USAID Administrator Shah to Host Forum with UK's Mitchell

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Please join USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah and Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development at the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) on September 23, 2011. The two leaders will lead a lively discussion of how their agencies are approaching reform.

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DATE: Friday, September 23, 2011

TIME: Noon - 1 p.m.

WHERE:
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Amphitheater
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004

Shah and Mitchell will discuss the recently released USAID Policy Framework 2011-2015, which details USAID's core development priorities and lays out the agenda for responding to the most critical development challenges of the future.

Mitchell will share the Coalition Government's reform agenda for DFID and describe how these efforts are being carried out across the organization. DFID has championed new standards for aid effectiveness and transparency, and reinvigorated efforts to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.

Members of the news media are encouraged to RSVP to: [email protected].

For more information about USAID and its programs, please visit www.usaid.gov

Press Contact: USAID Press Office
Telephone: +1.202.712.4320
Email: [email protected]

The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, have provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for nearly 50 years.

SOURCE U.S. Agency for International Development

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