Summary of FY 2001 Budget Request Statement of the Administrator Summary of FY 2000 Emergency Supplement Request Program Performance & Prospects Management Improvements & Challenges Operating Expenses, USAID Operating Expenses, Inspector General Foreign Service Disability and Retirement Fund Summary Tables Regions    Africa,    Asia & the Near East,    Europe & Eurasia,    Latin America & the Caribbean Central Programs BHR, Global, PPC Glossary Abbreviations & Acronyms Friday, 03-Aug-2001 23:38:18 EDT

EXPLANATION OF TABLES

Overview

Most of the tables illustrate the foreign assistance budget request for FY 2001, which is a part of the President's Budget. The tables also include budget levels for FY 1998 through FY 2000 for comparison. The levels for FYs 1998 through 1999 are based on the FY 1998, FY 1999 and FY 2000 appropriations acts. FY 1999 and FY 2000 levels are post-rescission levels.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administers certain U.S. bilateral assistance programs including Sustainable Development Assistance, which includes the Child Survival and Diseases Program Fund (CSD), the Development Assistance Fund (DA), the Development Fund for Africa (DFA) (in the FY 2001 request only), and other specialized DA accounts for credit programs and disaster assistance; the Economic Support Fund (ESF); programs for Central and Eastern Europe under the Support for East European Democracy Act (SEED); the Independent States of the former Soviet Union under the Freedom Support Act (FSA); and Food For Peace Titles II and III (P.L. 480). Title III has not been requested since FY 1999. The tables follow USAID funding from the overall account summaries to the individual country program levels. There are differences between some of the tables because of the alternative budget concepts being presented.

Each table describes funding from one of several approaches. New budget authority (also referred to as new obligational authority or NOA) refers to the funding levels appropriated by Congress in a given year after certain legislatively mandated transfers or rescissions. For the actual results of the prior year, total budget authority (BA) refers to the new budget authority plus reappropriations (such as deobligations and reobligations) and transfers. The program level (or obligation level) is the same as the total BA plus obligations of unobligated balances carried over from prior years less unobligated balances carried into subsequent years. Funds appropriated are not always obligated within the same year if they are available for more than one year which is the case for the DA, CSD, ESF, SEED and FSA accounts.

All DA and CSD account levels in these tables represent levels after congressionally-mandated transfers to the Inter-American Foundation, the African Development Foundation, and UNICEF, which the Administration continues to request under other accounts.

On all tables amounts shown for FY 2001 represent proposed new budget authority (or the request level), which assumes no unobligated balances from prior years.

International Affairs Budget Authority Tracker - FYs 1998-2001 (Table 1)

Programs and activities within the International Affairs 150 Account fall under the jurisdiction of three appropriation subcommittees. Table 1 shows the 150 account subdivided according to subcommittee jurisdiction (Foreign Operations, Agriculture, and Commerce/Justice/State) for FYs 1998 through 2001.

• Foreign Operations contains most of the programs under subfunction 151 (International Development and Humanitarian Assistance) including USAID-administered DA and humanitarian assistance, and subfunction 152 (International Security Assistance) including USAID-administered ESF programs. Other programs in the Foreign Operations classification include multilateral assistance, other bilateral assistance agencies such as the Trade and Development Agency, the Peace Corps, and the African Development Foundation, plus Military Assistance, and Export-Import Bank contributions.

• The Agriculture portion of the 150 Account refers principally to the food assistance provided under P.L. 480 which is appropriated to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), but, in the case of Title II (and III programs until FY 2000 when this program was discontinued), is managed by USAID.

• The Commerce/Justice/State portion of the budget reflects Department of State administrative operations, the operations of the former United States Information Agency (USIA) and other public information programs, and assessed contributions to international organizations.

Table 1 shows discretionary new budget authority levels for FYs 1998, 1999, 2000, and the request level for FY 2001.

FY 2000 levels also reflect Administration supplemental requests for the Kosovo and Southeast Europe Initiative, Plan Colombia, and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.

"All Spigots" - U.S. Economic and Military Assistance - Appropriated Levels: FYs 1998-2001 (Table 2A -- HTML, 128K, Table 2B -- HTML, 106K and Table 2C -- PDF, 156K).

"All spigots" tables show appropriated levels for FYs 1998, 1999, 2000, and the requested appropriations for FY 2001.

The appropriations tables show the levels by bureau and country for CSD, DA, ESF, SEED, FSA, Peace Corps, Narcotics, P.L. 480, and Military Assistance accounts.

Appropriated levels are those enacted by the Congress and do not include carryover amounts, transfers or funds available under the deobligation/reobligation authority.

"All Spigots" - U.S. Economic and Military Assistance Levels - Program (Obligation) Levels: FYs 1998-1999 (actuals), FY 2000 (estimates) and FY 2001 request - (Table 3A -- HTML, 68K and Table 3B -- PDF, 161K)

These "All-Spigots" tables show the program level (obligations) by bureau and country for CSD, DA, ESF, SEED and FSA. The Peace Corps, Narcotics, PL 480, and Military Assistance data, however, are the same as in the appropriation spigots.

Tables 3A and 3B represent new budget authority plus any country allocations of prior year funds which are known at this time. (Not all of the unobligated prior year funds are allocated to specific countries at this time). Table 3B FY 2000 allocations change until the year's obligations are finalized at the end of the fiscal year.

The program level tables for FYs 1998, 1999 and FY 2000 are included because the obligated level is considered to be the most complete picture of assistance actually provided to a particular recipient in a given year.

P.L. 480 Spigots - Titles II and III Program Levels (Table 4A and Table 4B -- HTML, 73K)

USAID is responsible for the administration and implementation of P.L. 480 Title II (and Title III until FY 2000). Table 4A (Title III) shows actual program levels for FYs 1998-1999 and estimated levels for FY 2000; there is no request for Title III for FY 2001. Table 4B (Title II) shows actual program levels for FYs 1998-1999, estimated levels for FY 2000 and the FY 2001 request for transport, voluntary agencies (Volags), the World Food Program (WFP), and the International Emergency Food Reserve. The tables for Title II programs are broken out into two sections. The first section reflects funding at the country level. The second section reflects tonnage amounts.

Additional Tables

Sustainable Development Budget (Table 5) This table breaks out the three Sustainable Development accounts of Child Survival and Diseases, Development Assistance, and the Development Fund for Africa by five Agency goal areas and breaks out these goal areas by sub-goals.

Central America and the Caribbean Emergency Disaster Recovery Fund (Table 6) This fund was appropriated as an emergency supplemental in FY 1999. This table reflects appropriation and obligation data as of December 31, 1999 and is broken out by countries being assisted through USAID-managed programs. Also shown are funds which have been transferred to other agencies.

Debt Rescheduling - Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) (Table 7) This program is managed by the Treasury Department and a $210 million supplemental has been requested by Treasury in FY 2000, as reflected on the International Affairs Table 1. Table 7 provides data on those countries receiving debt relief in FYs 1998 and 1999. Decisions have not been made on which countries will receive debt relief in FY 2000 or FY 2001.

Office of Transition Initiatives (Table 8) This table covers FYs 1998-2001 and breaks out actual or proposed disaster assistance funding levels by country.