USAID AND INFRASTRUCTURE

PROGRAMMING FOR DEVELOPMENT

Dr. Kenneth Baum, Senior EconomistActing Division Director for Engineering and Urban

ManagementUSAID/E3July, 2012

WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT?

• JOBS• INCOME• WEALTH

“Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and

facilitiesnecessary for an economy to function.”

Infrastructure Defined

Wikipedia: Oxford Dictionary and Sullivan, Arthur Economics: Principles in Action, 2003

Infrastructure is the second most frequently occurring constraint identified in PFG constraints analyses.

Infrastructure:The Stealth Initiative

Africa1. Benin*2. Burundi3. Ghana4. Kenya*5. Malawi*6. Mali7. Mozambique8. Nigeria*9. Rwanda*10. Senegal*11. Sierra Leone 12. Tanzania**13. The Gambia*14. Uganda*15. Zambia*

Asia1. Bangladesh2. Indonesia3. Philippines

*Denotes a binding constraint. **Denotes a binding constraint under 3 separate analyses.

Infrastructure:Key to Economic Growth

Office & Infrastructure & Engineering

Over 1,300 days of field support in FY11

87% of all travel funded by Missions or other Bureaus

Country Days

Haiti 364Afghanistan 211Ghana 111Sudan 61Pakistan 43Iraq 42Liberia 14Total 642

Technical support to priority countries

Energy

Information and

Communications

Technology

Urban and

Engineering

Services$7.33 million$3 million ESF$8 million – Grand 10 Technical Staff (-1) 9 Technical Staff (-2) 11 Technical Staff (-3)

15 DLI Engineers

542 TDY days 107 TDY days 908 TDY days

Global Climate

Change/Clean Energy;

CPC &

Reconstruction

Feed the Future;

Global Health; Youth

Water & Sanitation;

DRG/Local Governance;

Feed the Future; Global

Climate Change; Global

Health; Youth; CPC &

Reconstruction

$3 million $5.4 million

What are the Primary Agency Priorities?

• Global Climate Change• Feed the Future• Critical Priority Countries (CPCs) – Post Conflict• Humanitarian Assistance – Post Disaster• Global health and HIV/AIDS• Basic Education• Water Resources Management• Science and Technology

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FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010-

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

4,000,000

4,500,000

5,000,000

EG Funding by Program Area

4.7 Economic Opportunity

4.6 Private Sector Competitiveness

4.5 Agriculture

4.4 Infrastructure

4.3 Financial Sector

4.2 Trade and Investment

4.1 Macroeconomic Foundation for Growth

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OBLIGATIONS BY PROGRAM AREA, 2010

3.1 Health -- $5.9B

5.1 Protection, Assistance, and Solutions -- $2.7B

3.2 Education -- $1.13B

4.4 Infrastructure -- $1.07B

2.2 Good Governance -- $1.018B

4.5 Agriculture -- $1.01B

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4.4 INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENTS

• Includes Transport, Energy/Power, and Telecommunications

• Does not include:– Health Facilities– Schools– Potable water and sanitation– Judicial complexes– Irrigation– Other public buildings– Other infrastructure services

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USAID’s Infrastructure Investments

$534.57

$464.49$165.40

$139.19

$139.04

$84.44

$76.09

$76.09

$43.71 $30.14$22.82

$5.03 Haiti

Afghanistan

Pakistan

Rest of Africa

West Bank & Gaza

Sudan

Rest of LAC

Rest of ME

Rest of Asia

Rest of E&E

DCHA

Other

Construction Expenditures FY2010

$1.8 billion in constructionacross all foreign assistance objectives; the Agency spent another $276 million on “soft” investments in key infrastructure sectors

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50,000,000

100,000,000

150,000,000

200,000,000

250,000,000

300,000,000

350,000,000

400,000,000

Technical Assistance & Training

Operations Support &Commodities/Materials

Construction/Rehabilitation

Data source: Operational Plan FY2010

Total$950

million

INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES

• Roads• Bridges• Housing• Potable Water• Solid Waste• Power• Sanitation and Wastewater• Solid Waste• Schools• Health Facilities• Telecommunications• Irrigation• Judicial Complexes• Ports• Cultural Heritage Preservation

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Markets

BEE

Inf rast ructure

Governance

Finance

Knowledge

• Governance• Physical Markets• Finance• Knowledge• Business Enabling

Environment• Infrastructure

INFRASTRUCTURE IDIQs

• Architecture and Engineering IDIQ

– Awarded September 30, 2008/Ends September 29, 2013

– Ceiling of $500 Million

• CLEAN ENERGY CPC/Non CPC IDIQs -- In Procurement

• HABITAT IDIQ– Pre-Solicitation July 2012

• FEDBIZOPPS.gov or www.usaid.gov/business

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PRIMES UNDER THE A&E IDIQ

• AECOM – James Peter

• CDM – Ellis Turner

• MWH – John Velon

• Parsons – Julie Haines/Dave Fulton

• Tetra Tech/ARD – Firouz Rooyani14

COUNTRIES WITH AWARDED TASK ORDERS

• Afghanistan• Egypt• El Salvador• Ethiopia• Georgia• Haiti• Jordan• Liberia• Mozambique• Rwanda • South Africa• Tanzania • Vietnam

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THANK YOU!