[Federal Register: January 26, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 16)]
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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 
Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foregin Aid; Notice of Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby 
given of a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid 
(ACVFA).
    Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 (8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.).
    Location: J.W. Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20004.
    The meeting's keynote address will outline some of the 
Administrator's major priorities, including the new fragile states 
policy and anticorruption strategy.
    Following a presentation on USAID's new anticorruption strategy by 
Barbara Turner, Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Policy 
and Program Coordination, John Sullivan from the Center for 
International Private Enterprise (ACVFA member) will moderate a panel. 
Participants will include Nancy Boswell from Transparency 
International, Daniel Kaufman from the World Bank Institute, and Neil 
Levine from USAID's Office of Democracy and Governance. Key mandates of 
the new strategy include broader efforts to tackle the economic and 
political conditions that facilitate grand corruption and integrating 
anticorruption objectives and activities more carefully into all of the 
Agency's development work.
    After lunch, Joanne Giordano, Senior Advisor to the Administrator, 
John Gardner, General Counsel, USAID, and John Niemeyer, Attorney 
Advisor, Office of the General Counsel, will provide an overview of the 
proposed marking policy and graphic standards followed by an 
opportunity for questions and comments.
    Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions of the 
speakers and participate in the discussion.
    The meeting is free and open to the public. Persons wishing to 
attend the meeting can register online at http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/acvfa
 or e-mail their name to barbara@websterconsulting.com.

    Dated: January 21, 2005.
Jocelyn M. Rowe,
Executive Director, Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid 
(ACVFA), U.S. Agency for International Development.
[FR Doc. 05-1450 Filed 1-25-05; 8:45 am]

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