i contacted one of the 1,427 health huts in senegal. monday actually. in these huts, volunteers, who are selected by their communities and trained by usaid are offering life-saving interventions to women or children who have health need, or they are referring them into the proper health system. by training local health workers and hiring local staff for project management, the program lowers overall costs while saving more lives. and it builds local capacity so that one day our aid will no longer be necessary. third, to get the best out of each employee, we are reforming our personnel policies. a development entrepreneur needs real flexibility and the ability to take risks. but at the moment, bureaucratic processes at our agency sometimes hold our stave back. in august we will be gnawing raying a set of changes that will cut back on red tape so our professionals can become more nimble at problem-solving. these are capable professionals with 20 or 30 years experience in the fields and sectors. this will be a major step forward in unlocking our capabiliti

by and large, those communities, whether they are in nigeria were senegal -- or senegal or kenya, these are all very moderate islamic communities, very much pro- west, and many of them are very close friends of the united states. >> we will take one more of these very quickly and then we will move on with the schedule. >> thank you very much. can you talk briefly about the driver for sustainable development in africa, which has treated well for the individuals with multiple income, for the purchase of goods, so the individual can have some means of looking after themselves or their family. if we think about -- you did not talk about the regional collaboration. and what the administration is doing to strengthen this, and within that framework, there is a sense of intelligence to solve some of these technical problems that they must have in order to attract their own natural resources. >> thank you for the question. the administration is committed to working with african regional organizations, and last week, -- in tanzania, the ambassador to tanzania presented his credentials to the east

there's a huge unmet need for dairy products in senegal. they have a program for collecting milk from small-scale dairy producers around the country, most of whom are women and otherwise will have a little bit of milk for their family and will take the rest and either give away or just lose it to waste and spoilage. instead, this company together with usaid and our partners are creating specific collection hubs. so people can go get a voucher, get a return for collecting their excess milk and putting it into a formal diary system. in country after country, if we can make that available to thousands of small producers, we can see the large scale change -- and in india, for example. it has been called a dairy revolution. it has changed the and the profile of hundreds of communities. it has been very large scale. it can succeed if we're smart and strategic. that is just one example. >> variations of the most commonly-cent in -- sent in question today. are there ways to insulate and monitor projects to make sure funds go where they need to gut?

in ghana, in senegal, thomas in -- and tanzania. this resolution also commends the social, economic and political progress being made by these nations while acknowledging the associated challenges that they face today. many of these nations have become democracies and are striving to be released from their past oppression. men and women have worked tirelessly to overcome colonialism, neocolonialism, social adjustments, internal and regional war and their own hurdles. they also face serious changes beyond their control, which has been exacerbated by the global financial crisis, climate change and terrorism. many of the african nations today are becoming economically, politically and strategically important to the united states. our nation simply cannot afford to take that away, we can't afford to mistakenly see africa as a desperate continent forever in need of charity from our nation. it's something in an intensified effort by china, russia, india, iran and other nations who seek to gain access to africa's vast natural resources. so

could please address iran's hard tower in regards to brazil, turkey, bahrain, yemen, sunoco se --n senegal, and i could go on. they have an incredible uranium supply being placed on rivers that ave ports to go to the atlantic. i would also be interested in having him go in a little more detail between the relationship of a russia and china in regards to miron. -- in regards to iran. by the green party and has been so ignored by this administration because that is why we're going to get change. host: can you define mean between soft and hard hours? caller: we use soft ppwer in order not to have to use are hard power. they use soft power in tandem with heart host: power. thaak you for the call -- in tandem with hard power. guest: they use soft and hard in tandem. hezbollah has won popular support with its hard exploits in south lebanon and its social services, its soft power. this has been an approach of a run threat the region. -- this has been an approach of the iran throughout the region. he has far more supporters, i would argue, in a lot of places like lebanon and places in the arab and