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Note: This document may not always reflect the actual appropriations determined by Congress. Final budget allocations for USAID's programs are not determined until after passage of an appropriations bill and preparation of the Operating Year Budget (OYB).

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SOME COMMON ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

Bureau for Africa

AALC - African-American Labor Center
ACDI - Agriculture Cooperative Development International
ADEA - Association for the Development of Education in Africa
AELGA - Africa Emergency Locust/Grasshopper Assistance
AFDB - African Development Bank
AFDF - Africa Development Fund
AFSI - Africa Food Security Initiative
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIDSCAP -    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Control and Prevention Project
AIFLD - American Institute for Free Labor Development
AOJ - Administration of Justice
ARD - Associates in Rural Development
ASARECA - Association for Strengthening of Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa
ATI - Appropriate Technology International
ATRIP - Africa Trade and Investment Pprogram
AWACS - AID Worldwide Accounting and Control System

BASIC - Basic Support for Institutionalized Child Support
BCN - Biodiversity Conservation Network
BNC - Binational Commission (U.S and South Africa)

CA - Cooperating Agency
CAMPFIRE - Communal Area Management Program for Indigenous Resources (Zimbabwe)
CARE - Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc.
CARPE - Central African Regional Program for the Environment
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDIE - Center for Development Information and Evaluation
CFA - African Financial Community
CG - Consultative Group
CGIAR - Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
CILSS - Permanent Interstate Committee for the Control of Drought in the Sahel
CLUSA - Cooperative League of the United States of America
CP - Congressional Presentation
CPP - Comprehensive Post Partum
CPR - Contraceptive Prevalence Rate
CRS - Catholic Relief Services
CRSP - Collaborative Research Support Program
CSD - Child Survival and Disease Fund
CSM - Contraceptive Social Marketing
CYP - Couple Year's Protection

DA - Development Assistance
DAC - Development Assistance Committee
DART - Disaster Assistance Response Team
DFA - Development Fund for Africa
DG - Democracy and Governance
DHRF - Democracy and Human Rights Fund
DHS - Demographic Health Survey
DPT - Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus
DWG - Democracy Working Group

EAP - Environmental Action Plan
EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC - European Community
- European Commission
ECA - Enhanced Credit Authority
ECOMOG - Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group
ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States
EG - Economic Growth
EIP - Environmental Impact Assessment
ENI - Europe and New Independent States
ENR - Environment and Natural Resources
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EPI - Expanded Program of Immunization
ERP - Economic Recovery Program
ESF - Economic Support Fund
EU - European Union

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
FEWS - Famine Early Warning System
FFP - Food for Peace
FFW - Food for Work
FP - Family Planning
FSN - Foreign Service National
FSRDF - Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund
FTA - Free Trade Area
FTZ - Free Trade Zone

G-7 -    Group of Seven (leading industrialized nations consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States)
GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GCA - Global Coalition for Africa
GCC - Global Climate Change
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GHAI - Greater Horn of Africa Initiative
GHG - Green House Gas
GNP - Gross National Product
GNRA - Government Management Reform Act
GPRA - Government Performance Review Act (P.L. 103-62)
GSP - General System of Preference

HASP - Horn of Africa Support Project
HBCU - Historically Black Universities and Colleges
HG - Housing Guaranty
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HIID - Harvard Institute for International Development

IACCC - Inter-Agency Climate Change Committee
IARC - International Agricultural Research Center
IBRD -    International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
ICITAP -    International Criminal Investigation and Training Assistance Program
ICRISAT - International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
IDA - International Development Association
IEC - Information, Education and Communications

IESC - International Executive Service Corps
IFES - International Foundation for Electoral Systems
IFRC - International Federation of the Red Cross
IFI - International Financial Institute
IG - Inspector General
IGAD - Intergovernmental Authority on Development (GHAI))
ILO - International Labor Organization
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IMR - Infant Mortality Rate
IPPF - International Planned Parenthood Federation
IQ - Intelligence Quotient
IRI - International Republican Institute
ISA - Initiative for Southern Africa

LWOB - Lessons Without Borders

MCH - Maternal and Child Health
MDB - Multilateral Development Bank
MIS - Management Information System
MOA - Ministry of Agriculture
MOE - Ministry of Education
MOF - Minister of Finance
MOH - Ministry of Health
MOPH - Ministry of Public Health
MSED - Micro and Small Enterprise Development
MSH - Management Sciences for Health
MT - Metric Ton

NDI - National Democratic Institute
NED - National Endowment for Democracy
NGO - Nongovernmental Organization
NMS - New Management System
NPI - New Partnership Initiative
NPR - National Performance Review
NRM - Natural Resource Management
NTE - Non-traditional Export

ODA - Official Development Assistance
- Overseas Development Administration (British)
OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECF - Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund
OFDA - Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance/USAID
OMB - Office of Management and Budget
ORS - Oral Rehydration Salts
OTI - Office of Transition Initiative/USAID

PA - Project Assistance
PASA - Participating Agency Service Agreement
PHN - Population, Health and Nutrition
PLO - Palestinian Liberation Organization
PRIME - Program for Innovation in Microenterprise
PSC - Personal Service Contract
PVO - Private Voluntary Organization

R-4 - Results Review and Resource Requirement
RCSA - Regional Center for Southern Africa/USAID
RDA - Regional Development Account
REDSO - Regional Economic Development Support Office/USAID
RHUDO - Regional Housing and Urban Development Office/USAID
RIF - Reduction in Force
RIG - Regional Inspector General

SADC - Southern Africa Development Community
SAEDF - Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund
SAP - Structural Adjustment Program
SCF - Save the Children
SEATS - Family Planning Service Expansion and Technical Support
SME - Small and Medium Enterprises
SMME - Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
SO - Strategic Objective
SPA - Special Program of Assistance for Africa
- Small Program Assistance
SPRP - Sector Policy Reform Program
SSH - Special Self Help Program
STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease
STI - Sexually Transmitted Infection

TBD - To Be Determined
TFR - Total Fertility Rate

U5RM - Under 5 Mortality Rate
UK - United Kingdom
UN - United Nations
UNDP - United Nation Development Program
UNESCO -    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
UNICEF - United Nations Children Fund
USAID - U.S. Agency for International Development
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USDH - United States Direct Hire
USIA - United States Information Agency

VOA - Voice of America

WAEN - West Africa Enterprise Network
WFP - World Food Program
WHO - World Health Organization
WID - Women in Development
WTO - World Trade Organization
WWF - Worldwide Fund for Nature

Y2K - Year 2000

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