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is important for a GCC to be knowledgeable of these
funding sources and their various motivations—from
religious, to political, to commercial—and where possible support alignment in both short-term HA/DR
operations and long-term strategic climate change resiliency efforts.
The GCC also has a role in collaborating with USAID in prioritizing risk and focusing the USAID’s
Global Climate Change Initiative’s strategic investments.64 Specific to Haiti and the Cul-de-Sac Basin (and
the Matheux Basin) addressed in the section above,
USAID administers the Watershed Investment Fund
(WIF) to provide grants, subcontracts, direct procurement, training and short-term technical assistance to
selected beneficiaries.65 To fully realize the intent of the
President’s call for “an enhanced level of interagency
cooperation in complex security environments” GCCs
and USAID’s Senior Development Advisor should
work together with the partner nation to determine if
the development goals can best be achieved by DoDTitle 10 authority, a DoS-Title 22 authority (e.g. foreign military sales (FMS) case), a USAID-only funding
mechanism, a foreign non-governmental development
bank, or a wholly private enterprise.66 Considerations
for determining the appropriate funding source include the local nation’s ability to contribute, the riskbased prioritization from both the security/access and
the humanitarian risk perspective, and finally availability of other non-governmental or private funds.
The President’s Global Development Policy and
the USAID Forward transformation initiative ͕