Dollars to Results provides information on the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) impact around the world by linking annual spending (inputs) to results (outputs and outcomes) in several of the more than 100 developing countries where we work.

This website is one of the ways USAID is improving its transparency and accountability.

An input is a resource, such as funds, technical assistance, commodities, or training, which is used to create an output.

An output is a tangible, immediate, and intended product or consequence of a USAID activity. An outcome is a higher level or end result (after two to three years) which has a positive impact on and leads to change in the development situation of the host country.

Although the majority of the public believes that 25 percent of the federal budget is spent on foreign assistance, in reality U.S. foreign aid accounts for less than 1 percent of the total federal budget.

For more information about foreign assistance spending please visit the Foreign Assistance Dashboard.

USAID partners with a wide variety of organizations including:  1) U.S. nonprofit and for-profit organizations; 2) host countries, including the public and private sector; and 3) multilateral and nonprofit international organizations.

All financial data displayed, including income data, are in U.S. dollars.

The spending reported in Dollars to Results is managed by USAID.  It includes funds that have been given to another federal agency and transferred to USAID for implementation (for example: The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief transfers money to USAID for its HIV/AIDS work).  Dollars to Results does not include funds that USAID transferred to other federal agencies for implementation.

Spent funds refer to government outlays, disbursements, and expenditures. These are measures of government spending and include the amount of checks issued, cash disbursed, interest accrued, and net of refunds and reimbursements. They are payments to liquidate obligations (other than the repayment of debt). 

Dollars to Results includes USAID foreign assistance spending and results data. These figures come from the Agency’s enterprise-wide financial management system, Phoenix, and the interagency foreign assistance reporting tool, FACTS Info, which is managed by the Department of State.

Malaria results, except for South Sudan, are from the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) 6th Report to Congress. South Sudan results are from FACTS Info as it is not a PMI country.

Population data comes from the 2012 Population Reference Bureau.

Income data comes from the United Nations Development Programme’s 2011 Human Development Reports.

No. Dollars to Results currently links spending to results achieved for several of the more than 100 developing countries where USAID works, with plans to expand in the future. The results are a snapshot of USAID’s work.  More information about our work in highlighted countries can be found in the Related Links to USAID country pages, project information, and evaluations.

Dollars to Results links Country Mission spending in a fiscal year to results reported by the Mission for that same year. In order to most accurately link spending to results, Dollars to Results does not include:

1. Spending in a fiscal year if results are reported in the following year or results reported if funds were spent in the previous year;
2. Spending by USAID/Washington for global programs, with the exception of the Office of Transition Initiatives programs in Haiti, Kenya, and Uganda;
3. Humanitarian Assistance, as the majority of spending is managed by the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and Food for Peace on a global basis (links to additional information are included on each country page); and
4. Administrative and operating support spending, which supports multiple efforts making it difficult to link them to specific results.

Financial information is indicative of U.S. dollars spent by the Country Mission and may be related to funding appropriated over various years. 

Results reflect standard indicators, which are used across country programs. Dollars to Results does not include custom indicator data except in unique cases.

Results are linked to spending in one fiscal year. USAID’s interactive map and evaluation database provide more details about our work and long-term results data.

Dollars to Results financial data differ from other USAID and U.S. Government websites because each of these websites has different funding timeframes and reporting parameters for what is displayed. Please refer to each of these websites for more detail.

Dollars to Results follows the Foreign Assistance Dashboard taxonomy, which is the basis for financial reporting.

The website will be updated once a year when new fiscal year spending and results information is available.

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. Spending and results for fiscal year 2011 include USAID non-humanitarian development activities in Sudan as whole, the majority of which was focused in South Sudan. Future data will be exclusive to the new nation.

All spent amounts over $100 thousand are rounded to the nearest 100 thousand.

In cases where the spent amount is less than $100,000, it is rounded to the nearest 10 thousand.  In cases where the spent amount is less than $10,000, it is rounded to the nearest thousand.  In these instances, the total spent amount listed at the top of the page is left rounded to the nearest 100 thousand.  For example, if malaria spending was listed as $1.2 million, tuberculosis as $40,000, and HIV/AIDS as $2.5 million, the total amount is listed as $3.7 million, not as $3,740,000.