The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 billion,USAID is one of the largest official aid agencies in the world and accounts for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance—the highest in the world in absolute dollar terms.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid,relief,and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association,at the request of Albert Einstein,and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee,the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war,persecution,or natural disaster. The IRC is currently working in about 40 countries and 26 U.S. cities where it resettles refugees and helps them become self-sufficient. It focuses mainly on health,education,economic wellbeing,power,and safety.
III Marine Expeditionary Force is a formation of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force of the United States Marine Corps. It is forward-deployed and able to rapidly conduct operations across the spectrum from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) to amphibious assault and high-intensity combat.
Andrew S. Natsios is an American public servant and Republican politician originally from Massachusetts,who served in a number of positions in the administrations of Governor Paul Cellucci and President of the United States George W. Bush.
The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1983 and funded and supported by the United States federal government. Most of its board is drawn from the Republican Party. It is committed to advancing freedom and democracy worldwide by helping political parties to become more issue-based and responsive,assisting citizens to participate in government planning,and working to increase the role of marginalized groups in the political process,including women and youth. It was initially known as the National Republican Institute for International Affairs.
Canada was one of the countries to provide the most aid and relief for Hurricane Katrina. They provided ships,supplies,volunteers,search-and-rescue teams,and more. It has also accepted some evacuees to stay in Canada.
Frederick C. Cuny was an American humanitarian whose work spanned disaster relief,refugee emergency management,recovery from war and civil conflict as well as disaster and emergency preparedness,mitigation and peacebuilding. He was first and foremost a practitioner,but also a prolific author,an educator and a field-based researcher. He has been described as "a great American –a sort of universal Schindler,a man with lists of millions of people in Asia,Africa,Latin America and Europe whose lives he succored or saved." Another tribute to Cuny claimed that he "was one of the world's most accomplished disaster relief experts,both a pioneer and an iconoclast in the field of international humanitarian aid."
Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 2 or CA-TF2 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Los Angeles County,California. CA-TF2 is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Joint Task Force (JTF) Shining Hope was the United States contribution to Operation Allied Harbor in 1999. The mission of JTF Shining Hope was to conduct foreign humanitarian assistance operations in support of US government agencies and non-governmental and international organizations engaged in providing humanitarian relief to Kosovar refugees in Albania and Macedonia. JTF Shining Hope was commanded by Major General William S. Hinton Jr.,United States Air Force.
In different administrative and organizational forms,the Food for Peace program of the United States has provided food assistance around the world for more than 60 years. Approximately 3 billion people in 150 countries have benefited directly from U.S. food assistance. The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the U.S. Government's largest provider of overseas food assistance. The food assistance programming is funded primarily through the Food for Peace Act. The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance also receives International Disaster Assistance Funds through the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) that can be used in emergency settings.
Joint Task Force-Bravo is a forward-based expeditionary joint task force operating as U.S. Southern Command's (USSOUTHCOM) lead forward element in the Central America (CENTAM) region to promote stability and security and counter transnational and transregional threat networks (C-T3N). JTF-Bravo operates out of Soto Cano Air Base,Honduras,located 10 miles south of the city of Comayagua and 50 miles north of the capital city of Tegucigalpa.
The 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade is a United States Marine Corps unit that is the "middleweight" crises response force of choice in the Pacific Area of Operation. It is the Marine Corps’only permanently forward-deployed Brigade sized Marine Air-Ground Task Force and is a resilient,ready and relevant force able to rapidly deploy and conduct operations across the spectrum from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to amphibious assault and high intensity combat. 3d MEB maintains a forward presence in the Pacific Theater to support contingencies and alliance relationships. 3d MEB also conducts combined operations and training throughout the region in support of United States national security strategy.
Haiti–United States relations are bilateral relations between Haiti and the United States. Succeeding U.S. presidents refused to recognize Haiti until Abraham Lincoln. The U.S. tried to establish a military base in Haiti and invaded. It withdrew in 1934 but continued to intervene in Haiti during subsequent decades.
MapAction is a non-governmental organisation that specialises in providing mapping for humanitarian emergencies. MapAction is a registered UK charity.
U.S. Army Southern European Task Force,Africa(SETAF-AF),is the United States Army service component command of United States Africa Command,and is headquartered at Caserma Ederle and Caserma Del Din,Vicenza,Italy.
Julia Ann Vadala Taft was a United States official who was involved in international humanitarian assistance,and who served as Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from 1986 to 1989,and as Assistant Secretary of State for Population,Refugees,and Migration from 1997 to 2001.
The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) was an organizational unit within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) charged by the President of the United States with directing and coordinating international United States government disaster assistance. USAID merged the former offices of OFDA and Food for Peace (FFP) in 2020 to form the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).
Operation Sahayogi Haat was a US military relief operation delivering humanitarian assistance to victims of the April and May 2015 Nepal earthquakes. About 900 US military and civilian personnel were involved,with about 300 deployed in Nepal. 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade was tasked to form Joint Task Force 505,which was responsible for managing the relief operation from May 6 to 26,2015.
All Partners Access Network (APAN),formerly called Asia-Pacific Area Network,is a United States Department of Defense (USDOD) social networking website used for information sharing and collaboration. APAN is the premier collaboration enterprise for the USDOD. The APAN network of communities fosters multinational interaction and multilateral cooperation by allowing users to post multimedia and other content in blogs,wikis,forums,document libraries and media galleries. APAN is used for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief,exercise planning,conferences and work groups. APAN provides non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and U.S. partner nations who do not have access to traditional,closed USDOD networks with an unclassified tool to communicate.
The 2019–2020 Congo River floods resulted from torrential rains from October 2019 to January 2020 that caused the overflow of the Congo and Ubangi rivers,floods and landslides throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Congo (RoC) and led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
