{"id":325705,"date":"2025-02-04T18:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=325705"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:14:36","slug":"united-states-agency-for-international-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/united-states-agency-for-international-development\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Agency for International Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has come under intense scrutiny and is facing potential shutdown as part of the Trump administration\u2019s broader efforts to restructure and reduce federal government spending.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About United States Agency for International Development (USAID)<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325757\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-325757\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USAID.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"USAID\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USAID.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USAID.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USAID.png?w=748&amp;ssl=1 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span>United States Agency for International Development (USAID)<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the primary <em><strong>international humanitarian and development agency<\/strong><\/em> of the U.S. government.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <em><strong>established\u00a0in 1961<\/strong><\/em> by <strong><em>President John F. Kennedy<\/em><\/strong> through an executive order to implement the <em><strong>Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Its <em><strong>purpose<\/strong><\/em> is to provide assistance to strategically important countries, lead US effort to alleviate poverty, disease, and humanitarian need; assist developing countries economic growth.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USAID <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provides assistance to <em><strong>around<\/strong><\/em><\/span><em><strong>\u00a0130 countries.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <em><strong>over 10,000 employees<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with two-thirds stationed overseas, plus additional institutional contractors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>It works in collaboration<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0with <\/span>NGOs, foreign governments, international organizations<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and U.S. agencies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has come under intense scrutiny and is facing potential shutdown as part of the Trump administration\u2019s broader efforts to restructure and reduce federal government spending. About United States Agency for International Development (USAID) The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the primary international humanitarian&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/united-states-agency-for-international-development\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">United States Agency for International Development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039],"tags":[12054,10500],"class_list":["post-325705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}