Explanation of Summary Tables
Overview
Most of the tables illustrate the foreign assistance budget request for FY2004, which is a part of the President's Budget. The tables also include budget levels for FY 2001 through FY 2003 for comparison. The levels for FYs 2001 through 2002 are based on the FY 2001, FY 2002 appropriations acts. FY2001 levels are post-rescission levels. FY 2003 account levels reflect the Administration’s request, since appropriations had not been enacted at the time of printing of these budget documents. FY 2001 and FY 2002 include supplementals: the FY 2001 emergency supplemental, the FY 2002 Emergency Response Fund (ERF), and
the FY 2002 supplemental are shown under the applicable accounts as separate lines.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administers certain
U.S. bilateral assistance programs including the Child Survival and Health
Programs Fund (CSH); the Development Assistance account (DA), and other specialized
DA accounts
for credit programs and disaster assistance; the Economic Support Fund (ESF);
Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States (AEEB);Assistance for the
Independent States of the former Soviet Union under the Freedom Support Act
(FSA); and Food For Peace Title II (P.L. 480). In the FY 2003 request, the
CSH activities have been folded into one Development Assistance account. The
tables follow USAID funding from the overall account summaries to the individual
country program levels. There are differences between some of the tables because
of the alternative budget concepts being presented.
Each table describes funding from one of several approaches. New budget
authority
(also referred to as new obligational authority or NOA) refers to the funding
levels appropriated by Congress in a given year after certain legislatively-mandated
transfers or rescissions. For the actual results of the prior year, total
budget authority (BA) refers to the new budget authority plus reappropriations
(such as deobligations and reobligations) and transfers. The program level (or
obligation level) is the same as the total BA plus obligations of unobligated
balances
carried over from prior years less unobligated balances carried into subsequent
years. Funds appropriated are not always obligated within the same year if
they are available for more than one year, which is the case for the DA, CSH,
ESF,
AEEB and FSA accounts.
DA and CSH account levels for FYs 2001 and 2002 in these tables represent
levels which include congressionally-mandated transfers to the Inter-American
Foundation, the African Development Foundation, and UNICEF.
On all tables amounts shown for FY 2004 represent proposed new budget authority
(or the request level), which assumes no unobligated balances from prior years.
International Affairs Budget Authority Tracker - FYs 2001-2004 (Table
1)
Programs and activities within the International Affairs 150 Account fall under the jurisdiction of three appropriation subcommittees. Table 1 shows the 150 account subdivided according to subcommittee jurisdiction (Foreign Operations, Agriculture, and Commerce/Justice/State) for FYs 2001 through 2004.
- Foreign Operations contains most of the programs under subfunction
151(International Development and Humanitarian Assistance) including USAID-administered
DA and humanitarian assistance, and subfunction 152 (International Security
Assistance) including USAID-administered ESF programs. Other programs in the
Foreign Operations classification include multilateral assistance, other bilateral
assistance agencies such as the Trade and Development Agency, the Peace Corps,
and the African Development Foundation, plus Military Assistance, and Export-Import
Bank contributions. It also includes State Department accounts for counter-narcotics
efforts, refugee assistance, and anti-terrorism assistance.
- The Agriculture portion of the 150 Account refers principally to the
food assistance provided under P.L. 480 which is appropriated to the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA), but, in the case of Title II, is managed by USAID.
- The Commerce/Justice/State portion of the budget reflects Department
of State administrative operations, the operations of the former United States
Information Agency (USIA) and other public information programs,and assessed
contributions to international organizations.
Table 1 shows discretionary new budget authority levels for FYs 2001 and 2002,and the request levels for FY 2003 and FY 2004.
Illustrative Breakout of FY 2004, FY2003 and FY 2002 USAID Pillars and Programs of Special Interest (Tables 2A, 2B, and 2C)
These tables include all USAID-managed program accounts, including those co-managed with the State Department. (It excludes accounts covering administrative expenses). Program funds are broken out by the agency’s three program pillars and then further broken down by programs of special interest.
Development Assistance and Child Survival and Health Programs Fund Accounts by Pillars, Sectors, Special Interests (Tables 3A and 3B)
These tables are similar to Table 2, but cover only the programs funded under the DA and CSH accounts and cover the four-year period of FY 2001-FY 2004.
USAID Country Allocation Summary - Appropriated Levels: FYs 2001-2004 (Tables4A, 4B, 4C and 4D).
These tables show appropriated levels for FY 2001 and FY 2002, and the requested appropriations for FY 2003 FY 2004.
The appropriations tables show the levels by bureau and country for CSH, DA,ESF, AEEB, FSA, and P.L. 480 accounts.
Appropriated levels are those enacted by the Congress and do not include carryover amounts, transfers or funds available under the deobligation/reobligation authority.
USAID Country Allocation Summary - Program (Obligation) Levels: FYs 2001-2002 (actuals) - (Tables 5A and 5B).
These tables show the program level (obligations) by bureau and country for CSH, DA, ESF, AEEB and FSA. The PL 480 data, however, are the same as in the appropriation spigots.
Tables 5A and 5B represent new budget authority plus any country allocations of prior year funds which are known at this time. (Not all of the unobligated prior year funds are allocated to specific countries at this time).
The program level tables for FY 2001 and FY 2002 are included because the obligated level is considered to be the most complete picture of assistance actually provided to a particular recipient in a given year.
P.L. 480 Spigots - Title II Dollars and Tonnage (Tables 6A and 6B)
USAID is responsible for the administration and implementation of P.L. 480Title II. Table 6A shows actual program levels for FYs 2001-2002, estimated levels for FY 2003 and the FY 2004 request for transport, voluntary agencies(Volags), the World Food Program (WFP), and the International Emergency Food Reserve. Table 6B reflects tonnage amounts.
Office of Transition Initiatives (Table 7) This table covers FYs 2001-2004 and breaks out actual or proposed transition assistance funding levels by country.
For a printable version of this section, that includes the charts and graphs from the Congressional Budget Justification FY 2004, please click here. (Note: This file is in pdf format.)
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