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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (11/7/05) Contact Information: NEW AGREEMENT EXPANDS THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL
DEVELOPMENT Washington, DC (November 7, 2005) – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the nation’s six higher education presidential associations signed a new five-year Leader-with-Associates Agreement to support a worldwide program in higher education for global development. The value of the new Leader Agreement is estimated at more than $50 million. There is no ceiling on Associate Agreements with USAID Missions or other funders. The Higher Education for Development (HED) Program is sponsored by USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, Office of Education. The agreement provides USAID Bureaus and Missions the opportunity to support additional, country-specific program activities. The six higher education associations are the American Council on Education (ACE), the Association of American Universities (AAU), the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). The HED program succeeds the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development (ALO), which awarded funding to more than 250 institutional partnerships in more than 60 countries and sponsored significant policy roundtables between 1998 and 2005. The new HED program will continue to promote partnerships between higher education institutions in the United States and abroad for global social and economic development through human and institutional capacity building. Said ALO Executive Director, Christine Morfit, “We intend to build on the success of ALO by engaging the talent of the higher education community to develop new and innovative programs designed to be flexible and responsive to changing development needs.” New programs under the agreement include: an annual program of awards to encourage a broad diversity of U.S. applicants who will propose their own programs in any USAID presence country; an annual program focusing on capacity building in higher education institutions in developing countries; new initiatives that support collaboration with government agencies, donors and foundations other than USAID; technical and advisory services that include planning grants to U.S. institutions for assistance to USAID; and an expanded program of roundtables to allow for discussion on key development issues. The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years. For more information on USAID, visit: http://www.usaid.gov. The HED program engages the resources of higher education institutions
in the United States and abroad for global social and economic development
through human and institutional capacity building. HED assists the nation’s
six major higher education associations and their members in partnering
with USAID, as well as other development agencies and donor organizations.
For more information about HED, please visit http://www.HEDprogram.org. ###
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