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United States Agency for International Development (U.S.)

image by Eugene Ipavec, 17 February 2010

Description of the flag
Variant with horizontal logo

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Description of the flag

The federal agency responsible for disbursing civilian foreign aid; I saw its flag on the news, at a televised press conference: white with the text USAID in large caps, the ''US" blue and the "AID" red, with the agency seal above then and off-center, over the S in "US."
Eugene Ipavec, 17 February 2010

USAID is a government agency that was set up to help developing nations either recover from a natural disaster or to develop their governmental structure. It was created after the passage of the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961.

The flag is described at www.usaid.gov/branding/USAID_GSM_Section_4.pdf as a logo on a white field. The flag itself is 3x5 in ratio. There are also vertical banners used by USAID as described in the linked PDF file (which is a part of a whole identity manual used by USAID).
Zachary Harden, 7 April 2010

Using the branding guide at https://www.usaid.gov/branding, I was able to improve the image above. At https://res.cloudinary.com/...USAID-Afghan-Flags.jpg (display in Afghanistan with the US and Afghan flags), the seal is centered above the text (and during official uses, the fringe is blue).
Zachary Harden, 15 November 2016

Variant with horizontal logo

image by Zachary Harden, 27 October 2022

There seems to be a variant used where the logo is horizontal versus vertical; the 2020 brand guide (https://www.usaid.gov/branding/gsm) does not say which flag is correct or not because flags are not discussed in this one.
The horizontal logo flag can be seen at this 2021 article: https://www.usaid.gov/central-asia-regional/press-releases/oct-28-2021-usaid-brings-together-central-asia-deputy-energy-ministers

Zachary Harden, 27 October 2022