United States Agency for International Development | Wikipedia audio article
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United States Agency for International Development


00:01:30 1 Goals
00:02:18 1.1 Disaster relief
00:03:10 1.2 Poverty relief
00:03:53 1.3 Global issues
00:04:35 1.3.1 Environment
00:05:13 1.4 U.S. bilateral interests
00:06:32 1.5 Socioeconomic development
00:07:31 2 Modes of assistance
00:07:47 2.1 Technical assistance
00:09:00 2.2 Financial assistance
00:10:04 3 Organization
00:10:29 3.1 Country development programs
00:13:27 3.2 USAID/Washington
00:17:08 3.3 Staffing
00:21:52 4 Inside a USAID field mission
00:22:35 4.1 Assistance management offices
00:23:08 4.1.1 Health and Family Planning
00:23:52 4.1.2 Education
00:24:49 4.1.3 Environment
00:25:28 4.1.4 Democracy
00:26:13 4.1.5 Economic Growth
00:27:23 4.1.6 Special assistance offices
00:27:59 4.2 The Office of the Mission Director and the Program Office
00:28:43 4.3 Contracting, financial management and management offices
00:29:14 4.3.1 Contracting offices
00:29:44 4.3.2 Financial management offices
00:30:23 4.3.3 Management offices
00:31:08 5 Assistance projects
00:33:01 5.1 Budget support to a government agency
00:33:54 5.2 Contract for TA to a government agency
00:35:25 5.3 Grant to finance NGO services to a beneficiary group
00:37:06 5.4 Grant to an international NGO for technical assistance
00:38:37 5.5 Other mechanisms
00:39:24 6 History
00:40:22 6.1 Before World War II
00:42:36 6.2 Institutionalization of U.S. development assistance
00:45:48 6.3 Maturation of U.S. development assistance institutions
00:46:33 6.3.1 The Post-War Foreign Aid Context
00:49:42 6.3.2 The Impact of War in Korea
00:51:01 6.3.3 The Impact of a Change in Administration
00:53:36 6.3.4 A Gradual Change of Course under Eisenhower
00:57:29 6.3.5 The Debate Resolved
01:03:40 6.4 Creation of USAID and the Development Decade
01:06:13 6.5 "New Directions" in the 1970s
01:10:16 6.6 Evolving organizational linkages with the State Department
01:15:12 7 Budgetary resources
01:17:30 8 Bilateral relationships in the news
01:17:41 8.1 Haiti
01:17:49 8.1.1 Response to 2010 Haiti earthquake
01:18:42 8.2 Iraq
01:19:47 8.3 Lebanon
01:20:09 8.4 Cuba
01:23:57 8.5 Bolivia
01:25:15 8.6 East Africa
01:26:09 9 Controversies and criticism
01:26:30 9.1 Goals
01:27:10 9.2 Modes of assistance
01:28:03 9.3 Cost of delivering assistance
01:28:40 9.4 Non-career contracts
01:29:50 9.5 Anti-government programs
01:30:56 9.6 Economic interests
01:32:02 9.7 Political interests
01:34:03 9.8 Influence on the United Nations
01:34:51 9.9 State Department terrorist list
01:35:44 9.10 Renouncing prostitution and sex trafficking
01:36:29 10 See also
01:36:38 11 Notes



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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 billion, USAID is one of the largest official aid agencies in the world, and accounts for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance—the highest in the world in absolute dollar terms.
Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961, which reorganized U.S. foreign assistance programs and mandated the creation of an agency to administer economic aid. USAID was subsequently established by the executive order of President John F. Kennedy, who sought to unite several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency. USAID became the first U.S. foreign assistance organization whose primary focus was long-term socioeconomic development.
USAID's programs are authorized by Congress in the Foreign Assistance Act, which Congress supplements through directions in annual funding appropriation acts and other legislation. As an official component of U.S. foreign policy, USAID operates subject to the guidance of the President, Secretary of State, and the National Security Council. USAID has missions in over 100 countries, primarily in Africa, As ...