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Note: This document may not always reflect the actual appropriations determined by Congress. Final budget allocations for USAID's programs are not determined until after passage of an appropriations bill and preparation of the Operating Year Budget (OYB).

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Europe and New Independent States

(ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS)

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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