PROGRAMMING 2
WORKING WITH OTHERS 2
OFFICE POLITICS 2
KNOW YOUR AGENCY 2
COOL STUFF USAID HAS DONE 2
100
USAID provided assistance to this Central American country totaling $373 million during Hurricane Mitch in 1988, and Tropical Storm Ida in 2011.
What is El Salvador?
100
In September of 2015, USAID’s Acting Administrator signed a Memorandum of Understanding with this Asian country’s Minister of Commerce to enhance coordination in development matters.
What is China?
100
The Bureau for Foreign Assistance was created in this year.
What is 2006?
100
Of .19%, 1.9%, or 19%, this is the amount of foreign assistance (as a percentage of GNI) that was provided by the United States in 2014.
.19%
100
Feed the Future, led by USAID, contributed to a 33% decrease in stunting between 2008 and 2015 in this West African country.
What is Ghana?
200
Of 24, 124, or 224, USAID completed this many impact evaluations in FY2014.
What are 224 evaluations worldwide.
200
USAID partnered with this organization in 2009 to form the Forest Legality Alliance to curtail illegal logging
What is the World Resources Institute?
200
This is the Agency’s newest regional office.
What is the Office for Afghanistan and Pakistan (OAPA)?
200
This USAID Administrator described the Agency staff as “over age, over rank, overpaid and over here.”
Who is John Gilligan?
200
Of 5%, 15%, or 55%, average incomes of Feed the Future beneficiaries in Honduras increased by this much.
55%
300
Of 50, 100, or 150, this is the approximate number of countries where USAID has programs.
What is 100?
300
During this 2015 conference in New York City, USAID hosted an event on ending extreme poverty that was attended by other donors and government representatives from around the world.
What is the U.N. General Assembly?
300
This USAID bureau works with State to manage the EC-LEDS program, which helps countries transition to climate-resilient, low-emission, sustainable economic development.
What is E3?
300
This Presidentially-appointed board advises USAID on agriculture and higher education issues pertinent to food insecurity in developing countries.
What is the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)?
300
In Uganda, USAID is partnering with farmers to make this tasty starch more widely available in order to reduce Vitamin A deficiency.
What are orange-fleshed sweet potatoes?
400
USAID’s Water and Sanitation Strategy is geared towards these two vitally important ways in which people use water.
What are health and food?
400
USAID collaborates with the State Department on this Presidential initiative, which aims to help tomorrow’s African leaders create positive change in their communities.
What is the Young African Leadership Initiative?
400
Maybe a pub game in the UK, but USAID uses these to respond to emergency situations, like the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
What are DARTs (Disaster Assistance Response Team)?
400
USAID’s foreign assistance programs are designed with two types of stakeholders in mind: Supply side, which consists of the state, and demand-side, which includes this group.
What is civil society?
400
USAID’s 2005 post-earthquake response in this Asian country was considered to be uniquely effective at the time due to the Agency’s efforts to bring in the voices of community stakeholders.
What is Pakistan?
500
USAID recently mandated that this cross-cutting sector be integrated into all future programming.
What is gender?
500
USAID collaborates with expatriates (also known as this term) on a variety of levels to help promote development in their home countries.
What are diasporas?
500
Of the E&E or Asia Bureau, the former Soviet ‘-stan’ countries are based here.
What is the Asia Bureau?
500
This multilateral donor is also USAID’s largest vendor.
What is the World Bank Group?
500
USAID has been a leader in working with businesses to promote mutual areas of development, a collaboration that is called this.
What are public-private partnerships?