USAID publications cover a range of topics. This General Publications list will be used as a first step to collecting as many USAID publications as we can and then we can easily recategorize into relevant topics. All tagging and placement in collections will follow the documents as they are recategorized.
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Menstrual Health & Hygiene: Technical Brief
Despite being a basic bodily function, menstruation has lived in the shadows across cultures, geographies, and history. In recent years, global health, international development, and women’s rights communities have increasingly recognized the role that menstruation plays in achieving their respective sector objectives, and the many ways in which menstruation can prevent people from contributing freely to their societies. Approaches to addressing menstruation have often been centered within the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector, which has resulted in a signifcant programmatic focus on access to latrines and menstrual hygiene products. Eforts from the WASH sector have made signifcant contributions to advance menstrual equity, but alone are insufcient. Holistic MHH interventions require multi-sectoral approaches that combine efforts from the health, education, gender,humanitarian protection , and WASH sectors to address the physical, emotional, economic, and social challenges related to menstruation and to meet the needs of all menstruatorsacross their life cycles. To maximize the impact of MHH investments, USAID staf and partners should consider several cross-cutting issues in activity design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and research, including: products and waste management, governance, social support, social and behavior change (SBC), and positive youth development (PYD).
USAID Mental Health Position Paper
Mental health encompasses emotional, cognitive, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how humans think, feel, learn, work, make decisions, and build relationships. The importance of mental health to individual well-being, as well as to social and economic progress, is becoming more widely recognized.1 Mental health affects physical health (including nutrition, substance abuse, outcomes for infectious diseases, and incidence of noncommunicable diseases); child health and development; education outcomes; and workforce participation, among others. Evidence also shows that mental health conditions are higher among populations exposed to environmental stressors such as extreme poverty; war and conflict; food insecurity; high levels of community violence, including gender-based violence (GBV); and stigma and discrimination.2,3,4 Crucially, mental health also affects service providers, community workers, and activists who drive development progress. Taken together with the growing evidence of an emergent global mental health crisis,5,6,7,8 these factors make it clear that mental health is intricately tied to USAID’s ability to meet its development objectives across sectors and should be seen as an intersectional priority for the Agency.
USAID Terminated Awards
A description of the USAID Terminated Awards.
Program Cycle Operational Policy - 20-03-2024
USAID, Revised 2024
The Program Cycle is USAID’s operational model for planning, delivering, assessing, and adapting development programming in a given region or country to advance U.S. foreign policy. It encompasses guidance and procedures for:
1) Making strategic decisions at the regional or country level about programmatic areas of focus and associated resources;
2) Designing supportive projects and/or activities to implement these strategic plans; and
3) Learning from performance monitoring, evaluations, and other relevant sources of information to make course corrections as needed and inform future programming.
Semiannual Report to Congress - March 2024 - 20-03-2024
USAID
Simply put, our goal at USAID OIG is to improve U.S. foreign assistance programmed by the agencies we oversee by providing assurances to Congress and the American people that critically important aid dollars are going where intended and having the desired impact.
Our oversight work during this reporting period tracked USAID’s major programs and initiatives. For example, we continued to prioritize USAID’s Ukraine response, expanding our on-the-ground presence in Kyiv, and issuing an evaluation of USAID’s direct budget support to the government of Ukraine administered through the World Bank. We also audited USAID’s response to the Rohingya crisis in Burma and Bangladesh and evaluated USAID’s role in evacuating aid workers during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, all while expanding our evaluation and inspection capacity.
Driving Progress Beyond Programs - 20-01-2023
USAID, March, 2023
Since USAID’s founding more than 60 years ago, we have helped tackle many of the challenges of our time. With development partners around the world, we helped lift communities out of poverty, push back against oppression, and secure peace after conflict. We helped spark the Green Revolution and avert an age of global and continuous famine. We helped eradicate smallpox, reverse the spread of AIDS, end Ebola outbreaks, lead the campaign that has nearly eradicated polio, and dramatically decrease the incidence of malaria and tuberculosis. We supported dozens of transitions from autocracy to democracy, enabled tens of millions of girls to attend school, and provided lifesaving aid to communities torn apart by disasters, wars, and other crises.
Yet despite this remarkable progress, the development challenges of today are more formidable than those the world has faced at any time since World War II, with significant implications for America’s national security. The COVID-19 pandemic caused mass devastation, resulting in millions of deaths, economic turmoil, and rising global inequality. The climate crisis bears down on us all, with particularly vicious and destabilizing impacts on those least able to withstand its effects—and least responsible for the emissions that caused it. Vladimir Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine has led to widespread misery and death and exacerbated a global food crisis to levels not seen in decades. In every region of the world, autocrats have become increasingly brazen, while democratic institutions and governance face a multitude of threats. All of these developments have combined to inflict significant economic harm on the world’s most marginalized communities.
These headwinds are occurring at a speed and scale never before witnessed, bypassing borders and affecting nations regardless of ideology or system of government. They are deeply interconnected, with climate change accelerating global hunger, the pandemic exacerbating long-standing economic challenges, and pervasive inequality contributing to democratic decline.
Artificial Intelligence Action Plan - 20-05-2022
USAID, 2022
As AI technologies are embedded and intertwined in digital ecosystems, a responsible approach to AI should include strengthening key aspects of the enabling ecosystem. This includes data systems, connectivity, and local workforce capacity. In addition, there must be a focus on strengthening the civil society structures holding AI systems and actors accountable, and shaping policy environments that in turn encourage open, inclusive, and secure digital ecosystems. Together, these investments will support governments, businesses, and individuals to sustainably and equitably benefit from the use of AI technologies
