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Within the federal budget, we focus our attention on what is called the "150 Account" -- the International Affairs Budget -- which is largely funded through the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill. Within the International Affairs Budget are separate budgets that fund "Poverty-Focused Development Assistance,” or PFDA for short.
These programs, often implemented by secular and faith-based NGOs help lift millions of people out of hunger, poverty, and disease around the world. They provide humanitarian relief during natural and man-made disasters, and long term solutions to that move families and whole countries from need to independence. The work takes a wide variety of forms—agricultural development, nutrition, refugee assistance, emergency disaster assistance, maternal/child health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, and more.
PFDA programs are overseen by federal government agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, the Department of Agriculture, and others.
Here are just a few examples of PFDA accounts and their lead agencies:
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of Agriculture
These programs, often implemented by secular and faith-based NGOs help lift millions of people out of hunger, poverty, and disease around the world. They provide humanitarian relief during natural and man-made disasters, and long term solutions to that move families and whole countries from need to independence. The work takes a wide variety of forms—agricultural development, nutrition, refugee assistance, emergency disaster assistance, maternal/child health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, and more.
PFDA programs are overseen by federal government agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, the Department of Agriculture, and others.
Here are just a few examples of PFDA accounts and their lead agencies:
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Development Assistance: Builds long‐term, sustainable capacity, such as improvements in agriculture, safe reliable water, and basic education and training.
- Example: Supporting smallholder farmers through distributing high‐quality seeds and fertilizer, and connecting farmers to storage facilities and markets so they can more easily transport and sell their products, enabling them to receive higher prices for their crops.
- Global Health Programs: Expands basic health services and strengthens national health systems to improve people's health, especially that of women, children, and vulnerable populations.
- Example: Training community health workers on prevention and treatment of basic birth complications to drastically reduce the rate of mother and infant deaths during childbirth.
U.S. Department of State
- Migration and Refugee Assistance: Responds to needs of refugees by protecting people from conflict, providing humanitarian relief, and promoting sustainable solutions through established organizations.
- Example: Providing safe shelter, food, clean water, education, and job training to assist refugees of conflicts such as those in Syria, Central African Republic, and Afghanistan.
- Example: Providing safe shelter, food, clean water, education, and job training to assist refugees of conflicts such as those in Syria, Central African Republic, and Afghanistan.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
- McGovern-Dole Food for Education program: Supports education, child development and food security.
- Example: Providing food assistance through school feeding operations
- Example: Providing food assistance through school feeding operations