United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID provides funds for the following Medair country programmes:
- Sudan (Northern States)
- Uganda
About USAID
The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country.
U.S. foreign assistance has the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world. USAID works around the world to achieve these goals.
USAID's history goes back to the Marshall Plan reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration's Point Four Program. In 1961, the Foreign Assistance Act was signed into law and USAID was created by executive order.
Since that time, USAID has been the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.
U.S. humanitarian aid
USAID provides assistance in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Eurasia. The agency works in 100 developing countries and in close partnership with private voluntary organisations such as Medair, indigenous groups, universities, American businesses, international organisations, other governments, trade and professional associations, faith-based organisations, and other U.S. government agencies.
Types of USAID assistance
- technical assistance and capacity building
- training and scholarships
- food aid and disaster relief
- infrastructure construction
- small-enterprise loans
- budget support
- enterprise funds
- credit guarantees
Note: Most of the information for this page was sourced from the USAID website: http://www.usaid.gov/
