SEED Reports
The assistance provided by USAID in Poland from 1989-2000 was made
possible thanks to a decision by the U.S. Congress to provide U.S. taxpayers’
monies to help Poland and other Central and East European countries
with their transformation into free market democracies. This was made
possible through the Support for East European Democracy (SEED)
Act. Funds provided annually since 1989 under this law also provided
the funding for the Polish-American
Enterprise Fund and subsequently the work now beginning under the
guidance of the Polish-American
Freedom Foundation.
The SEED Act requires that a report be made every year to Congress
on what has been achieved with the U.S. assistance funds provided. These
documents are prepared by the Office of the Coordinator of SEED Assistance
at the U.S. Department of State with input from the various U.S. agencies
that worked in Poland – in particular the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw,
the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Labor, the Department of Justice,
the Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
and – of course – USAID. Here you can find our input for the
years 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999. The reports
may not make for light reading, but it’s as official as you can
get.
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