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>Rajiv J. Shah is President of The Rockefeller Foundation.

>- 2009 - appointed USAID Administrator by President Obama - unanimously confirmed Senate

Watch the water.

U.S. Water and Development Strategy Launched

On May 21, 2013, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle joined USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. to launch the U.S. Government’s first Water and Development Strategy.

The Strategy places an increased priority on water issues within USAID’s development agenda, calls for water programming to focus on promoting health and food security, and emphasizes the importance of partnerships, innovations, and sustainability.

Speakers included Senator Dick Durbin, Senator Chris Coons, Representative Earl Blumenauer, Representative Ted Poe, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, and USAID Global Water Coordinator Christian Holmes.

On March 21, 2013, seven winners were announced in the USAID Development Innovation Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnership WASH For Life’s open competition for development ideas.

The winners are ...

the Rand Corporation, which will make water filters accessible to low income groups through mobile payments;

and Kickstarter International, which is testing financing models to make shallow water irrigation pumps more accessible.

https://www.usaid.gov/node/40771