USAID Office of Transition Initiatives: Special Tenth-Year Edition: A Decade of Transition, 1994-2004

摘要

USAIDs Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) was created in 1994 to bridge the gap between relief and development and provide short-term political assistance to countries in crisis. Located within the Agencys humanitarian bureau, OTI represented a new model of aid programming. Like a USAID field mission, the office commanded the funds and technical capacity to implement programs directly. Like a central office, it was headquartered in Washington, D.C., and given worldwide scope. And like its sister unit, the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), OTI was charged with responding rapidly to dynamic situations and unfolding emergencies, in effect acting as the first responder to political upheaval.