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Much of Urcea's humanitarian aid is provided in the form of block grants provided by the government from the Office to the [[Catholic Church]], specifically Catholic charities abroad, for the direct provision of services to individuals in developing countries. This program, called the Ecclesiastical Development Grant (EDG), comprised 87% of Urcean foreign humanitarian aid in fiscal year 2018-19. Accordingly, Urcea has little discretion in where this money is spent geographically, and Urcean dollars fund Church programs in developing countries all over the world. The remaining amount is divided among several programs which are referred to colloquially as "in-house aid programs" ("IHAPs"), which are targeted programs that the [[Government of Urcea]] operates by working with other governments to fund specific programs in those countries. The largest IHAP programs are for education and healthcare in [[Crona]] and [[Alshar]], with most of the funds going specifically to [[NSTA]] countries. IHAPs have many restrictions placed on them, and funding from Urcea cannot be used for abortion services and contraceptives among other restricted uses. As of [[2026]], the largest recipients of Urcean IHAP funding was [[Quetzenkel]]. | Much of Urcea's humanitarian aid is provided in the form of block grants provided by the government from the Office to the [[Catholic Church]], specifically Catholic charities abroad, for the direct provision of services to individuals in developing countries. This program, called the Ecclesiastical Development Grant (EDG), comprised 87% of Urcean foreign humanitarian aid in fiscal year 2018-19. Accordingly, Urcea has little discretion in where this money is spent geographically, and Urcean dollars fund Church programs in developing countries all over the world. The remaining amount is divided among several programs which are referred to colloquially as "in-house aid programs" ("IHAPs"), which are targeted programs that the [[Government of Urcea]] operates by working with other governments to fund specific programs in those countries. The largest IHAP programs are for education and healthcare in [[Crona]] and [[Alshar]], with most of the funds going specifically to [[NSTA]] countries. IHAPs have many restrictions placed on them, and funding from Urcea cannot be used for abortion services and contraceptives among other restricted uses. As of [[2026]], the largest recipients of Urcean IHAP funding was [[Quetzenkel]]. | ||
Urcean lethal aid has existed in some form since the [[Second Great War]], but in the modern period it typically consists of indefinite leases of [[List of equipment of the Armed Forces of Urcea|specific military equipment]] to foreign nations for nominal sums. This practice is governed by the "Lethal Aid Foreign Leasing Program" (LAFLP) which is jointly administered by the Office for Foreign Aid through the [[Ministry_of_State_(Urcea)#Agency_for_Global_Defense_Aid|Agency for Global Defense Aid]] and the [[Ministry of the Armed Services (Urcea)|Ministry of the Armed Services]] through the [[Ministry_of_the_Armed_Services_(Urcea)#Agency_for_the_Aid_Liaison|Agency for the Aid Liaison]]. The Office for Foreign Aid is responsible for obtaining requests for foreign lethal aid, which the Aid Liaison is responsible for fulfilling and cataloging equipment in foreign service. The LAFL Program was heavily used during the [[Occidental Cold War]] and provided arms and equipment to many nations, particularly in [[Sarpedon]]. Increasingly, however, LAFLP is being supplanted by direct aid to [[NSTA]] members as the primary form of lethal aid. Rather than taking place under the auspices of a specific programmatic office, the [[Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]] simply strikes the equipment in question from its rolls and directs it abroad as a form of "disposal" under current Urcean laws. In practice, this entails the Ministry of the Armed Services disposing of equipment into the formal possession of the Agency for Global Defense Aid, which directly ships it abroad to [[NSTA]] members. Under [[Consolidated Laws of HMCM's Kingdom and State|procurement laws]] in Urcea, equipment must be in service for a certain amount of time before being disposed of by the military, which has the effect of large numbers of equipment from the 1970s and 80s being sent to [[Crona]]. | Urcean lethal aid has existed in some form since the [[Second Great War]], but in the modern period it typically consists of indefinite leases of [[List of equipment of the Armed Forces of Urcea|specific military equipment]] to foreign nations for nominal sums. This practice is governed by the "Lethal Aid Foreign Leasing Program" (LAFLP) which is jointly administered by the Office for Foreign Aid through the [[Ministry_of_State_(Urcea)#Agency_for_Global_Defense_Aid|Agency for Global Defense Aid]] and the [[Ministry of the Armed Services (Urcea)|Ministry of the Armed Services]] through the [[Ministry_of_the_Armed_Services_(Urcea)#Agency_for_the_Aid_Liaison|Agency for the Aid Liaison]]. The Office for Foreign Aid is responsible for obtaining requests for foreign lethal aid, which the Aid Liaison is responsible for fulfilling and cataloging equipment in foreign service. The LAFL Program was heavily used during the [[Occidental Cold War]] and provided arms and equipment to many nations, particularly in [[Sarpedon]]. Increasingly, however, LAFLP is being supplanted by direct aid to [[NSTA]] members as the primary form of lethal aid. Rather than taking place under the auspices of a specific programmatic office, the [[Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]] simply strikes the equipment in question from its rolls and directs it abroad as a form of "disposal" under current Urcean laws. In practice, this entails the Ministry of the Armed Services disposing of equipment into the formal possession of the Agency for Global Defense Aid, which directly ships it abroad to [[NSTA]] members. Under [[Consolidated Laws of HMCM's Kingdom and State|procurement laws]] in Urcea, equipment must be in service for a certain amount of time before being disposed of by the military, which has the effect of large numbers of equipment from the 1970s and 80s being sent to [[Crona]]. Critics - both inside and outside of the [[Government of Urcea]] - have criticized this practice as unaccountable {{wp|Arms trafficking|weapons laundering}}, and calls for a formal program have increased in regularity since the [[Final War of the Deluge]]. | ||
==Bilateral relations== | ==Bilateral relations== | ||