Since 1961, the U.S. Agency for International Development has been implementing international assistance programs.
The Agency's world-wide activities cover 5 interrelated areas instrumental for the U.S.A. advancing its foreign-political interests. They include:
- Protecting the Environment
- Building Democracy
- Stabilizing World Population Growth & Protecting Human Health
- Encouraging Broad-Based Economic Growth
- Providing Humanitarian Assistance & Aiding Post-Crisis Transitions
The USAID Program in Ukraine has the following objectives:
- To help create a broad-based market economy;
- To help build the framework and practices of a democratic political system that assures open economic and political participation;
- To help make social services work for the people, during the country's economic and political transition and after