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Policy Framework for Bilateral Foreign Aid

Policy Framework for Bilateral Foreign Aid

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To implement transformational diplomacy through development, USAID has adopted a new policy framework. It affirms that USAID will seek to use bilateral foreign assistance to build toward a safer, more secure, democratic and prosperous world in order to enhance our own national security. Implementing this policy will make U.S. bilateral aid more effective and better coordinated with other U.S. Government policies and programs.

The docment identifies and elaborates on five core strategic goals for foreign aid:

  • Promote Transformational Development

  • Strengthen Fragile States

  • Support Strategic States
  • Provide Humanitarian Relief

  • Address Global Issues and Other Special, Self-standing Concerns

    The framework:
  • Details USAID's shift in policy and strategic direction

  • Specifies what steps will be necessary in order to make these policies fully operational

  • Positions the Agency in broader discussions of the role of foreign aid worldwide

  • Puts countries at the center of their own development, with bilateral foreign aid in a supporting role


  • The document synthesizes the insights and innovations of previous publications (as linked on the right-side module of this page), including:

  • Foreign Aid in the National Interest
  • White Paper: U.S. Foreign Aid: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century
  • USAID's Fragile States Strategy

  • At Freedom's Frontiers: A Democracy and Governance Strategic Framework


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