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• USAID Home Page -- and -- What's New?
  
  
• USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)
  An extensive, updated archive of all available USAID reports on individual projects and countries. Search by country and download (in PDF--Adobe Acrobat 5 or Word Perfect) -- or order USAID-funded publications (many on African countries and topics). Plus, there is a listserv option to receive monthly e-mail notices on recent additions to the archive.
  
  
• USAID in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Country Information
  • See also, individual country pages for USAID activities. Also, briefings from the "Bureau on Asia and Near East" for:
    -- Egypt
    -- Morocco
    
    
  • USAID Sub-Saharan Africa Publications
    
    
  • Selected Online Newsletters
    - USAID in Africa. (Online) -- Washington, DC: USAID, 2003--
    - African Voices (Archive)
    "...provides a forum for dialogue on democratization in Africa; news and analysis of USAID and its collaborators' activities in civil society; profiles of African NGOs working in civil society; internet resources; publications; and conference highlights."
    - SD Abstracts (Archive)
    "....shares brief summaries of the results of the analytic work of the Africa Bureau's Office of Sustainable Development. Information is provided for readers who wish to order paper or electronic copies of publications." Note: Access to the Spring 1997 issue and subsequent issues will require Adobe Acrobat).
    - SD Developments (Archive)
    "...provides a regular snapshot of SD's numerous and facilitates dialogue with its colleagues in Africa."
  
  
• USAID Budget & Strategic Planning (since 2001) (General)
  • USAID Congressional Presentations on Africa Regional Programs, FY2000
  
  
• USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation in the Africa Region (Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, Washington, DC)
  This site offers information about USAID's programs on conflict management, with links to USAID publications and those of other organizations involved in conflict resolution issues, country and regional programs, etc.
  
  
• USAID in Africa: Education
  • USAID in Africa: Basic Education
  
  
• USAID Programs in Communications
  • AfricaLink Internet Program (1999)
    "As AfricaLink advises USAID partners about how best to obtain a connection to the Internet, a wealth of information has been collected on the availability of access from Internet service providers in Africa." The site includes detailed trip reports for regions and countries in Africa.
  • USAID Leland Initiative: Africa GII Gateway (2000-2001)
    "...a five-year $15 million US Government effort to extend full Internet connectivity to approximately twenty African countries in order to promote sustainable development. The Leland Initiative(LI) seeks to bring the benefits of the global information revolution to people of Africa, through connection to the Internet and other Global Information Infrastructure (GII) technologies."
  
  
• USAID Programs on Environment and Development in Africa
  • ADDS: Africa Data Dissemination Service (USAID and US Geological Survey--EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
    These web pages provide basic satellite data and statistics for West and Southern Africa.
    
    
  • AGCI: African Global Competitiveness Initiative supersedes Trade and Investment Policy Program of USAID Africa Bureau.
    
    
  • USAID -- CARPE: Central African Regional Program for the Environment (via University of Maryland, College Park)
    • "CARPE is a long-term initiative by USAID to address the issues of deforestation and biodiversity loss in the Congo Basin forest zone..." See especially:
    • CARPE Documents and Other Resources
  
  
• USAID in Africa on Health
  • USAID Africa: Health & Family Planning -- Home Page
    
    
  • USAID Publications on Health
    
    
  • USAID HIV/AIDS Country Profiles and Reports for Sub-Saharan Africa
    
    
  • SARA: Support for Analysis and Research in Africa
    • "The SARA project supports the work of USAID's Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD) to improve policies and programs in health and basic education."
    • Multisectoral responses to HIV/AIDS: a compendium of promising practices from Africa. (April 2003) -- Washington, DC: USAID-PVO Steering Committee on Multisectoral Approaches to HIV/AIDS, 2003. PDF format.
    • "HIV/AIDS, A humanitarian and development crisis: addressing the challenges for PVOs & NGOs in Africa." Conference report, October 16-17, 2002. -- Washington, DC: SARA, 2002. PDF format.
    • Online full-text publications on child survival, basic education, family planning and other topics -- Note: Some documents are also available in French.
  
  
• USAID Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) in Africa (Washington, DC; in association with USAID)
  -- FEWS Network Home Page

  Updated reports, assessments, and related links for the countries of the Horn of Africa, Sahel West Africa, and Southern Africa.