DAI Selected as Top Innovator in Global Poll of International Development Professionals

BETHESDA, Maryland, April 18, 2011 - DAI has been named a Devex Top 40 Development Innovator, one of only 10
consulting firms so honored globally. The award was based on a poll of
100,000 Devex members, who comprise the world's largest network of aid and
international development professionals.

Employee-owned DAI implements approximately 100 development projects in
60 countries.

"It's an honor to be recognized for the fresh thinking and
resourcefulness we try to bring to the world's development challenges," said
Dr. James Boomgard, DAI President and CEO. "This award reflects the
investment we have made in innovation over the years but above all it speaks
to the spirit of our people and their commitment to our development mission.
As employee-owners, we have a very personal stake in the ideas, products, and
services we are bringing to the marketplace in service of that mission."

Recent DAI innovations include:

    - Using results-based financing to incentivize water service providers in
      Cambodia to pipe clean water into poor areas-resulting in sustainable
      connections to more than 11,000 households and 67,000 people at a
      fraction of the cost of most donor-funded piped-water initiatives.
    - Promoting household nutrition gardens to provide food security and
      improved incomes for HIV/AIDS-affected women and children in Ethiopia's
      urban centers-reaching more than 100,000 orphans and vulnerable
      children.
    - Uniting the climate change, forest preservation, and biodiversity
      agendas by increasing private sector involvement in orang-utan
      conservation in Indonesia-leading to more than half a million acres of
      industrial forests managed using best practices for orangutans.

Betsy Marcotte, DAI's Senior Vice President for Technical Programs,
emphasized that these successes could only have been facilitated through
local collaboration.

"For us, the most powerful catalyst of innovation over the next decade
will be the emerging leadership of host country development professionals and
institutions," Marcotte said, noting recent DAI investments in this area.

For example, in 2010 DAI founded the Center for Development Excellence,
which is dedicated to building the capacity of local consulting firms, NGOs,
and governments to win and effectively manage development programs. In its
first year of operations, the CDE has led training seminars in 18 countries.
DAI in the past two years has also established local offices in Mexico,
Pakistan, and Jordan, and bolstered its presence in South Africa and
Palestine under the leadership of Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt, based in London.

Dr. Boomgard and Ms. Marcotte will attend The Devex Innovators Forum on
April 21 at The Sweden House in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the
achievements of the Top 40 Development Innovators.

Founded in 1970, DAI is an independent, employee-owned, mission-driven
development firm. DAI has worked in 160 developing and transition countries,
providing development solutions in crisis mitigation and stability
operations, private sector development and financial services, agriculture
and agribusiness, democratic governance and public sector management,
economics and trade, water and natural resources management, HIV/AIDS and
zoonotic disease control, and energy and climate change.

Steven O'Connor, +1-301-771-7834, steven_o'connor at dai.com