Foreign Affairs committee  I offer three recommendations for your consideration. We have found that these elements have been critical to creating successful public-private partnerships. They accelerate the achievement of development results, mitigate the risk of unintended consequences, and increase the likelihood of sustaining.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I would actually go so far as to say that I think working with the private sector has been essential to meeting our goals. I'll give you a couple of specific examples. Afghanistan has been a complicated country for all of us for quite some time. Now about half of their civil servants are actually paid in cash.

Foreign Affairs committee  We are really excited about a partnership we did on neglected diseases, particularly deworming. A lot of kids in the developing world don't show up at school every day. We thought it was because the parents wanted them to work in the fields or because the adolescent girls were menstruating—any number of reasons why.

Foreign Affairs committee  We have four main development goals: food security; adequate health, particularly on eliminating preventable deaths; economic growth, because we believe that broad-based economic growth is essential; and the last one is humanitarian assistance, primarily around disasters. Those are our four goals.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know the percentages off the top of my head, but I can tell you we are open for business and do partnerships around the world. We do partnerships with businesses in both developed and developing countries, small businesses as well as large. Not surprisingly, we haven't solved all the complications of doing a partnership with a big organization like the U.S. government.

Foreign Affairs committee  A huge portion of our partnerships have an NGO or an implementing partner. For example, after the Haiti earthquake, Coca-Cola came to us. They own the Odwalla brand. They wanted to source more mangos from Haiti. Haiti has a huge production of mangos, but they aren't of export quality and can't be put in juices.

Foreign Affairs committee  The bulk of these jobs are in the agricultural sector, all across the supply chain. I'm sure there are other jobs, but the bulk of them are in agricultural supply. Many of these smallholder farmers just don't have adequate access to markets for their products and they are subjected to middlemen taking the bulk of the profits on the way, as well as spoilage.

Foreign Affairs committee  They have an interest, and I can get you the specifics on these 800 jobs. I was told that they were in the agricultural sector, maybe some of them are in mining. But the idea behind our public-private partnership is a development goal that makes the benefits of the economic activity more broadly felt in the community in which the mining is happening.

Foreign Affairs committee  Part of it is access to markets domestically. What I don't know, but I will make sure I get back to you on, is whether the scope of that project includes any export. Primarily, we have looked at increasing the robustness of domestic supply chains, and we've been focused on export commodities, but that doesn't mean we don't think that's a valuable source of foreign direct investment and private capital flow.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's 79.

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, I don't know the answer to that. What I do know is that we are trying in countries from which people are exiting—particularly in Africa, where there are a lot of mineral resources, so we imagine the conditions are such that they can afford this—to set up some enabling conditions so there's transparency and there are goals so that transition goes well.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll tell you three things. One is that Secretary Clinton and USAID have set up a diaspora alliance, which she announced a year ago, and we will see partnerships, and it will really get off the ground at the end of July. So we want to develop an infrastructure over time that is independent of us so that you don't necessarily always have to have us as the broker in terms of diaspora projects.

Foreign Affairs committee  Ms. Brown.

Foreign Affairs committee  The foreign guest worker program and immigration in particular is beyond the scope of AID or my remit. I would say that it's not something we actually take a position on.

Foreign Affairs committee  But it's not only guest workers. It can be citizens. It can be wherever there are remittances. My mother was born and raised in the U.S. She adopted a family in Uganda that she has helped support for a long time. She sends them money. She can only send them money when she finds somebody who is actually going to Uganda.