USAID People
Budget Terms
Mission Geography
Systems
Acronyms
100

The Administrator for USAID

Who is Samantha Power?

100

A commitment creating legal liability for the government to pay for goods or services ordered or received

What is an obligation?

100

This mission in the Bureau for Latin America & the Caribbean is comprised of six countries

What is Eastern & Southern Caribbean (ESC)?

100

The system in which the use of "pandemic ordered telework" was recently decommissioned

What is WebTA?

100

OE

What are Operating Expenses?

200

The Assistant Administrator for the M Bureau

Who is Colleen Allen?

200

It begins on October 1st and ends on September 30 each year

What is a fiscal year?

200

The Capitol of Burkina Faso

What is Ouagadougou?

200

The Official Accounting System for USAID

What is Phoenix?

200

OYB

What is an Operating Year Budget?

300

The Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Who is Neneh Diallo?

300

An act providing budget authority for federal agencies to continue operation when Congress & the President haven't completed action on a regular appropriation by the start of the FY

What is a Continuing Resolution or a "CR"?

300

This regional mission office is in Accra, Ghana

What is the West Africa Regional or West Africa Regional Platform (WARP)?

300

This HCTM system is where staff need to sign telework agreements and submit their telework training certificates

What is Launchpad?

300

PEPFAR

What is the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief?

400

The Deputy Administrator for Management & Resources

Who is Paloma Adams-Allen?

400

The issuance of checks, disbursement of cash,  or electronic funds transfer made to liquidate a federal obligation

What is an outlay?

400

Carthage, the capitol city of the ancient Carthaginian Civilization is within this mission country in the Middle East Bureau

What is Tunisia?

400

System in which organizations need to register in order to do business with the U.S. Government

What is SAM (System for Award Management)?

400

RISE

What is a Respectful, Inclusive, & Safe Environment?

500

The Assistant Administrator for Global Health

Who is Atul Gawande?

500

An act in which the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) distributes amounts available for obligation

What is an apportionment?

500

This mission country in the Bureau for Asia became an independent nation on May 20, 2002 and was previously colonized by Portugal

What is Timor Leste or East Timor?

500

A procurement system that automates the procurement process

What is GLAAS (Global Acquisition and Assistance System)?

500

ICASS

What is International Cooperative Administrative Support Services?