SOME COMMON ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

Bureau for Africa

AALC - African-American Labor Center
ACDI - Agriculture Cooperative Development International
ADEA - Association for the Development of Education in Africa
AELGA - Africa Emergency Locust/Grasshopper Assistance
AFDB - African Development Bank
AFDF - Africa Development Fund
AFSI - Africa Food Security Initiative
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIDSCAP - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Control and Prevention Project
AIFLD - American Institute for Free Labor Development
AOJ - Administration of Justice
ARD - Associates in Rural Development
ASARECA - Association for Strengthening of Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa
ATI - Appropriate Technology International
ATRIP - Africa Trade and Investment Pprogram
AWACS - AID Worldwide Accounting and Control System

BASIC - Basic Support for Institutionalized Child Support
BCN - Biodiversity Conservation Network
BNC - Binational Commission (U.S and South Africa)

CA - Cooperating Agency
CAMPFIRE - Communal Area Management Program for Indigenous Resources (Zimbabwe)
CARE - Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc.
CARPE - Central African Regional Program for the Environment
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDIE - Center for Development Information and Evaluation
CFA - African Financial Community
CG - Consultative Group
CGIAR - Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
CILSS - Permanent Interstate Committee for the Control of Drought in the Sahel
CLUSA - Cooperative League of the United States of America
CP - Congressional Presentation
CPP - Comprehensive Post Partum
CPR - Contraceptive Prevalence Rate
CRS - Catholic Relief Services
CRSP - Collaborative Research Support Program
CSD - Child Survival and Disease Fund
CSM - Contraceptive Social Marketing
CYP - Couple Year's Protection

DA - Development Assistance
DAC - Development Assistance Committee
DART - Disaster Assistance Response Team
DFA - Development Fund for Africa
DG - Democracy and Governance
DHRF - Democracy and Human Rights Fund
DHS - Demographic Health Survey
DPT - Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus
DWG - Democracy Working Group

EAP - Environmental Action Plan
EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC - European Community
- European Commission
ECA - Enhanced Credit Authority
ECOMOG - Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group
ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States
EDDI - Education for Development and Democracy Initiative
EG - Economic Growth
EIP - Environmental Impact Assessment
ENI - Europe and New Independent States
ENR - Environment and Natural Resources
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EPI - Expanded Program of Immunization
ERP - Economic Recovery Program
ESF - Economic Support Fund
EU - European Union

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
FEWS - Famine Early Warning System
FFP - Food for Peace
FFW - Food for Work
FP - Family Planning
FSN - Foreign Service National
FSRDF - Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund
FTA - Free Trade Area
FTZ - Free Trade Zone

G-7 - Group of Seven (leading industrialized nations consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States)
GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GCA - Global Coalition for Africa
GCC - Global Climate Change
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GHAI - Greater Horn of Africa Initiative
GHG - Green House Gas
GLI - Great Lakes Initiative
GLJI - Great Lakes Justice Initiative
GNP - Gross National Product
GMRA - Government Management Reform Act
GPRA - Government Performance Review Act (P.L. 103 - 62)
GSP - General System of Preference

HASP - Horn of Africa Support Project
HBCU - Historically Black Universities and Colleges
HG - Housing Guaranty
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HIID - Harvard Institute for International Development

IACCC - Inter-Agency Climate Change Committee
IARC - International Agricultural Research Center
IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
ICITAP - International Criminal Investigation and Training Assistance Program
ICRISAT - International Crop Research Institute for Semi - Arid Tropics
IDA - International Development Association
IEC - Information, Education and Communications
IESC - International Executive Service Corps
IFES - International Foundation for Electoral Systems
IFRC - International Federation of the Red Cross
IFI - International Financial Institute
IG - Inspector General
IGAD - Intergovernmental Authority on Development (GHAI))
ILO - International Labor Organization
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IMR - Infant Mortality Rate
IPPF - International Planned Parenthood Federation
IQ - Intelligence Quotient
IRI - International Republican Institute
ISA - Initiative for Southern Africa

LWOB - Lessons Without Borders

MCH - Maternal and Child Health
MDB - Multilateral Development Bank
MIS - Management Information System
MOA - Ministry of Agriculture
MOE - Ministry of Education
MOF - Minister of Finance
MOH - Ministry of Health
MOPH - Ministry of Public Health
MSED - Micro and Small Enterprise Development
MSH - Management Sciences for Health
MT - Metric Ton

NDI - National Democratic Institute
NED - National Endowment for Democracy
NGO - Nongovernmental Organization
NMS - New Management System
NPI - New Partnership Initiative
NPR - National Performance Review
NRM - Natural Resource Management
NTE - Non-traditional Export

ODA - Official Development Assistance
- Overseas Development Administration (British)
OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECF - Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund
OFDA - Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance/USAID
OMB - Office of Management and Budget
ORS - Oral Rehydration Salts
OTI - Office of Transition Initiative/USAID

PA - Project Assistance
PASA - Participating Agency Service Agreement
PHN - Population, Health and Nutrition
PLO - Palestinian Liberation Organization
PRIME - Program for Innovation in Microenterprise
PSC - Personal Service Contract
PVO - Private Voluntary Organization

R-4 - Results Review and Resource Requirement
RCSA - Regional Center for Southern Africa/USAID
RDA - Regional Development Account
REDSO - Regional Economic Development Support Office/USAID
RHUDO - Regional Housing and Urban Development Office/USAID
RIF - Reduction in Force
RIG - Regional Inspector General

SADC - Southern Africa Development Community
SAEDF - Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund
SAP - Structural Adjustment Program
SCF - Save the Children
SEATS - Family Planning Service Expansion and Technical Support
SME - Small and Medium Enterprises
SMME - Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
SO - Strategic Objective
SPA - Special Program of Assistance for Africa
- Small Program Assistance
SPRP - Sector Policy Reform Program
SSH - Special Self Help Program
STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease
STI - Sexually Transmitted Infection

TBD - To Be Determined
TFR - Total Fertility Rate

U5RM - Under 5 Mortality Rate
UK - United Kingdom
UN - United Nations
UNDP - United Nation Development Program
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
UNICEF - United Nations Children Fund
USAID - U.S. Agency for International Development
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USDH - United States Direct Hire
USIA - United States Information Agency

VOA - Voice of America

WAEN - West Africa Enterprise Network
WFP - World Food Program
WHO - World Health Organization
WID - Women in Development
WTO - World Trade Organization
WWF - Worldwide Fund for Nature

Y2K - Year 2000

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