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USAID Policy and the Pioneering International Urban Development
October 9, 2018 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
US Policy and the Pioneering International Urban Development: Stories from the Trenches in USAID – Dr. Eric Chetwynd
Dr. Chetwynd will talk about how and why USAID adopted its first urban development policy and program and the impact of Congress on the outcome. He will discuss the role of cities in rural development and how adapting to Congressional mandates shaped outcomes. If there is time he will touch upon USAID’s pioneering work on managing energy and creating resource efficient cities and will share with us how the US had an opportunity to stop climate change in the 1980s. What went wrong?
Eric Chetwynd completed a career in USAID, including as Director, Office of Economic and Institutional Development, Bureau for Research and Development from from 1986 to 1992. He managed a broad interdisciplinary portfolio of programs supporting national and regional economic growth, natural resources and environmental management, governance. He is recognized as an innovator in new approaches to municipal development and management, institutional and economic development reform. He has implemented programs that intersected with US and Multilateral urban and regional development policies around the globe. He is most recently the author of Pioneering in International Development: Creating US Policies and Programs, a book that provides a front line snapshot of USAID history and Urban Policy.
Dr. Chetwynd holds a doctorate from Duke and a BA and MA from Northeastern and SAIS respectively.