What We Do
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Improved Food Security: Today Abe produces over 5 million eggs a year and enough chicken meat to feed 108,000 people.
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A water catchment area in a frequently drought-affected region of Ethiopia. USAID programs have built irrigation channels and harvest rain water for livestock.
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Global Health: A woman in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) administers a polio vaccine March 23 in Commune de Ndjili, Kinshasa.
Our assistance develops the markets of the future; long-time aid recipients have become strong trade partners and are the fastest growing markets for American goods. USAID is developing partnerships with countries committed to enabling the private sector investment that is the basis of sustained economic growth to open new markets for American goods, promote trade overseas, and create jobs here at home.
Feed the Future: Women and Agriculture
USAID | Pakistan Flood Assistance
Our assistance develops the markets of the future; long-time aid recipients have become strong trade partners and are the fastest growing markets for American goods. USAID is developing partnerships with countries committed to enabling the private sector investment that is the basis of sustained economic growth to open new markets for American goods, promote trade overseas, and create jobs here at home.
In an interconnected world, instability anywhere around the world can impact us here at home. Working side-by-side with the military in active conflicts, USAID plays a critical role in our nation’s effort to stabilize countries and build responsive local governance; we work on the same problems as our military using a different set of tools. We also ease the transition between conflict and long-term development by investing in agriculture, health systems and democratic institutions. And while USAID can work in active conflict, or help countries transition from violence, the most important thing we can do is prevent conflict in the first place. This is smarter, safer and less costly than sending in soldiers.
USAID extends help from the American people to achieve results for the poorest and most vulnerable around the world. That assistance does not represent a Democratic value or a Republican value, but an American value; as beneficiaries of peace and prosperity, Americans have a responsibility to assist those less fortunate so we see the day when our assistance is no longer necessary.
USAID invests in ideas that work to improve the lives of millions of men, women and children by:
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Investing in agricultural productivity so countries can feed their people
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Combating maternal and child mortality and deadly diseases like HIV, malaria and tuberculosis
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Providing life-saving assistance in the wake of disaster
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Promoting democracy, human rights and good governance around the world
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Fostering private sector development and sustainable economic growth
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Helping communities adapt to a changing environment
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Elevating the role of women and girls throughout all our work
Last updated: October 15, 2012
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