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| 1966 || Program || USAID joins the global effort to eradicate {{w|smallpox}}.<ref name="USAID Celebrates 50 years of Saving Lives Across the Globe"/> ||
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| 1970 || Funding || USAID allocates some funding to four U.S. universities to study legislatures in developing countries.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baaklini |first1=Abdo I. |last2=Desfosses |first2=Helen |title=Designs for Democratic Stability: Studies in Viable Constitutionalism: Studies in Viable Constitutionalism |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=c-xmDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT15&lpg=PT15&dq=%22in+1970+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=RvIGgs8UWu&sig=ACfU3U2gxrQAMOfxz_opgykQDN9ZwrCxAg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGpeHjjqbhAhX5ErkGHVSGBkQQ6AEwB3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201970%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref> ||
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| 1970 || Program || USAID commences the 10-year Maasai Range Development and Management Project. Range development specialists are brought in from the USA, and US$1.7 million are loaned to the Tanzanian government for capital equipment. The production target is a 100% increase over 10 years. The project entails constructing cattle dips to ght disease and watering points to prevent overgrazing, improving herds, increasing marketing facilities and training select Tanzanians in conservation and range management.<ref>{{cite web |last1=FORSTATER |first1=MATHEW |title=Bones for Sale: ‘development’ , environment and food security in East Africa |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/184f/50b969daaef070aad4c4f3826066a7805544.pdf |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> ||{{w|Tanzania}}
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| 1971 || || USAID develops a "positive list" of commodities, including pesticides that are eligible for agency financing.<ref name="Donor policies on pesticide donations: pest and pesticide management">{{cite web |title=Donor policies on pesticide donations: pest and pesticide management |url=http://www.fao.org/3/w8419e/W8419e05.htm |website=fao.org |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref>
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| 1971 || Collaboration || USAID participates in the establishment of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a partnership of international research centers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Egna |first1=Hillary S. |last2=Boyd |first2=Claude E. |title=Dynamics of Pond Aquaculture |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=m_EczUbFnDMC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=%22in+1971+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=ddNxb3eegi&sig=ACfU3U2pbEuwdY1v7nA6yMWW40gnF65vjw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSz-GLkqbhAhXuIbkGHbeNAWEQ6AEwBnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201971%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref><ref name="USAID’S LEGACY IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: 50 YEARS OF PROGRESS">{{cite web |title=USAID’S LEGACY IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: 50 YEARS OF PROGRESS |url=https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/agriculture-and-food-security/usaids-legacy-agricultural-development |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1972 || Program || USAID begins family-planning assistance in {{w|Kenya}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Butterfield |first1=Samuel Hale |title=U.S. Development Aid--an Historic First: Achievements and Failures in the Twentieth Century |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=1qh1zVjZh54C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=%22in+1972+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=_jEjeMhHOH&sig=ACfU3U3SIWT_doqkgMLPVZAKJCSL7tOGGQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFk_--yafhAhVlK7kGHd-9CwAQ6AEwBnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201972%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|Kenya}}
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| 1972 – 1976 || Funding || USAID finances approximately 9,000 tons of pesticides in the period.<ref name="Donor policies on pesticide donations: pest and pesticide management"/> ||
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| 1974 || Program || USAID’s partnership with Cyprus begins as a humanitarian relief operation.<ref>{{cite web |title=CYPRUS |url=https://www.usaid.gov/cyprus |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cyprus}}
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| 1975 || Program || USAID establishes the {{w|Development Experience Clearinghouse}} (DEC) in order to strengthen development activities by making development experience documents available to a wide variety of audiences.<ref>{{cite web |title=USAID Open Gov Plan |url=https://www.slideshare.net/govloop/usaid-open-gov-plan |website=slideshare.net |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1975 || || USAID begins working in the health sector in {{w|Egypt}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Time for self-reliance? |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2001/539/fo51.htm |website=weekly.ahram.org.eg |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w| Egypt}}
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| 1976 || || USAID initiates their its first agricultural research project which concentrates on supporting the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) at Joydebpur, developing the Ishurdi Centre for work on wheat, and providing funds for technical assistance, training and contract research.<ref>{{cite web |title=The World Bank |url=http://documents.banquemondiale.org/curated/fr/672881467997886511/text/multi-page.txt |website=documents.banquemondiale.org |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Bangladesh}}
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| 1976 || || USAID funds the Portage Project to set up non-formal early education programs in collaboration with the [[w:Ministry of Education (Peru)|Ministry of Education of Peru]] and the National Institute of Educational Research and Development. This 3-year project, establishes in 6 urban and rural sites using community workers as interventionists, would expand to 1500 sites by 1987.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCUMENT RESUME |url=https://archive.org/stream/ERIC_ED364032/ERIC_ED364032_djvu.txt |website=archive.org |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref>
