Since 1961 the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.

USAID is an independent federal government agency that supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance. The Agency provides assistance in five regions of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Eurasia; and The Middle East.

In December 2003, Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide, JA Member Nations throughout Eastern Europe and the CIS, ExxonMobil, HP, SYBASE, The John Templeton Foundation, BellSouth, and USAID’s Europe and Eurasia Bureau formed a $5 million Global Development Alliance (GDA) to promote Global Business Ethics. Since 2004 the Global Business Ethics program has been implemented in 16 countries (Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus). The GDA is providing thousands of young people with a fundamental understanding of core ethical values that underpin free and open markets and well governed democracies.

www.usaid.gov

StatoilHydro – One of the world's largest crude oil and gas suppliers, and the biggest seller of oil products in Scandinavia. Established on October 1 2007 following the merger between Statoil and Hydro's oil and gas activities.

Focusing its activity on education and capacity building, StatoilHydro supports Junior Achievement’s initiatives in Azerbaijan to raise business-literate cadres for country’s developing economy.

Together with State Oil Committee of Azerbaijan Republic and other international companies, StatoilHydro participate in oil production from Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli and in gas production and exploration on Shah Deniz, Alov, Araz and Sharq, and as a partner in the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeyhan oil pipeline.

www.statoilhydro.com