Assistance program
Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa
$130.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 19.021
- What it does
- To support programs, projects and activities to include (but not limited to) cultural, educational, alumni, information and media efforts in the Middle East and North Africa. NEA Public Diplomacy objectives are focused on active promotion of projects which promote mutual understanding and invest in people.
- Who benefits
- Local organizations, citizens of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and the U.S.
- Who applies
- Not-For-Profit organizations subject to 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code or registered as a non-profit organization in the entity's home country. Organizations that have and have not previously received international program funding from the U.S. Government. Applicants with demonstrated experience in work with vendors, suppliers, contractors, etc. and appropriately staffed offices in country will be preferred.
- Authorized by
- Fulbright Hays Act - The Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, Public Law 87-256; Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; as amended by Foreign Assistance Act, Public Law 87-195, U.S.C. 22; Smith Mundt Act-The United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948…
- Program site
- Not Applicable
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$130.4M
100%
Insurance
$35.2K
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments