Foreign aid reform : comprehensive strategy, interagency coordination, and operational improvements would bolster current efforts : report to congressional requesters.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Agency for International Development--Rules and practice.

United States.

United States. Department of State--Rules and practice.

United States. Agency for International Development.

United States. Department of State.

Economic assistance, American.

Military assistance, American.

Interagency coordination--United States.

Interagency coordination.

United States--Foreign relations.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

Rules and practice.

Rules.

Physical Description:

ii, 54 pages : digital, PDF file

Other Title:

Comprehensive strategy, interagency coordination, and operational improvements would bolster current efforts

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]

Summary:

In January 2006, to better align foreign assistance programs with U.S. foreign policy goals, the Secretary of State appointed the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to serve concurrently as Director of Foreign Assistance (DFA) and gave the DFA authority over all Department of State and USAID foreign assistance funding and programs. The Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance (State/F) was given responsibility for reforming foreign assistance by, among other things, consolidating State and USAID foreign assistance processes. GAO was asked to (1) examine State/F's key efforts to consolidate State and USAID foreign assistance processes and (2) identify any key challenges that affect State/F's reform of foreign assistance. GAO evaluated budget, planning, and other documents and interviewed agency officials in Washington, D.C.; Ethiopia; Haiti; Jordan; Kenya; Peru; and Ukraine. GAO is making seven recommendations to enhance State-USAID organizational transformation, interagency coordination and collaboration, planning processes, and workforce management. State and USAID generally acknowledged or agreed to consider six of the seven recommendations but asserted they had met the one related to regional planning. GAO maintains this recommendation is valid; it is important that an agency clearly capture all relevant programs and activities in its planning processes.

Notes:

Title from cover screen (viewed Apr. 24, 2009).

"April 2009."

Includes bibliographical references.

"GAO-09-192."

OCLC:

319188848