The U.S. Agency for International Development is committed to the President's Open Government initiative, upholding the values of transparency, participation, and collaboration in tangible ways that benefit the American people:
As part of this effort, we are inviting the public to give us your ideas on how we can:
05/04/2012
Open Government Plan - version 2.0 (pdf, 700kb)
USAID is committed to sharing information with the public about the foreign assistance work we do overseas. The Agency has created and released the Open Government Plan (version 2.0) to detail our latest efforts to uphold the values of transparency, participation, and collaboration. This is a third in a series of 'public roadmap' plans to highlight how USAID incorporates the principles of the President's Open Government Initiative. The Open Government Plan (version 2.0) can be found here (pdf, 700kb).
04/26/2012
First Annual Plain Language Compliance Report - April 2012 (pdf, 340kb)
The U.S. Agency for International Development is committed to writing new documents in plain language. For an in-depth look at implementation of the Plain Writing Act 2010, please see our compliance report here (pdf, 340kb).
10/07/2011
Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative 2011 Data Center Consolidation Plan
& Progress Report (pdf, 677kb) - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in keeping with the direction from the Executive Office of the President, Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDDCI) initiated the migration of its primary data center, the Telecommunications and Computer Operations Center (TCOC) to a Managed Data Center (Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)) provider. With this migration, USAID intends to transform the TCOC to provide expanded capabilities to mission-based staff in a more efficient, cost-effective manner.
The Plain Writing Act
President Obama emphasized the importance of �transparency, public participation, and collaboration" in his Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. USAID is committed to these goals and to writing new documents in plain language that the public can understand and use, as required under the Plain Writing Act of 2010 and outlined in the Federal Plain Language Guidelines (www.plainlanguage.gov).
We're training our employees and strengthening our oversight processes. Agencies must use plain language in any document that:
- is necessary for obtaining any federal government benefit or service or filing taxes;
- provides information about any federal government benefit or service; or
- explains to the public how to comply with a requirement that the federal government administers or enforces.
We need your help to comply with this Act! Let us know if you have trouble understanding our documents or the pages on our Internet site. We have assigned staff to oversee our plain language efforts:
Plain Language Coordinators: Lisa Glufling (lglufling@usaid.gov) and Christine Brown (chbrown@usaid.gov)
Please let us know if we haven't written a document in plain language. We will post our progress and compliance with the Act here (pdf, 178kb).
03/11/2011
In support of "Sunshine Week" USAID is pleased to release its Chief Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer's Report for FY2010. USAID's support for Sunshine Week is part of our ongoing commitment to open government. President Obama, on his first full day in office , called on all federal agencies to "...renew their commitment to the principles of FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open government." On March 19, 2009, during the inaugural Sunshine Week, Attorney General Holder issued FOIA Guidelines that built on the President's call for openness and transparency. The FOIA Guidelines address the presumption of openness, agency accountability, and the need to work proactively and promptly. In the guidelines, the Attorney General directed all agency Chief FOIA Officers to annually review all aspects of their agency's FOIA administration and report on the steps taken to improve FOIA operations and apply the presumption of openness. The full report can be found here.
02/16/2011
Statement: The United States and the International Aid Transparency Initiative Standards
12/09/2010
Remarks by Ruth Levine, Deputy Assistant Administrator , Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning at The Brookings Institution - "Opening Up: Aid Information, Transparency and U.S. Foreign Assistance Reform"
12/09/2010
U.S. Official Development Assistance Database
The US Official Development Assistance (ODA) public website has been updated with the Calendar Year 2009 US Development Assistance Committee (DAC) data. View the database here
04/24/2010
Open Government Plan Self-Evaluation
USAID has released the self-evaluation of its Open Government Plan. Read the self-evaluation here
04/07/2010:
USAID Publishes Open Government Plan
USAID has published its Open Government Plan, outlining the Agency's plans for making operations and data more transparent, and expanding opportunities for citizen participation, collaboration, and oversight. Read the USAID Open Government Plan here. (pdf, 264kb)
