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United States Agency for International Development

U.S. Global Food Security Funding, FY2010-FY2012

Posted Wed, 04/27/2011 - 23:00

The United States currently addresses issues related to global hunger and food security through two primary types of approaches: (1) agricultural development and (2) emergency and humanitarian food aid and assistance. Agricultural development activities, such as the Administration's Feed the Future initiative and some emergency food assistance programs, are administered primarily by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) using existing authorities provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.

Foreign Aid Reform: Studies and Recommendations

Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 23:00

Many in Congress, the Bush Administration, and the non-governmental organization (NGO)
community believe that the 110th Congress set the stage for action on foreign aid reform by the
111th Congress and the new Administration in 2009.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the role of foreign assistance as a tool of U.S.
foreign policy has come into sharper focus. President George W. Bush elevated global
development as a third pillar of national security, with defense and diplomacy, as articulated in
the U.S.

Global Health: USAID Programs and Appropriations from FY2001 through FY2010

Posted Wed, 08/12/2009 - 23:00

A number of U.S. agencies and departments implement U.S. government global health interventions. Overall, U.S. global health aPssistance is not always coordinated. Exceptions to this include U.S. international responses to key infectious diseases--for example, U.S. programs to address HIV/AIDS through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), malaria through the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), and avian and pandemic influenza through the Avian Flu Task Force. Although a number of U.S.

The 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) "Swine Flu" Outbreak: U.S. Responses to Global Human Cases

Posted Sun, 07/19/2009 - 23:00

In April 2009, a novel influenza virus began to spread around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) refers to the virus as Influenza A(H1N1). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other Administration officials refer to it as 2009 H1N1 flu. Throughout this report, the virus is referred to as H1N1. Although H1N1 does not appear to be as lethal as H5N1 avian influenza, which reemerged in 2005, the virus is slightly more lethal than seasonal flu and it continues to spread.

Guinea's 2008 Military Coup and Relations with the United States

Posted Wed, 07/15/2009 - 23:00

Guinea is a Francophone West African country on the Atlantic coast, with a population of about 10 million. It is rich in natural resources but characterized by widespread poverty and limited socio-economic growth and development. While Guinea has experienced regular episodes of internal political turmoil, it was considered a locus of relative stability over the past two decades, a period during which each of its six neighbors suffered one or more armed internal conflicts.

U.S. Security Assistance to the Palestinian Authority

Posted Tue, 06/23/2009 - 23:00

Since shortly after the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the mid-1990s, the United States has periodically provided assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) for civil security and counterterrorism purposes. Following the death of Yasser Arafat in late 2004 and the election of Mahmoud Abbas as his successor as PA President in early 2005, then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice created the office of U.S.