it also means doing a really hard scrum of usaid. -- really hard scrub of usaid. we're working hard to try to streamline the delivery of aid. i will give you an example. we have 24 different agencies that provide some sort of aid, development aid. it makes it difficult to speed with and that sort of faded voice in the country and to avoid redundancy -- to speak with an authoritative voice in the country and to avoid redundancy. you may go to another place and with the u.s.a. i deprogram get your children immunized. you may go to another place to try to uphold -- to try to get health care for pregnancy and labor and delivery. you may go to another place and try to get health with your crops to get fertilizer and seed. we have all of these parallel structures. the problem is if you are an ambassador in the country and secretary of state, if you call everyone that works directly for the government or on contract that is working in development to come together, as i have done in the past, i guarantee you that people in the room often do not know each other and rarely

thh 300year-old pakistani american -úsaid he believes the bomb woud kill about 40 people and he was couldve been devastating of course and to show what it would have done the federal governmmnt created an explosion of a bomb based on his failed device. exxerts people close to the car could have been injjred or killed by the fire and the force of the blast. also have been injuries from broken glass and falling debris frommnearby buillings. >>> u.s. rmy ranger from the state of maryland is killed in úfghanistan. jjhn joins with us morr on how folks in his own hometown are remembering him sergeant first class lance boeing el served 12 tours of duty ovee seas the. the block where he grew up the sergeant is fondly remembered and he joined the army nine years agoas deployed 4 times to iraq and 8 times to afghaaistan. that's where he was killed last frrday during combat. he has since received the purple heart,,6 3 bronze star medal for his service. >> thatthe was iijured in iraq on a previous tour of duty before going bbck to tte tour where he lost his life now and mention that he was injured an

we have usaid, the state department, health and human services, the center for disease control, all of these other groups that are working on this. we have a third whole of government initiatives on climate change. -- initiative and climate change did we want to change the way government functions, then change the way other governments function, and then deliver services in a way that makes sense to people within their own cultural and political atmosphere. >> our guest today at the commonwealth club of sovereign is secretary of state hillary clinton. iam greg dalton. -- i am greg dalton. afghanistan is some place where the u.s. is trying to promote economic development and democracy. with a question from the audience -- how do you define success in afghanistan? >> i define it as a stable country that is able to defend itself, and is making progress toward institutionalizing democracy and better services for the people. in order to get to that, we have to work with thte -- the afghan government to build up their own security forces. we're seeing progress in that arena, not enough, but

have been some difficulties for usaid to keep with the pace of the coin operation. we saw that in can car with the plan, the military decide to go ahead with a serb proposal. is the timeline -- and by the way, security has been a real problem. contract hashes are very high right now. so the question is is this time when having a very negative impact on usaid's ability to do what they need to do in the short timeframe, given the security circumstances? >> the problem with security, that's the fundamental issue. the question is how do you achieve security. so it's going to come right back to the question, how do you best achieve security. our busy, our troops have a role, but they are also targets. they also give the taliban their propaganda. so if getting the afghan forces, particularly the army, increased in size and capability is the best way to achieve security, then that kind of answers your question. there's an immediate need for security while this process is happening. and by the way, the afghan army is going to begin, is going to begin to secure our convoys.

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have been some difficulties for usaid to keep with the pace of the coin operation. we saw that in can car with the plan, the military decide to go ahead with a serb proposal. is the timeline -- and by the way, security has been a real problem. contract hashes are very high right now. so the question is is this time when having a very negative impact on usaid's ability to do what they need to do in the short timeframe, given the security circumstances? >> the problem with security, that's the fundamental issue. the question is how do you achieve security. so it's going to come right back to the question, how do you best achieve security. our busy, our troops have a role, but they are also targets. they also give the taliban their propaganda. so if getting the afghan forces, particularly the army, increased in size and capability is the best way to achieve security, then that kind of answers your question. there's an immediate need for security while this process is happening. and by the way, the afghan army is going to begin, is going to begin to secure our convoys.

usaid was saying bad job creation was very slow. they could not find people to take these work jobs because of security risks and that the amount of money spent was much lower than budgeted. do you have any numbers to quantify what you are saying is now a change? how many people are employed? how much money has been spent? you mentioned earlier the clearing operations. i have any of those districts been transferred back to afghan security control? >> i do not have the numbers with me. i am conscious that -- i think we have been able to be very effective. it has had a cigna the gift impact. we are not seeing the same kind of reluctance. it is entirely typical. immediately after a change of government in a district like that, people are naturally reluctant to change sides. they hedged their bets. what we've seen now is that people's confidence levels are building. the government is there to help them. the running the present program this year in a way that gives people a real choice. he is very confident that people will shift their d

overall responsibility for the relief and pakistan, humanitarian assistance there and worldwide taken by usaid. previously he serves as the undersecretary for research, education, and democracy where months his other notable achievements, he worked with food and agriculture. prior to joining the obama administration, dr. shopper -- served as the director better cultural development in the global government program in the bill in melinda gates foundation. to conduct a conversation between these very distinguished gentleman, we're very glad that steve coll has accepted the invitation to moderate the conversation. steve is president of the new american foundation, a contributor to the "new yorker" magazine, on complex issues like south asia, afghanistan, and pakistan. he is twice of pulitzer prize winner, including for his book "f ghosts wars -- the secret history of the cia to give it was a really -- the secret history of the cia." without further ado, foreign mr. qureshi, walking to brookings and the asia society. -- welcome to brookings and the asia society. [applause] >> good evening. thank y

together in today's announcement as a result of the commitments of the mobile technology companies, usaid, the state department. the kind of partnership that has been announced today, there is great hope that we will be able to close that gender digital divide the next several years. i will end their and turn this over to my colleague and he will provide you with another dimension. >> thank you. i wanted to provide a little bit of context to today's announcement as well as give some interesting data about why. today is another example of what the secretary of state is pioneering in 21st century statecraft. she talked about a world where we were no longer bound by vast distances or national boundaries, where information communication technology is allowing communication, commerce, collaboration to take place in ways that never had previously she spoke at great length about how technology is an on ramp to mundanity -- modernity. for every 10% increase in adoption of mobile telecom, there is a corresponding 14% increase in gdp. the day that she became secretary of state, there was an estimat