The nine principles of reconstruction and development

Parameters,  Autumn, 2005  by Andrew S. Natsios

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(26.) US Agency for International Development, "Afghanistan Transition Initiative: Media," February 2005, http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/afghanistan/ briefer_oti_media_0205.pdf.

(27.) Quoted in Victoria Burnett, "Trendy Radio Station Strikes Chord with Youth, Financial Times, 7 September 2004.

(28.) US Agency for International Development, "Drug Eradication Program in Afghanistan," 22 October 2004, http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/afghanistan/ drugeradication.html.

(29.) International Monetary Fund, Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission, 18 May 2005, http://www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2005/051805.htm. Fighting corruption is such a priority for the agency that it released a comprehensive anti-corruption strategy at the beginning of 2005 reflecting five years of discussion and analysis. See US Agency for International Development, "Anti-corruption Strategy," January 2005, http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/ democracy_and_governance/publications/pdfs/ac_strategy_final.pdf.

(30.) US Agency for International Development, "USAID Fact Sheet, Phase I Kabul-Kandahar Highway," 14 December 2003, http://www.usaid.gov/press/factsheets/2003/fs031214.html.

Andrew S. Natsios (Lieutenant Colonel, USAR Ret.) is Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). President Bush also has appointed him Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan. Natsios served previously at USAID as director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from 1989 to 1991, and then as assistant administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance from 1991 to 1993. He is the author of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (CSIS, 1997), and The Great North Korean Famine (US Institute of Peace, 2001). He retired from the US Army Reserve in 1995 after 23 years of service, and he is a veteran of the Gulf War.

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