Andrew Natsios
Andrew Natsios
Andrew S. Natsiosis an American public servant of Greek origin who has served in a number of Massachusetts and high level federal government positions. Most notably, he has served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, and Vice President of World Vision. Currently, Natsios teaches as Executive Professor at The Bush School of Government and Public Service...
optimal people
even in a best-case scenario, under optimal conditions, we could see as many as 320,000 people die.
basically created europeans standard
a standard that Europeans created basically for their own purposes.
andy president resign several tried
Andy has tried to resign several times but the president just would not have it.
dealt problems
There have been problems. ... I think most of them have been dealt with at this point,
committed emergency money sunday took
The money was committed on Sunday when the emergency took place,
extensive generous history
the most generous and the most extensive in American history for the U.S. government.
equip fund government help mainly officials pay
This fund will mainly help pay salaries of government officials and equip their offices.
armed cannot factions government opportunity warn
We need this opportunity to warn armed factions and some of the militias that they must back the new government or we cannot do our reconstruction.
aid huge money programs
If you don't have those other conditions, you can put huge amounts of money into aid programs and they'll be ineffective.
efforts food program shut
They are going to shut down the World Food Program efforts at the end of this year, which we think is a mistake.
government higher level mechanism response
The humanitarian response mechanism for the U.S. government is now ramping up to a much higher level of readiness,
food program
If the World Food Program leaves, we're leaving,
assure complement food full gets intended longer operation
If the WFP operation is no longer in place, with its full complement of international staff, there will be no way to even minimally assure that this food gets to its intended recipients,
aid corruption programs quickly weak
If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, where there isn't capacity, you have corruption, and the programs don't work.