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John Riordan is an American banker credited with saving 105 South Vietnamese lives during the Fall of Saigon. He is known as the "Oskar Schindler of the Vietnam War". [1]
USAID and BIFAD have a long history of training foreign students at U.S. institutions of higher education. A total of 1,593 degree-seeking individuals were supported (2016) at institutions around the globe: 48% at U.S. institutions of higher education and another 5% were U.S. citizens working with Feed the Future Innovation Labs.
USAID was subsequently established by the executive order of President John F. Kennedy, who sought to unite several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency. [4] USAID became the first U.S. foreign assistance organization whose primary focus was long-term socioeconomic development.
An initiative focused on African higher education was a collaborative effort linking USAID, HED, the Africa-U.S. Initiative. After launching a request for application in late 2008, HED received more than 250 application from various U.S. higher education institutions for 20 planning grants of $50,000 each.
There was an urgent need for increased communication and behavior change to help support existing health programs, the first of which was USAID's Population Communication Services Project. Other additional early services offered by the CCP included the improvement of family planning through accreditation of public and private health facilities ...
Title V: John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer (FTF) Program—-provides voluntary technical assistance to farmers, farm groups, and agribusinesses. Title VI: Enterprise for the America's Initiative – official debt relief linking Food for Peace and AID debt owed to the United States to the promulgation of structural adjustment and ...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is responsible for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, abuse, and violations of law and to promote economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the operations of USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the United States African Development Foundation, and the Inter-American Foundation.
John Riordan may refer to: John Riordan (mathematician) (1903–1988), American mathematician; John Riordan (banker), American banker, "Oskar Schindler of the Vietnam War" John R. Riordan (born 1943), Canadian biochemist; John Riordan (businessman), Canadian businessman, owner of Riordon Paper Mills and The Toronto Mail (from 1877 to 1895)