 69 percent) will go to […]