The United States is the largest DAC donor of humanitarian aid by volume. In 2007 its official humanitarian expenditure reached US$3 billion – or 34.5% of the collective DAC total. Volumes fell by 3.5% between 2006 and 2007. Preliminary DAC data suggests that bilateral contributions could rise by 42.5% to US$4 billion in 2008. In 2007, total humanitarian assistance expenditure accounted for 13.8% of the United States’ total ODA (excluding debt relief). The share of humanitarian assistance has hovered between 13% and 15% since 2000, with the exception of 2003 when it peaked at one-fifth of ODA.
The United States has a number of agencies that coordinate humanitarian assistance. These include the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), which provides aid and solutions for refugees, victims of conflict and stateless people globally; the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which is responsible for coordinating US Government emergency assistance and the USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA). Humanitarian aid also comes from the departments of defence and agriculture. The United States was joint chair of the GHD initiative in 2007/8. The United States’ humanitarian assistance programme was DAC peer reviewed in December 2006.
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