The ADS is USAID's directives management program. Agency policy directives, required procedures, and helpful, optional material are drafted, cleared, and issued through the ADS. Agency employees must adhere to these policy directives and required procedures.

The ADS web site is a real-time portal to the most recent versions of ADS chapters and internally created references, interim updates, and links to external references.

*For AID Handbook chapters that are still valid, see the Handbook Status page for specifics. This page provides the reader with status information on each AID handbook and links the reader to those still valid handbook chapters.

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