Contact
n/a
Website
https://www.foreignassistance.gov
Description
The United States has transitioned to separate US-GOV publishers and retired the US-USAGOV publisher.
IATI identifier
US-USAGOV
Implementation Schedule
N/A
Organisations / agencies covered
ForeignAssistance.gov serves as the U.S. Government’s repository of foreign assistance transactions. As of 2019, those transactions span 21 U.S. agencies: Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Interior, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Department of the Treasury, Environmental Protection Agency, Inter-American Foundation, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Peace Corps, U.S. African Development Foundation, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Timeliness of Data
ForeignAssistance.gov publishes financial data, which consists of U.S. agencies’ obligations and disbursements, as well as budgetary data, which consists of the Presidential Administration’s budget requests and the U.S. Congress’s appropriations. U.S. agencies report financial data within 45 days of the close of a fiscal quarter, and report budgetary data throughout the fiscal year as comprehensive and final figures become available.
Frequency of publication
Monthly
Frequency of publication (extra comments)
ForeignAssistance.gov publishes financial data every two to three weeks and budgetary data throughout the fiscal year. Additionally, the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources works with U.S. agencies throughout the fiscal year to publish legacy data and refresh existing data.
Units of Aid
ForeignAssistance.gov publishes financial data as transactions, which represent individual financial records as organized in a U.S. agency’s accounting system. Users can then aggregate these transactions into awards, also called activities, which reflect the projects or programs for which products or services have been contracted.
Segmentation of Published Data
ForeignAssistance.gov publishes data by U.S. agency, though users can also view much of this data by recipient country or foreign assistance category.
Data Definitions and References
The Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources works with U.S. agencies to publish both budgetary and financial data. Budgetary data comes from the U.S. President’s Congressional Budget Justification and the U.S. Congress’s appropriation law(s), as enacted. Financial data comes from the accounting systems of U.S. agencies. There is not a one-to-one link between budgetary data and financial data for a given year. The Congressional Budget Justification includes sectors specific to the U.S. Government. The budgets have been mapped to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC) sector codes in order to improve international usability.
Field Exclusions
N/A
Record Exclusions
It is the policy of the U.S. Government, per Office of Management and Budget Bulletin 12-01, for agencies to have a strong presumption in favor of openness. The Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016 provides for the following exceptions: a) when inclusion of a required item of information online would jeopardize the health or security of an implementing partner or program beneficiary or would require the release of proprietary information of an implementing partner or program beneficiary; or b) when inclusion of a required item of information online would be detrimental to the national interests of the United States. In these cases, information may be provided in classified form, as appropriate.
Thresholds
N/A
Other Constraints
N/A
Data Quality
The Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources works closely with U.S. agencies to assure the quality of published data. Initially, U.S. agencies submit budgetary and financial data based on templates meant to standardize entries across reporting agencies and fiscal quarters or years. Then, the Office of Foreign Assistance Resources oversees a quality control/assurance process to identify data shortcomings requiring correction or data sensitives meriting exclusion. Once the data has been approved by the responsible U.S. agency, it is published to ForeignAsstance.gov and then converted to the IATI format.
User Interface
Data published in the IATI format will be available at ForeignAssistance.gov.
User Interface Website
https://www.foreignassistance.gov