FAA 117/119
What is the FAA?
The Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) of 1961, as amended, is USAID's underlying enabling legislation. Sections
117, 118, and 119 are of must importance to USAID Missions during their strategic planning process as these
sections require Missions to consider the environment, tropical forestry, and biodiversity in their
programming.
As applicable to E&E Missions, Section 119 requires that for each country development strategy statement or
other country plan, Missions prepare an analysis (or update to existing analysis) that address the following
questions:
- The actions necessary in that country to conserve biological diversity, and
- The extent to which the actions proposed for support by the Agency, meet the needs thus identified.
Links to the Foreign Assistance Act and Key Environmental Sections:
- Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, As
Amended (FAA) [PDF, 4MB]
This link will provide the entire Act which is more than 763 pages long and provides an overall context. For
ease of use, the links below lead to pages that provide selected FAA environment related sections.
Related Resources
Lessons Learned and Best Practices
In 2005 EGAT released a report titled "Tropical Forestry and Biodiversity (FAA 118 and 119) Analyses:
Lessons Learned and Best Practices from Recent USAID Experience". This review of USAID's recent experience
in conducting and using Tropical Forestry and Biodiversity analyses was designed to identify the lessons
learned from that experience, and to develop updated recommendations and practical, "how to" advice for
Missions or Regional Bureaus based on the best practices that could be found.
Tropical Forestry and Biodiversity (FAA 118
and 119) Analyses: Lessons Learned and
Best Practices from Recent USAID Experience -September 2005 [PDF, 653 KB]
Biodiversity Conservation: A Guide for USAID Staff and Partners
The goal of this Guide is to provide USAID staff and partners with basic information about designing,
managing, and implementing biodiversity conservation programs or activities. Biodiversity conservation is
an evolving, dynamic field, and this Guide serves as a starting point to shape and guide programs or
activities that should ultimately be implemented based on local environmental and socioeconomic conditions
and capacity of implementing partners, and should be managed adaptively in the field. This Guide is also
intended to be a starting point and to provide useful information about USAID's approach to biodiversity for
our partners and colleagues.
Biodiversity
Conservation: A Guide for USAID Staff and Partners - September 2005 [PDF, 7.3 MB]
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