USAID Helps Fund the Fight.
As a relatively poor and underdeveloped country, Indonesia relies on foreign aid to help the indigenous population attain quality human services while maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Your support of the following U.S. Foreign Policy initiatives will help keep the funding flowing into the land of the orangutans.
About USAID
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. USAID takes an integrated approach to natural resource management while advancing U.S. foreign policy objectives. In underdeveloped nations, it supports:
- Economic growth, agriculture and trade
- Global health
- Democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance
USAID in Indonesia
Aid for Orangutans
From 2008-2010, an $8 million program from USAID in Borneo and Sumatra will:
- Reduce the level of threat to select orangutan populations.
- Develop strategies that garner support from a multi-stakeholder constituency.
- Establish networks to support improved law enforcement and conservation management.
- Set up sustainable financing schemes for long-term conservation at the sites.
In keeping with the scientific guidance that efforts with the highest conservation value are those protecting the habitat of populations in the wild, this program will not support orangutan rehabilitation, re-introductions or translocation efforts.
To learn more, download the program fact sheet (PDF):
Orangutan Conservation Services Program (OCSP)
From 2005-2008, $2.5 million each year was committed specifically to Orangutan habitat conservation:
Download USAID Human Services Budget (PDF) >
Download USAID Healthy Ecosystems Budget (PDF) >
Aid for Indigenous People
Through Strategic Grant Object Agreements (SOGA) 497-019, 497-022, 497-012, USAID is funding work to provide higher quality basic humans services in Indonesia at the local level by:
- Improving the quality of basic education.
- Improving basic human services (health, water, etc.).
- Assisting in effective democratic and decentralized governments.
- Developing effective systems of economic governance to increase trade and drive new types of jobs.
- Focusing on key threats to biodiversity values, targeting the protection of critical ecology.
YOU Can Help!
Write your federal representatives and let them know that you want to extend funding of these initiatives past 2008. Don't know how to get in touch with them? Visit www.congress.org.
Information on this page was taken from USAID's web site.
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