SOME COMMON ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

Bureau for Europe and New Independent States

AAEF - Albanian-American Enterprise Fund
ABA - American Bar Association
ACDI - Agricultural Cooperative Development Institute
ADB - Asian Development Bank
ADS - Automated Directives System
AED - Academy for Educational Development
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIFLD - American Institute for Free Labor Development
AIHA - American International Health Alliance
AOJ - Administration of Justice
ASHA - American Schools and Hospital Abroad
ATI - Appropriate Technology International
AWACS - AID Worldwide Accounting and Control System

BCN - Biodiversity Conservation Network

CAAEF - Central Asian - American Enterprise Fund
CAP-Counterpart Alliance for Partnership Program
CAPEL - Center for the Promotion of Electoral Assistance
CARE - Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc.
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Citizens' Democracy Corps
CDIE - Center for Development Information and Evaluation
CEE - Central and Eastern Europe
CEELI - Central and East European Law Institute
CFO - Chief Financial Officers Act
- Chief Financial Officer
CG - Consultative Group
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research
CLD - Consortium for Legislative Development
CLUSA - Cooperative League of the United States of America
CO₂ - Carbon Dioxide
CP - Congressional Presentation
CPR - Contraceptive Prevalence Rate
CRS - Catholic Relief Services
CSM - Contraceptive Social Marketing
CSO - Civil Society Organizations

DA - Development Assistance
DAC - Development Assistance Committee
DAF - Development Assistance Fund
DAI - Development Alternatives, Inc.
DART - Disaster Assistance Response Team
DG - Democracy and Governance
DHS - Demographic Health Survey
DOE - Department of Energy
DOT - Department of Treasury

EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC - European Community
- European Commission
ECU - European Currency Unit
EMED - Entrepreneur Management and Executive Development
ENI - Europe and New Independent States
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EPRA - Economic Policy Resource Center
EIB - European Investment Bank
ESAF - Extended Structural Adjustment Facility (IMF)
ESCOs - Energy Service Companies
ESF - Economic Support Fund
EU - European Union
EU/ECHO - European Community Humanitarian Office
EU/PHARE - European Union - Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Estonia (EU's technical assistance organization for CEE countries)
EU-TACIS - European Union - Technical Assistance for the Commonwealth of Independent States

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
FDI - Foreign Direct Investment
FFP - Food for Peace
FLAG - Firm Level Assistance Group
FH - Freedom House
FH/FNN - Freedom House/National Forum Foundation
FINCA - Foundation for International Community Assistance
FREEDOM - Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992 (FREEDOM Support Act)
FSA - Freedom Support Act
FSVC - Financial Services Volunteer Corps
FTF - Farmer to Farmer Program

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
GCC - Global Climate Change
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GEF - Global Environmental Facility
GHG - Green House Gas
GIS - Geographic Information System
GNP - Gross National Product
GPRA - Government Performance Review Act (P.L. 103-62)
GSA - General Services Administration
GSP - General System of Preference
GSU - Georgia State University
GTZ - German Organization for Technical Assistance

HA - Hectare
HG - Housing Guaranty
HIID - Harvard Institute of International Development
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HMO - Health Maintenance Organization

IACCC - Inter-Agency Climate Change Committee
IARC - International Agricultural Research Center
IAS - International Accounting Standards
IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
IBTC - International Business and Technical Consultants
ICASS - International Cooperative Administrative Support Services
ICITAP - International Criminal Investigation and Training Assistance Program
ICNL - International Center for Not-For-Profit Law
IDA - International Development Association
IDP - Internally Displaced People
IESC - International Executive Service Corps
IFES - International Foundation for Electoral Systems
IFRC - International Federation of the Red Cross
IFI - International Financial Institute
IFOR - Implementation Force (NATO)
IG - Inspector General
ILO - International Labor Organization
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IREX - International Research and Exchanges Board
IRI - International Republican Institute
ISAR - Institute on Soviet-American Relations

KG - Kilogram

LG - Local Government

MCH - Maternal and Child Health
MDB - Multilateral Development Bank
MOF - Minister of Finance
MOH - Ministry of Health
MSED - Micro and Small Enterprise Development
MSH - Management Sciences for Health
MT - Metric Ton
MW - Megawatt

NACP - National AIDS Control Program
NAPA - National Academy for Public Administration
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBG - National Bank of Georgia
NCBA - National Cooperative Business Association
NDI - National Democratic Institute
NEAP - National Environmental Action Plan
NED - National Endowment for Democracy
NET - NIS Exchanges and Training Project
NGO - Nongovernmental Organization
NIH - National Institute of Health
NIS - New Independent States of the former Soviet Union
NPI - New Partnership Initiative
NPR - National Performance Review
NTA - New Transatlantic Agenda

ODA - Official Development Assistance
- Overseas Development Administration
OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OFDA - Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
OIG - Office of the Inspector General
OMB - Office of Management and Budget
OSCE - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OTI - Office of Transition Initiative

PASA - Participating Agency Service Agreement
PMTI - Presidential Management Training Initiative
PRF - International Planned Parenthood Federation
PSC - Personal Service Contract
PVO - Private Voluntary Organization
PW - Price Waterhouse

RHUDO - Regional Housing and Urban Development Office
RIG - Regional Inspector General
ROL - Rule of Law

SAI - Special Assistance Initiative
- Supreme Audit Institution
SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission
SEED - Support for East European Democracy
SET - Supreme Electoral Tribunal
SME - Small and Medium Enterprise
SO - Strategic Objective
SOE - State-Owned Enterprise

TNC - The Nature Conservancy
TR&D - Tropical Research and Development

UN - United Nations
UNDP - United Nation Development Program
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
UNHCR - United Nations High Commission for Refugees
UNHRC - United Nations Human Rights Commission
UNICEF - United Nations Children Fund
USAEP - United States-Asia Environmental Partnership Initiative
USAID - U.S. Agency for International Development
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USFDA - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
USIS - United States Information Service

VOA - Voice of America
VOCA - Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance

WFF - World Wildlife Federation
WFP - World Food Program
WHO - World Health Organization
WID - Women in Development
WOCCU - World Council of Credit Unions
WTO - World Trade Organization

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