Office of Transition Initiatives

Bureau For Conflict Prevention & Stabilization

Office of Transition Initiatives

The challenges confronting the world are nuanced and fast evolving. As part of the Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization, the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) partners with local actors to target key political issues such as conflict, democratic backsliding, counterterrorism, and stabilization, delivering high-impact programming in fast-paced contexts. In coordination with USAID Missions and U.S. Embassies, OTI programs, funding, and technical services focus on social, communal, and political aspects of crises and political transition. To contribute to peace and stability, OTI programs focus on US foreign policy priority countries affected by conflict and transition to build the foundations for peace and stability. 

OTI's funding and procurement mechanisms allow it to launch programs quickly, adapt to changing environments, and work with non-traditional partners. These mechanisms enable OTI to be fast and flexible in dynamic transition environments, facilitating a strong partnership with implementing partners (IPs) through co-creation and intensive management of country programs.

OTI contributes to localization by ensuring that USAID, its partners, and communities shift agenda-setting and decision-making power to local actors including national and local governments, civil society, and grassroots organizations. The foundation of every OTI program is local. From OTI's inception, we have been inspired by a fundamental belief that even where institutions, infrastructure, and social fabric are broken, there always exists a capacity for change.

For more information about our programs, see Where We Work. To learn more about the office in general, view our Office of Transition Initiatives "Fast Facts" on the CPS Bureau website.