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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 || Program || 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 Assistance || 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"/> ||
| 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 || Assistance || 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 || Program || USAID initiates 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 || Program || 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> ||
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| 1976 || Assistance || USAID develops a major new development program for the {{w|Sahel}} and successfully obtains Congressional funding for it.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Electronic Oracle |url=http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/2595/1/XB-85-101.pdf |website=pure.iiasa.ac.at |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> ||{{w|Sahel}}
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| 1977 || Assistance || USAID/Egypt begins providing assistance to the Government of Egypt in the area of population and health.<ref>{{cite web |title=Situational Analysis of the Private Sector in the Delivery of Family Planning Services in Egypt: Current Status and Potential for Increased Involvement |url=http://evidenceproject.popcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Egypt-PSA-Report.pdf |website=evidenceproject.popcouncil.org |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1977 || Assistance || USAID in {{w|Nepal}} provides funds to World Education and the Centre for Educational Research Innovation and Development (CERID) at Tribhuvan University to pilot a nonformal education program. This program would evolve into the Nepal National Literacy Program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Perspectives on learning in the Women 's Economic and Empowerment Literacy Program in Nepal. |url=https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3418&context=dissertations_1 |website=scholarworks.umass.edu |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Nepal}}
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| 1978 || Assistance || USAID becomes deeply involved in reforming the fertilizer supply system of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hale Butterfield |first1=Samuel |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=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=%22in+1978+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=_jEjeNlPPJ&sig=ACfU3U184XCBOu1C-AVr-OwbS6JEx6PmZg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnwJvWgKjhAhUZErkGHd2bD2cQ6AEwAnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201978%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|Bangladesh}}
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| 1978 || Program || USAID starts modification of its centralized model for program and project development, through a series of delegations of authority.<ref>{{cite web |title=50 Years in Development: How Private Companies Adapt & Deliver |url=https://issuu.com/professionalservicescouncil/docs/50_years_in_development_-_how_priva |website=issuu.com |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1979 || Funding || USAID makes the largest donor investment in the establishment of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research.<ref name="USAID Celebrates 50 years of Saving Lives Across the Globe">{{cite web |title=USAID Celebrates 50 years of Saving Lives Across the Globe |url=https://blog.usaid.gov/2011/11/usaid-celebrates-50-years-of-saving-lives-across-the-globe/ |website=blog.usaid.gov |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1980 || Program || USAID launches its Forest Resources Management project, which would contract with the U.S. Forest Service to provide a variety of technical services in forestry to missions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Corson |first1=Catherine A. |title=Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=Jue7DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=%22in+1980+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=oFmbZj1ufL&sig=ACfU3U1djUpKLbKE6L1cfbUokluWyFgO8Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwifjKWvsqjhAhXDnOAKHQzIB6kQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201980%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref> ||
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| 1980 || Assistance || USAID starts providing large fertilizer shipments to Kenya as components of various aid packages.<ref>{{cite web |title=USAID IN KENYA: DEVELOPMENT OF THE CLIENT STATE |url=https://explorations.ucdavis.edu/docs/2014/klein-baer.pdf |website=explorations.ucdavis.edu |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Kenya}}
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| 1981 || Program || USAID creates the program MERC, aimed at supporting cooperation in Egyptian-Israeli research.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waisová |first1=Šárka |title=Environmental Cooperation as a Tool for Conflict Transformation and Resolution |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=UT0ADgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq=%22in+1981+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=5qDXSavswr&sig=ACfU3U2bhg4c3RIPqix1vwk0W30RJic6vQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNkbC-uKjhAhVQLLkGHUIOBQYQ6AEwB3oECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201981%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref> ||
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| 1981 || Funding || USAID sponsors the Colloquium on Rural Finance in Low-income Countries. This would be considered a watershed event in rural lending.<ref>{{cite web |title=USAID's Legacy in Agricultural Development |url=https://issuu.com/usaid/docs/usaid_legacy_ag_development_report_ |website=issuu.com |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1982 || Policy || USAID issues a policy paper on population assistance, which clearly states its commitment to voluntarism in the provision of family planning (FP) services. Annex PD-3 of the Population Policy of 1982 includes specific requirements for USAID-supported programs that include voluntary sterilization. These requirements cover informed consent, ready access to other methods, and guidelines on incentive payments.<ref>{{cite web |title=Appendices to the Guidance on the Definition and Use of the Global Health Programs Account |url=https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1864/200mab1.pdf |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=17 April 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1983 || Organizaton || USAID establishes the Institute for International Studies in Natural Family Planning at {{w|Georgetown University }} through a 5-year US$15 million grant. The Institute would conduct a program of research, training, and technical assistance to increase the knowledge, availability, acceptability, and effectiveness of natural family planning methods in developing countries.<ref>{{cite web |title=USAID's new directions. |url=https://www.popline.org/node/573856 |website=popline.org |accessdate=30 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1983 || Assistance || USAID begins providing assistance to the Nigerian Federal and State Ministries of Health to develop and implement programs in family planning and child survival.<ref>{{cite book |title=Nigeria Investment and Trade Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws |publisher=IBP, Inc. |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=YceyDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=%22in+1983+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=xYb-9yvy7M&sig=ACfU3U3lWSJf3r2534FaebPNhPpnu6u0kw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUiKXg06jhAhUlIbkGHaBKD7MQ6AEwBHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201983%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|Nigeria}}
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| 1984 || Organization || USAID and the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) establish {{w|CBI Global}}, an industry leader that connects coffee and spice farmers to more than 160 companies in over 40 countries.<ref>{{cite web |title=THE VANILLA CONNECTION |url=https://stories.usaid.gov/the-vanilla-connection/#page-14 |website=stories.usaid.gov |accessdate=30 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1985 || Program launch || USAID teams up with {{w|UNICEF}} and the {{w|United States Congress}} to launch the Child Survival Revolution, as effort to reduce child mortality in the developing world.<ref>{{cite web |title=50 years of progress |url=https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/50-years-progress/7114 |website=unicefusa.org |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1985 || Program || USAID launches the Technology and Resources for Child Health Project. This marks the first major effort for a global project that would provide assistance to countries and the global technical community in support of childhood immunization services.<ref name="Three decades of USAID investments in immunization through the child survival revolution">{{cite journal |last1=Trostle |first1=Murray |last2=Shen |first2=Angela K |title=Three decades of USAID investments in immunization through the child survival revolution |doi=10.1038/emi.2014.13 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1038/emi.2014.13}}</ref> ||
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| 1986 || Program launch || USAID launches its HIV and AIDS program. Since then, the agency would play a leading role in averting the global AIDS crisis.<ref>{{cite web |title=HIV AND AIDS TIMELINE |url=https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/hiv-and-aids/technical-areas/hiv-and-aids-timeline |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=30 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1987 || Program || USAID starts the HealthTech Program, which is charged with discovering new and appropriate cost effective technologies to apply to immunization programs in the developing world.<ref name="Three decades of USAID investments in immunization through the child survival revolution"/> ||
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| 1988 || Organization || USAID creates the Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI), one month after Hurricane Gilbert makes landfall as a Category 5 storm that would affect 10 countries.<ref>{{cite web |title=2015 NEPAL EARTHQUAKE |url=https://www.cidi.org/nepalrelief/#.XKDhrVX0mUk |website=cidi.org |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1989 || Assistance || Following Paraguay’s democratic elections, USAID provides support to strengthen the Electoral Tribunal, to help ensure free, fair and transparent elections.<ref>{{cite web |title=HISTORY |url=https://www.usaid.gov/paraguay/history |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Paraguay}}
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| 1990 || Assistance || USAID sponsors a satellite-based forest and other land cover survey in Guatemala in support of that country's tropical forestry action plan. Conservation organizations with matching grants from USAID would employ imagery in tropical America.<ref name="Satellite Mapping of Tropical Forest Cover and Deforestation">{{cite web |title=Satellite Mapping of Tropical Forest Cover and Deforestation |url=http://www.ciesin.org/docs/005-325/005-325.html |website=ciesin.org |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1991 || Program || USAID contracts NASA's Goddard Space Center to map the forest cover in portions of Central Africa.<ref name="Satellite Mapping of Tropical Forest Cover and Deforestation"/> ||
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| 1991 || Program || USAID purchases more than 633 million condoms for its family planning service.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wanted: new condom suppliers for USAID (foreign companies need not apply). |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12344624 |website=ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1991 || Assistance || USAID starts providing assistance in {{w|Azerbaijan}} with humanitarian relief and the health sector, as well as economic and democratic reforms.<ref>{{cite web |title=AZERBAIJAN |url=https://www.usaid.gov/azerbaijan |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Azerbaijan}}
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| 1992 || Assistance || USAID signs a bilateral agreement on humanitarian, economic and technical cooperation with Ukraine to help the country develop its economic, political and societal potential.<ref>{{cite web |title=HISTORY |url=https://www.usaid.gov/ukraine/history |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Ukraine}}
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| 1992 || Assistance || USAID begins operating in [[w:Georgia (country)|Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=GEORGIA |url=https://www.usaid.gov/georgia |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> || [[w:Georgia (country)|Georgia]]
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| 1993 || Assistance || USAID opens its mission in support of Macedonia's transition to a democracy and free-market economy.<ref>{{cite web |title=HISTORY |url=https://www.usaid.gov/history-2 |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=5 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Macedonia}}
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| 1994 || Program || USAID creates its Microenterprise Initiative to raise the priority of microenterprise to one that matches its importance for poverty alleviation.<ref>{{cite web |title=ABOUT MICROENTERPRISE RESULTS REPORTING |url=https://mrr.usaid.gov/about.html |website=mrr.usaid.gov |accessdate=5 April 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1995 || || Legislation to abolish USAID is introduced by Senator {{w|Jesse Helms}}, the Chairman of the {{w|Senate Foreign Relations Committee}}, with aims at replacing USAID with a grant-making foundation.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/16/world/helms-seeks-to-merge-foreign-policy-agencies.html | work=The New York Times | first=Steven | last=Greenhouse | title=Helms Seeks to Merge Foreign Policy Agencies | date=March 16, 1995}}</ref> ||
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| 1996 || Program || USAID awards the first grant aimed at promoting democratic transition in Cuba.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cuba |url=http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/095_Cuba_Sanctions/Agency_Activities/USAID/USAID_Cuba_Introduction_052302.htm |website=lobby.la.psu.edu |accessdate=17 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cuba}}
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| 1997 || Publication || USAID issues USAID Disability Policy Paper, a non-binding guidance note that has, as its objective, the avoidance of “discrimination against people with disabilities in programs which USAID funds and to stimulate an engagement of host country counterparts, governments, implementing organizations and other donors in promoting a climate of nondiscrimination against and equal opportunity for people with disabilities.”<ref>{{cite web |title=CRITICAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS. |url=https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/134/2017/06/Stein-and-Lord-Chapter-edited-YP-2nd-June.docx |accessdate=1 April 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1998 || Program || USAID establishes a data repository for collecting and tracking performance data from HIV/AIDS programs.<ref>{{cite book |title=U.S. Agency for International Development : status of achieving key outcomes and addressing major management challenges : report to the ranking minority member, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=J1i74ughVIcC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=%22in+1998+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=A2FRS_Hhzs&sig=ACfU3U1s2VF4aEdJMeyaoQDpnIYtn9iPQQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM54Gj5LfhAhVRIbkGHUM5Ars4ChDoATAFegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=%22in%201998%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref> ||
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| 1999 || || USAID begins disbursing multimillion dollar grants for anti-trafficking projects in Russia and Ukraine.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine |edition=Olena Hankivsky, Anastasiya Salnykova |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=n9MOMCO5SJ8C&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=%22in+1999+usaid%22&source=bl&ots=fsDpSngSXL&sig=ACfU3U17cZ_BvzWkuNSPCED0fpseG_ymTw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7g9jY6LfhAhXeF7kGHcvAAVgQ6AEwBXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201999%20usaid%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|Russia}}, {{w|Ukraine}}
