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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
FACT SHEET
WASHINGTON, DC 20523
PRESS OFFICE
http://www.usaid.gov
(202) 712-43202001-082
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2001
Contact: Novia Plummer
(in thousands)
Budget FY2000 (actual) FY2001 (estimate) FY2002 (request) PL 480, Title II $1,821 $4,051 $2,390 Democracy and Human Rights Fund $ 60 $ 50 TBD Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance $ 114 TBD TBD Special Self-Help Fund $ 100 $ 87 TBD Total $2,095 $4,188 $2,390 USAID HISTORY
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) began its development assistance to Mauritania in 1954 for one year, then resumed funding in 1960. Since 1995, USAID no longer has a mission in Mauritania. Its programs are monitored from the USAID/Senegal mission in Dakar.
CURRENT USAID PROGRAMS
Anti-poverty program: Micro-enterprise development activities are an important component of this program. It also involves building cisterns and creating local water management committees with the goal of improving access by poor families to clean water supplies at a reduced cost.
Democracy and human rights fund: USAID supports a small grants program which provides technical assistance through indigenous organizations that implement small, short-term, highly targeted country-level activities in support of human rights and democratic institutions.
Famine Early Warning System: This activity, called FEWS NET, focuses on improving the quality and effectiveness of information and response planning systems that contribute directly to drought preparedness. FEWS NET is used for planning long-run food strategies, contingency planning, and planning responses to direct threats. The FEWS activity also relates to USAID's environment interests in reducing threats to sustainable development posed by climate change by increasing preparedness for natural disasters.
Maternal and child health: This program aims to improve the nutritional status of malnourished pre-school children and to improve mothers' health knowledge and practice.
Locust control: USAID works to provide emergency assistance to strengthen capacity for surveying, monitoring, and controlling grasshoppers, locusts, and other emergency outbreak pests and to avert the economic and social problems associated with these pests. To facilitate these activities, training, equipment, and materials such as radios, computers, and global positioning systems are provided.
Special self-help fund: The special-self help fund supports community-based development activities, such as funding wells or classrooms that have an immediate impact.
Produced June 2001
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