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DCI Group has picked up a $3M one-year pact to help Myanmar rebuild its relations with the US.
The focus is on trade, natural resources and humanitarian relief, especially in the wake of the massive earthquake that rocked the former Burma on March 28, killing at least 5,400 people.
President Trump’s decision to eliminate the US Agency for International Development limited America’s ability to respond to Myanmar’s deadliest earthquake since 1930.
The State Dept. claims the US via international partners channeled $9M into the devastated area for emergency shelter, food, medical support, health, access to clean – health, access to clean water, and sanitation.
The US imposed sanctions on Myanmar relations for the military’s 2017 genocide of the Rohingya people and 2021 coup.
DCI Group, which has strong ties to the Republican Party, has managing partner Justin Peterson and partner Ryan Grillo handling the Myanmar account.
Peterson worked on the presidential campaigns of Elizabeth Dole and George W. Bush. Trump appointed him to serve as his rep to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.
Grillo began his career as a staffer for Sen. Chuck Hagel and oversees DCI’s global business and its office in Brussels.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has agreed to provide government relations and PA services to the Kingdom of Morocco.
The Washington Media Group is providing strategic communications support for Qatar's Education City, home of satellite facilities of Weill Cornell Medicine, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown and others.
DCI Group has signed a $250K monthly retainer contract to provide communications and government affairs services for the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
DGA Group signs $42,500 monthly retainer pact to provide government affairs services to OCP North America, phosphate fertilizer operation owned by the Government of Morocco.
Qorvis is working with the embassy of Ghana to advance the mission of the country’s Millennium Excellence Foundation in the US.
