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Abbreviations & Acronyms

A&A; Acquisition and Assistance
AACD Activity Assistance Completion Date
AAD Activity Approval Document
AAEF Albanian-American Enterprise Fund
AAFLI Asian-American Free Labor Institute
AATF African Agricultural Technology Foundation
ABA American Bar Association
ABC Abstinence, Being Failthful and Using Condom Approach
ABEL Advancing Basic Education and Literacy
ACDI Agriculture Cooperation Development International
ACDI Agricultural Cooperative Development Institute
ACI Andean Counterdrug Initiative
ACILS American Center for International Labor Solidarity
ADB Asian Development Bank
ADEA Association for the Development of Education in Africa
ADEX Exporters' Association (Peru)
ADF African Development Foundation
ADP Automated Data Processing
ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution
ADS Automated Directives System
AED Academy for Educational Development
AEEB Assistance to Eastern Europe and the Baltics
AELGA Africa Emergency Locust and Grasshopper Assistance
AERA Accelerating Economic Recovery in Asia
AFDB African Development Bank
AFDF Africa Development Fund
AG Attorney General
AGEXPRONT Nontraditional Exporters' Guild (Guatemala)
AGILE Accelerated Growth, Investment, and Liberalization with Equity
AGOA Africa Growth and Opportunities Act
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIDSCAP Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Control and Prevention Project
AIFLD American Institute for Free Labor Development
AIHA American International Health Alliance
AIN Integrated Child Care (English translation)
ALGAS Asia Least Cost Greenhouse Gas Abatement Strategy
ALO Association Liaison Office
AMIR Access to Micro-Finance and Implementation of Policy Reform
AMR Anti-Microbial Resistance
ANACAFE Guatemala' National Coffee Association
ANE Asia and Near East
ANERA American Near East Refugee Aid
AOJ Adminstration of Justice
AOJS Administration of Justice Support
APAC AIDS Prevention and Control
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
APEDA Agricultural Products Export Development Authority
APPT Abuse Prevention and Protection Team
APR Agricultural Policy Reform
APRP Agricultural Policy Reform Program
AREP Accelerated Reform for Enterprise Promotion
ARI Acute Respiratory Infection
ARV Anti-Retroviral Vaccines
ASHA American Schools and Hospitals Abroad
ATFL American Task Force in Lebanon
ATI Appropriate Technology International
ATRIP Africa Trade and Investment Program
AUB American University of Beirut
AUSAID Australia Agency for International Development
AVRDC Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center
AVSC Access for Voluntary Surgical Contraceptive
AWACS AID Worldwide Accounting and Control System
BASIC Basic Support for Institutionalized Child Support
BBSA Basic Business Skill Acquisition
BCN Biodiversity Conservation Network
BIGUF Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers Union Federation
BOD Biochemical Oxygen Demand
BOOT Build-Own-Operate-Transfer
BOT Build-Operate-Transfer
BRAC Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
BSM Business Systems Modernization
BTEC Business Transformation Executive Committee
CA Cooperating Agency
CAAEF Central Asian - American Enterprise Fund
CABEI Central American Bank for Economic Integration
CABIO Collaborative Agricultural Biotechnology Initiative
CAC Community Access Center
CACEDERF Central America and Caribbean Emergency Disaster Relief Fund
CAFTA Central America Free Trade Agreement
CAI Creative Associates Incorporated
CAIC Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce
CAMP Coastal Aquifer Management Program
CAP Counterpart Alliance for Partnership Program
CAPAS Central American Protected Areas System
CAPEL Center for the Promotion of Electoral Assistance
CARE Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc.
CAREC Caribbean Epidemiology Center
CARICOM Caribbean Community
CARPE Central African Regional Program for the Environment
CATIE Center for Tropical Agriculture Investigations and Studies
CBFRM Community-based Forest Resource Management
CBJ Congressional Budget Justification
CBNRM Community-based Natural Resource Management
CBO Community-Based Organization
CCA Clinger-Cohan Act
CCADCentral American Commission for Environment and Development
CCM Country Coordinating Mechanism
CCP Code of Criminal Procedures
CCT Cooperative Coffee Timor
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDIE Center for Development Information and Evaluation
CDO Coopeerative Development Organization
CDP Cambodian Defenders Project
CDR Cooperative Development Research Program (U.S.-Israel)
CECI Canadian Center for International Studies and Cooperation
CEDPA Center for Development and Population Activities
CEE Central and Eastern Europe
CEELI Central and East European Law Institute
CEP Community Empowerment Program
CEPAL Economic Commission for Latin America
CEPPS Consortium for Elections and Political Processes Strengthening
CERTI Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative
CETTI Centers of Excellence in Teacher Training Initiative
CEWARN Conflict Early Warning Network
CFET Consolidated Fund for East Timor
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CG Consultative Group
CGAP Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest
CGIAR Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CHF Cooperative Housing Foundation
CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
CIF Capital Investment Fund
CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research
CILSS Permanent Interstate Committee for the Control of Drought in the Sahel
CIMMY International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
CIP Commodity Import Program
CIT Communities in Transition
CITES Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species
CLD Consortium for Legislative Development
CLD/SUNY Center for Legislative Development, State University of New York, Albany
CLDP Commercial Law Development Program
CLUSA Cooperative League of the United States of America
CMM Conflict Management and Mitigation
CMM Country Coordinating Mechanisn
CMR Child Mortality Rate
CMS Commercial Markets Strategy
CNG Compressed Natural Gas
CO2 Carbon Dioxide
COE Council of Europe
COEN El Salvador Disaster Preparedness Organization
COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
COMURES Corporation of Municipalities in El Salvador
CONRED National Disaster Coordinating Committee (Guatemala)
CONTIERRA Land Conflict Resolution Commission (Guatemala)
COOP Continuity of Operations
COP Community of Practice
COTS Commercial off the Shelf
CP Congressional Presentation (now Congressional Budget Justification)
CPA Coalition Provisional Authority (Iraq)
CPIC Capital Planning and Investment Control
CPP Comprehensive Post Partum Center
CPR Contraceptive Prevalence Rate
CRM Coastal Resources Management
CRS Catholic Relief Services
CRSP Collaborative Research Support Program
CSD Child Survival and Diseases Fund (now Child Survival and Health Program Fund)
CSD Commission on Sustainable Development
CSE Colombo Stock Exchange
CSG Council of State Governments
CSH Child Survival and Health Programs Fund
CSM Contraceptive Social Marketing
CSO Civil Society Organization
CSW Commercial Sex Workers
CT Cash Transfer
CVA Conflict Vulnerability Assessment
CWS Church World Services
CY Calendar Year
CYP Couple-Years' Protection
DA Development Assistance
DAC Development Assistance Committee (OECD)
DAF Development Assistance Fund
DAI Development Alternatives International
DAP Development Activity Proposal
DART Disaster Assistance Response Team
DBO Design-Build-Operate
DCA Development Credit Authority
DCHA Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Bureau (USAID)
DCOF Displaced Children and Orphans Fund
DCP Development Credit Program
DEVTA Deworming and Enhanced Vitamin A
DFA Development Fund for Africa
DfID Department for International Development, United Kingdom
DG Democracy and Governance
DH Direct Hire
DHHS Department of Health and Human Services
DHRF Democracy and Human Rights Fund
DHS Demographic Health Survey
DIET District Institute of Education and Training
DIMS Democratic Indicators Monitoring Survey
DOD Department of Defense, U.S. Government
DOE Department of Energy, U.S. Government
DOJ Department of Justice, U.S. Government
DOP Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Governing Arrangement
DOS Department of State, U.S. Government
DOT Department of Treasury, U.S. Government
DOTS Directly Observed Therapy, Short Course
DP Democracy Partnership
DPEP District Primary Education Program
DPT Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus
DPT3 Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus Immunization Series
DRG Diagnostic -Related Group
DRI Development Readiness Initiative (USAID)
DRI Diplomatic Readiness Initiative (Department of State)
DRP Demobilization and Rehabilitation Program (World Bank)
DSP Development Support Program
DTT Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
DVS Democratic Values Survey
EA Enterprise Architecture
EA Environmental Assessment
EAC East African Community
EAGER Equity and Growth through Economic Research
EAI Enterprise for the Americas Initiative
EAP Environmental Action Plan
EAPEI East Asia and Pacific Environmental Initiative
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC European Community
ECEP Energy Conservation and Environment Project
ECHO European Commission Humanitarian Organization
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ECOMOG Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
ECU European Currency Unit
EDDI Education for Development and Democracy Initiative
EE Europe and Eurasia
EE Emergency and Evacuation
EEAA Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency
EEDC Economic Entrepreneurial Development Center
EEHC Electricity Holding Company
EEPP Egypt Environmental Policy Program
EG Economic Growth
EGAT Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade Bureau (USAID)
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
EIB European Investment Bank
EMED Entrepreneur Management and Executive Development
EMPS Environment Managed for Prosperity and Sustainability
ENI Europe and New Independent States (now Europe and Eurasia)
ENR Environment and Natural Resources
EO Executive Order
EPA Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Government
EPI Expanded Program of Immunization
EPRA Economic Policy Resource Center
EPSP Economic Policy Support Project
ERF Emergency Response Fund
ESAF Extended Structural Adjustment Facility (International Monetary Fund)
ESCOs Energy Service Companies
ESEG Energy Security for Economic Growth
ESF Economic Support Fund
ETU Egyptian Technology University
EU European Union
EU/PHARE European Union - Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Estonia
FANTA Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations)
FAR Fixed Amount Reimbursable
FBO Faith-Based Organzation
FDA Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Government
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Government
FEWS Famine Early Warning System
FFMIA Federal Financial Management Improvement Act
FFP Food for Peace
FFW Food for Work
FH Freedom House
FH/FNN Freedom House/National Forum Foundation
FIAS Foreign Investment Advisory Service
FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
FINCA Foundation for International Community Assistance
FLAG Firm Level Assistance Group
FMIP Financial Management Improvement Act
FORWARD Fostering Resolution of Water Resources Disputes
FP Family Planning
FREEDOM Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992 (FREEDOM Support Act)
FRM Forest Resources Management
FSAFREEDOM Support Act
FSI Financial Systems Integration
FSO Foreign Service Officer
FSVC Financial Services Volunteer Corps
FTA Free Trade Agreement
FTAA Free Trade Area of the Americas
FTE Full Time Equivalency
FtF Farmer to Farmer Program
FWWB Friends of Women's World Banking
FY Fiscal Year
G-8 Group of Eight (leading industrialized nations consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States)
GAI Global AIDS Initiative
GAIN Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
GAO General Accounting Office
GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GCA Global Coalition for Africa
GCC Global Climate Change
GDA Global Development Alliance
GDF Global Drug Facility
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GEF Global Environment Facility
GESAMP Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection
GESI Global Environmental Sanitation Initiative
GFATM Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
GH Global Health Bureau (USAID)
GHAI Greater Horn of Africa Initiative
GHG Greenhouse Gas
GIE Gaza Industrial Estate
GIN Greening of Industry Network
GIS Geographic Information System
GLI Great Lakes Initiative
GLJI Great Lakes Justice Initiative
GNP Gross National Product
GPA Global Program of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Landing-based Activities
GPRA Government Performance and Results Act (P.L. 103-62)
GREGI Gobi Regional Growth Initiative
GSA General Services Administration
GSP General System of Preference
GSU Georgia State University
GTN Global Technology Network
GTZ German Agency for Technical Cooperation
HA Hectare
HBCUs Historically Black Colleges and Universities
HCC Historical Clarification Commission
HG Housing Guaranty
HIID Harvard Institute of International Development
HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HKI Helen Keller International
HMHC Health Maintenance and Health Care
HMO Health Maintenance Organization
HPSP Health Policy Support Program
HRC Human Rights Commission
IACCC Inter-Agency Climate Change Committee
IAF Inter-American Development Foundation
IARC International Agricultural Research Center
IAS International Accounting Standards
IAVI International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
IBRA Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
IBTC International Business and Technical Consultants
ICASS International Cooperative Administrative Support Services
ICDDR Internatioonal Center for Diarrheal Disease Reasearch
ICDS Integrated Child Development Services
ICICI Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
ICITAP International Criminal Investigation and Training Assistance Program
ICLARM International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management
ICNL International Center for Not-For-Profit Law
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
ICZM Integrated Coastal Zone Management
ID Infectious Diseases
IDA International Development Assistance
IDA International Disaster Assistance (now International Disaster and Famine Assistance)
IDB Inter-American Development Bank
IDE International Development Enterprises
IDEE Institution for Democracy in Eastern Europe
IDFA International Disaster and Famine Assistance
IDP Internally Displaced Person
IDSR Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response
IEC Information, Education and Communication
IESC International Executive Service Corps
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFC International Finance Corporation
IFDC International Fertilizer Development Center
IFES International Foundation for Electoral Systems
IFESH International Foundation for Education and Self Help
IFI International Financial Institute
IFPP International Relief Partnership Program
IFOR Implementation Force (NATO)
IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute
IFPS Innovations in Family Planning Services
IFRC International Federation of the Red Cross
IG Inspector General
IHE-Delft International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic, and Environmental Engineering
IHRIG International Human Rights Law Group
IIDH Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
ILO International Labor Organization
ILRF International Labor Rights Fund
ILSI International Life Sciences Institute
IMCI Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
IMET International Military Education and Training
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMR Integrated Managing for Results
IMR Infant Mortality Rate
IMT Irrigation Management Transfer
INC International Narcotics Control (State Department)
INCLEN International Clinical Epidemiology Network
INDRA Indonesia Debt Restructuring Agency
INL International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (State Department)
IO International Organization
IOM International Organization for Migration
IPEC International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor
IPO International Public Organization
IPPF International Planned Parenthood Federation
IPR Intellectual Property Rights
IQC Indefinite Quantity Contract
IR Intermediate Result
IRDP Integrated Rural Development Program
IREX International Research and Exchanges Board
IRI International Republican Institute
IRIS Center for Institutional Reform in the Informal Sector
IRM Information Resource Management
IRRF Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund
ISA Initiative for Southern Africa
ISAR Institute on Soviet - American Relations
ISBO Institutional Strengthening for Business Opportunities
ISO International Export Standard
IT Information Technology
ITSH Internal Transport, Shipping and Handling
IUD Inter-Uterine Device
IVCHS Improved Village and Community Health Service Program
IVS International Voluntary Services
JAFPP Jordan Association of Family Planning
JBIC Japanese Bank for International Development
JFMIP Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
JHPIEGO Johns Hopkins Program Providing Reproductive Health
JHU/PCS Johns Hopkins University/Population Communication Services
JICA Japanese International Cooperation Agency
JSI John Snow Incorporation
JUSBP Jordan U.S. Business Partnership
JVA Jordan Valley Authority
JWC Joint Water Committee
KfD Knowledge for Development
KG Kilogram
KHANA Khmer HIV/AIDS Alliance
LAC Latin America and the Caribbean
LAF Lebanese Armed Forces
LAU Lebanese American University
LC Local Currency
LE Egyptian Pound
LEB Locally Elected Body
LEWS Livestock Early Warning System
LGU Local Government Unit
LMI Lower-Middle-Income
LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam
LWVF Patrick J. Leahy War Victims Fund
M Management Bureau (USAID)
MACS Mission Accounting and Control System
MAFF Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries
MAI Multilateral Assistance Initiative
MAP Market Access Program
MAP Morocco Agribusiness Promotion
MBA Masters of Business Administration
MBIT Masters of Business in Information Technology
MCA Millennium Challenge Account
MCC Millennium Challenge Corporation
MCEI Municipal Coastal Environmental Initiative
MCH Maternal and Child Health
MCM Million Cubic Meters
MDB Multilateral Development Bank
M&E; Monitoring and Evaluation
MEA Middle East and North Africa
MEG Morocco Education for Girls
MEPI Middle East Partnership Initiative
MERC Middle East Regional Cooperation
MES Mongolian Energy Sector Project
MFA Microenterprise Finance
MFI Microfinance Institution
MHO Mutual Health Organizations
MILGP Military Group
MINUGUA United Nations Verification Mission for Guatemala
MIS Management Information System
MMR Maternal Mortality Rate
MNE Ministry of National Education
MNLF Moro National Liberation Front
MOA Ministry of Agriculture
MOE Ministry of Education
MOE Ministry of Environment
MOEYS Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
MOF Minister of Finance
MOH Ministry of Health
MOHHC Ministry of Health and Health Care
MOHP Ministry of Health and Population
MOJ Ministry of Justice
MOLG Ministry of Local Government
MOMRA Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs
MOPH Ministry of Public Health
MOST Micronutrient Operational Strategies and Technologies
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MP Member of Parliament
MPF Multiproject Financing Facility
MPM Management Policy and Metrics
MPMS Management Policy and Metrics Staff
MPP Mission Performance Plan
MPRP Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
MSE Micro and Small Enterprises
MSED Micro and Small Enterprise Development
MSH Management Sciences for Health
MSME Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise
MT Metric Tons
MTCT Mother-to-Child Transmission
MTT Mobile Task Team
MVCS Most Valuable Companies
MW Megawatt
MWI Ministry of Water and Irrigation
NA Not applicable, or Not Available
NACP National AIDS Control Program
NAMRU-3 Naval Medical Research Unit
NAPA National Academy for Public Administration
NAS Narcotic Affairs Section (State Department)
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA National Association of State Development Agencies
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBG National Bank of Georgia
NCBA National Cooperative Business Association
NCJS National Center for Judicial Studies
NDI National Democratic Institute
NEAP National Environmental Action Plan
NED National Endowment for Democracy
NED New Enterprise Development
NEP New Entry Professional
NEPAD New Partnership for Africa's Development
NET NIS Exchanges and Training
NFALP Non-Formal and Adult Literacy Program
NFC National Finance Center
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NID National Immunization Day
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIS New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (now Independent States of the Former Soviet Union)
NMS New Management System
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NORAD Norwegian Aid
NPA Non-Project Assistance
NPI New Partnership Initiative
NPR National Performance Review
NRECA National Rural Electric Cooperative Administration
NRM Natural Resources Management
NTA New Transatlantic Agenda
NTE Non-Traditional Export
NTFP Non-Traditional Forest Products
NWI Ministry of Water and Irrigation
OAS Organization of American States
OAU Organization of African Unity
ODA Official Development Assistance
OE Operation Expenses
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECF Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund
OECS Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
OFDA Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID)
OHCHR Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (United Nations)
OIG Office of the Inspector General (USAID)
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPIC Overseas Private Investment Corporation
OPIN Online Presidential Initiatives Network
OPV Oral Polio Vaccine
ORS Oral Rehydration Salts
ORS/T Oral Rehydration Salts/Therapy
ORT Oral Rehydration Therapy
OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OTI Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID)
OVC Orphans and Vulnerable Children
PA Palestinian Authority
PACD Project Assistance Completion Date
PACT Private Agencies Collaborating Together
PACT Program for the Advancement of Commercial Technology
PAHO Pan American Health Organization
PAL Planning, Achievement, and Learning
PART Program Assessment and Rating Tool
PASA Participating Agency Service Agreement
PATH Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health
PC Palestinian Council
PDF Power Development Fund
PED Provincial Environment Departments
PERPP Public Enterprise Reform and Privatization Program
PEPFAR President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
PES Policy Environment Score
PHC Primary Health Care
PHCI Primary Health Care Initiative
PHN Population, Health and Nutrition
PIEFZA Palestinian Industrial and Free Zone Authority
PIL Public Interest Litigation
PIP Parks in Peril
PIPA Palestinian Investment and Promotion Agency
PL Public Law
PLANTE National Alternative Development Plan (Colombia)
PLC Palestinian Legislative Council
PLN Indonesian National Electric Company
PLO Palestinian Liberation Organization
PMA Palestinian Monetary Authority
PMA President's Management Agenda
PMC Pune Municipal Corporation
PMO Program Management Office
PMP Performance Monitoring Plan
PMTCT Prevention of Mother-to-Child AIDS Transmission
PMTI Presidential Management Training Initiative
PNFPP Philippine National Family Planning Program
POP Persistent Organic Pollutant
PPC Policy and Program Coordination Bureau (USAID)
PPG7 Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rainforest, Group of 7
PREAL Program for Education Reform in the Americas
PRIME Program for Innovation in Microenterprise
PRIME Primary Providers' Training and Education in Reproduction
PRM Population, Refugees, and Migration (State Department)
PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
PSC Personal Service Contract
PSI Population Services International
PSIP Procurement System Improvement Project
PSO Private Sector Organization
PVC Private Voluntary Cooperation
PVO Private and Voluntary Organization
PW Price-Waterhouse
PWA Palestinian Water Authority
PWC Price Waterhouse Coopers
QCHT Quality Control of Health Technologies
QIZ Qualifying Industrial Zones
RACHA Reproductive and Child Health Alliance
RCSA Regional Center for Southern Africa (USAID)
RCSP Rural Civil Society Program
RDS Regional Development and Support
REDSO Regional Economic Development Support Office (USAID)
RH Reproductive Health
RHUDO Regional Housing and Urban Development Office (USAID)
RIG Regional Inspector General (USAID)
ROL Rule of Law
ROT Rehabilitate-Operate-Transfer
RRB Regional Rural Banks
RSD Regional Sustainable Development Office (USAID)
RTI Research Triangle Institute
RTII Regional Trade and Investment Initiative
SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
SADC Southern Africa Development Community
SAEDF Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund
SAGA Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access
SAGE Strategies for Advancing Girls Education
SAI Special Assistance Initiative
SARI South Asia Regional Initiative
SCA Supreme Council for Antiquities
SDF Special Development Fund
SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission
SEED Support for East European Democracy
SEI State Environmental Initiative
SEP Senior Executive Program
SET Supreme Electoral Tribunal
SIGN Safe Injection Global Network
SIWM Souss-Massa Integrated Water Resources
SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
SME Small and Micro-Enterprises
SMME Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
SO Strategic Objective
SOE State-Owned Enterprise
SOW Scope of Work
SPA Special Program of Assistance
SPO Special Objective
SPR Sector Policy Reform
SPRP Sector Policy Reform Program
SPS Sanitary and Phyto-santitary Standard
SRII Standard Research Institute International
SRP Sahel Regional Program
SSH Special Self-Help Program
SSRC Social Science Research Council
SSMSC Stock Market State Commission (Ukraine)
STD Sexually Transmitted Disease
STI Sexually Transmitted Infection
TAACS Technical Advisors for AIDS and Child Survival
TACIS Technical Assistance for the Commonwealth of Independent States, European Union
TAF The Asia Foundation
TB Tuberculosis
TBD To be Determined
TCB Trade Capacity Building
TDA Tourism Development Authority
TFCA Tropical Forest Conservation Act
TFET Trust Fund for East Timor
TFR Total Fertility Rate
TI Transition Initiatives
TIFA Trade and Investment Framework
TISS Tata Institute of Social Sciences
TN Tamil Nadu
TNC The Nature Conservancy
TR&D; Tropical Research and Development
TRA Telecommunications Regulatory Agency
TRADE Trade for African Development and Enterprise Initiative
TRG Triangle Research Group
TRM Tadla Resources Management
TSG The Services Group
UC Union Council
UECP Urban Environmental Credit Program
UES Urban Environmental Services
UK United Kingdom
ULP University Linkages Project
UMCOR Untied Methodist Committee on Relief
UN United Nations
UNAIDS United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS
UNCHS United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat)
UNDB United Nations Development Bank
UNDCP United Nations Drug Control Program
UNDP United Nation Development Program
UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNEP United Nations Environment Program
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFCCC Untied Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNFPAUnited Nations Population Fund
UNGA United Nations General Assembly
UNHCR Untied Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHRC United Nations Human Rights Commission
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
UNIFEM United Nations Fund for Women
UNOPS United Nations Operations Support
UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency
UNTAET United Nations Transitional Authority for East Timor
URC University Research Corporation
US United States
USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers
USAEP U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership
USAID United States Agency for International Development
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USDH United States Direct Hire
USEA United States Energy Association
USF University of San Francisco
USFS United States Forest Service
USFDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration
USG United States Government
USIA United States Information Agency
USIS United States Information Service
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USTR United States Trade Representative
UTC United Technologies Corporation
VC Vulnerable Children
VCT Voluntary Counseling and Testing
VfP Volunteers for Prosperity
VHS Voluntary Health Services
VITA Volunteers in Technical Assistance
VOA Voice of America
VOCA Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance
VOT Victims of Torture
VSC Voluntary Surgical Contraceptive
WAEN West Africa Enterprise Network
WAJ Water Authority of Jordan
WARP West African Regional Program
WB World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
WCC World Coast Conference
WCF Working Capital Fund
WFF World Wildlife Federation
WFP World Food Program (United Nations)
WHO World Health Organization
WID Women in Development
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WOCCU World Council of Credit Unions
WRS Water Resource Sustainability
WSSCC Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
WSSD World Summit on Sustainable Development
WTO World Trade Organization
WWF World Wildlife Fund
YMCA Young Men's Christian Association

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