Digital Freedom Initiative
The goal of the Digital Freedom Initiative (DFI) is to promote economic growth by transferring the benefits of information and communication technology (ICT) to entrepreneurs and small businesses in the developing world. Elements of this initiative include:

• Placing volunteers in small businesses to share business knowledge and technology expertise,
• Promoting pro-growth regulatory and legal structures to enhance business competitiveness, and
• Leveraging existing technology and communications infrastructure in new ways.

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEFPAR) is a five-year commitment to turn the tide in combating the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The initiative will help the most afflicted countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Specifically, the initiative will:

• Prevent 7 million new infections,
• Treat 2 million HIV-infected people, and
• Care for 10 million HIV-infected individuals and AIDS orphans.

Middle East Partnership Initiative
The Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) reaffirms President Bush's commitment of the United States to promote and support reform in the Middle East. The initiative:

• Promotes financial sector reforms,
• Supports business linkages
• Develops entrepreneurship among Middle Eastern youth, and
• Supports enhancement of human rights, empowerment of women, and democracy.

African Global Competitiveness Initiative
At the Fourth Annual African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Ministerial Forum in Dakar in July 2005, President Bush announced the African Global Competitiveness Initiative (AGCI) to build sub-Saharan Africa�s capacity for trade and competitiveness. Building on the successes of the recently completed Trade for African Development and Enterprise (TRADE) Initiative, the AGCI has four strategic objectives:

• Improve the policy, regulatory, and enforcement environment for private sector-led trade and investment;
• Improve the market knowledge, skills, and abilities of private sector enterprises;
• Increase access to financial services for trade and investment; and
• Facilitate investments in infrastructure

Water for the Poor Initiative
This initiative improves the sustainable management of fresh water resources in developing countries. It supports:

• Access to clean water and sanitation services,
• Improved watershed management, and
• Increasing the productivity of water.

Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)
On January 23, 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) was established to administer the MCA, an innovative foreign assistance program designed to make U.S. aid more effective. A key objective of MCA is to reduce poverty by significantly increasing economic growth through targeted investments in recipient countries. To be eligible for assistance:

• countries must demonstrate commitment to three standards: ruling justly, investing in their people, and encouraging economic freedom.

President's Malaria Initiative
Announced by President George W. Bush in June 2005, the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) is a historic $1.2 billion, five-year initiative to control malaria in Africa. The goal of the PMI is to assist national malaria control programs to cut malaria-related deaths by 50 percent in fifteen target countries in Africa. President Bush amended the Volunteers for Prosperity (VfP) initiative established in September 2003 to include support for the U.S. Government�s goal to control malaria. Speaking at the first-ever White House Summit on Malaria on December 14th, 2006, the President said VfP would be utilized to send American doctors, nurses and health care professionals as volunteers overseas to combat the preventable disease, and organizations deploying them may more easily receive federal grants targeting malaria control. Learn more…