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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 || || 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 || || 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> ||
