Posted on 07/23/2002 7:08:08 AM PDT by Registered
| USAID PROGRAM BUDGET |
The United States provides approximately .5 per cent of its annual budget for foreign assistance throughout the world. The U.S. Congress plays a significant role in helping determine U.S. Government priorities. Each year Congress drafts laws, which direct funds to specific development priorities it identifies. Other important players in the process for determining the levels of aid throughout the world include the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (for food assistance) and, of course, the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Following the signing of the Oslo accords in September 1993, the U.S. government provided $375 million between 1993 and 1998 through USAID to implement a program of development in the West Bank and Gaza.
In 1999, the regular USAID operating year budget was maintained at $75 million and in 2000 its level increased to $85 million. In 2000, the U.S. Congress appropriated an additional $400 million to USAID West Bank and Gaza to facilitate the implementation of the Wye River Accords.
In 2001, USAID West Bank/Gaza’s operating year budget remained at approximately $85 million. USAID funding for the West Bank and Gaza between 1993 and 2001 totals approximately $1 billion. Of this amount, $540 million had been obligated through September 2000 and approximately $460 million will be obligated by September 30, 2002.
Using the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation’s (MOPIC) comparative data, the U.S. is, by far, the highest disbursing bilateral donor in the West Bank and Gaza.
| Strategic Objective | FY 96 | FY 97 | FY 98 | FY 99 | FY 00 | FY 01 |
FY 02 As of 06/30/02 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expanded Economic Growth | 4,100 | 11,100 | 9,004 | 8,576 | 16,631 | 8,039 | 5,759 | 63,209 |
| Water Resources | 29,500 | 40,000 | 40,206 | 40,117 | 46,882 | 26,939 | 9,671 | 233,315 |
| Democracy/Governance | 9,300 | 9,850 | 10,721 | 10,839 | 15,582 | 11,715 | 8,731 | 76,738 |
| Improved Maternal/Child Health | 0 | 0 | 500 | 3,812 | 398 | 9,975 | 9,907 | 24,592 |
| Improved Community services |
12,800 | 4,000 | 0 | 15,000 | 31,213 | 52,324 | 32,315 | 147,652 |
| Selected Development Needs |
4,000 | 2,500 | 0 | 0 | 2,130 | 1,276 | 0 | 9,906 |
| Education | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,444 | 3,520 | 1,769 | 10,733 |
| Other | 3,300 | 1,100 | 254 | 1,879 | 1,188 | 505 | 1,067 | 9,293 |
| Total | 63,000 | 68,550 | 60,685 | 80,223 | 119,468 | 114,293 | 69,219 | 575,438 |
Established: Sept. 1993
Program Objectives: 6
Budget: $200M (2001)
Staff: 32 Americans, 65 local staff (Palestinians, Israelis, Jordanians, and others).
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Boycott 7/11.
Unfortunately, you can really only swing on one issue, and foreign aid isn't the worst problem we face. So then it's a trench war, just talking about it and letting people know what an abysmal waste foreign aid dollars are.
It's really kind of amazing how unserious both parties are about the coming bankruptcy of the FedGov. Spend, spend, spend... never mind the unaffordable obligations already incurred.
Stop it! Are you MAD?! Do you realize what would happen if we stopped the aid to the Palestinians? Why, we would lose out on......well, hrm. Falafel. Yeah. Think about it, dude: Is freeing the world from a horde of future terrorists really worth losing out on all that Falafel? I think not!
/sarcasm off
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