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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Scott Radloff, Office of Population, Bureau for Global Health, USAID, USAID, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20523-3601, 202 712 0855, sradloff@usaid.gov and Barbara Seligman, Office of Population, Global Bureau, USAID, Department of State, Washington, DC 20523.
USAID is the largest bilateral donor of population assistance. In FY2002, USAID programmed nearly $450 million of population assistance in programs in more than 50 countries. Decisions about the allocation of population resources are influenced by many different concerns of which programmatic priority is but one. For example, in FY02 the Manager’s Report called for $53 million of the $450 million in population assistance to be programmed in countries eligible to receive Economic Support Funds [ESF]. Only certain countries that are considered to represent high foreign policy priorities for the United States government are eligible to receive ESF funds, whether designated for population, health or any other activity. Programmatic priorities, for example, the degree to which individuals express unmet needs for family planning, do not enter into the decision about the allocation of ESF population resources.
Recognizing the many other considerations that affect the distribution of the United States’ development assistance, the Office of Population has used the discretion it has to better rationalize the allocation of population funds. In this presentation we present both the broader considerations that affect the allocation of population funds and the analysis that is used by the Office to allocate those resources over which it has full discretion.
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Keywords: Population, Policy/Policy Development
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Disclosure not received
Relationship: Not Received.