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Top USAID official set for Tanzania study tour
2006-02-20 07:10:07
By Guardian Reporter
Jacqueline Schafer, leader of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT), is visiting Tanzania this week to learn more about the country’s dynamic record of economic growth.
According to a statement issued by the USAID in Dar es Salaam, Schafer, one of USAID’s top three technical managers oversees a large portfolio of projects involving agriculture, private sector investment and credit.
The statement adds that she also oversees economic growth, education, energy and information technology, environment and science policy, natural resources management, poverty reduction and women and gender.
Schafer has over 30 years’ experience in environment and natural resources policy and program management in federal and state government.
She is here to learn how to build linkages between Washington and new and on-going projects in East Africa, including Tanzania.
She is touring under the Presidential initiatives in Tanzania to end hunger in Africa and to enhance competitiveness and trade.
During her time in Tanzania, Schafer will meet with USAID’s partners, Tanzania Government officials and representatives from the private sector in Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, and Zanzibar to identify appropriate linkages and potential partners for future activities, says the statement.
According to the USAID/Tanzania Mission Director, Pamela White, the EGAT Bureau works to assure that USAID’s programmes adequately address the challenges of linking producer to markets, developing food, feed and fiber systems, raising agricultural productivity, and ensuring sound management of the natural resource base necessary for sustainable agriculture.
Schafer was also scheduled to attend an EGAT-funded Sustainable Tourism Workshop that opens on Sunday, February 19th at the Ngurdoto Lodge in Arusha.
The workshop will promote effective sustainable tourism by discussing how to identify trends in tourism, avoid pitfalls within the tourism industry, and how to measure successful tourism programmes.
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