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Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
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<p>The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) was an organizational unit within the <a href="/facts/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development/7LRWB5Hy">United States Agency for International Development</a> (USAID) charged by the <a href="/facts/President_of_the_United_States/oMsfmLb1">President of the United States</a> with directing and coordinating international <a href="/facts/Federal_government_of_the_United_States/VJCxUaf7">United States government</a> <a href="/facts/Disaster_response/0ahnmSpP">disaster assistance</a>. USAID merged the former offices of OFDA and <a href="/facts/Food_for_Peace/YvIQHs46">Food for Peace</a> (FFP) in 2020 to form the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). </p>