Foreign assistance: State Department should better assess results of efforts to improve financial and some program data : report to congressional requesters / United States Government Accountability Office.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of State--Management--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Department of State.

Technical assistance, American--Management.

Technical assistance, American.

Economic assistance, American--Management.

Economic assistance, American.

Humanitarian assistance, American--Management.

Humanitarian assistance, American.

Military assistance, American--Management.

Military assistance, American.

Medical assistance, American--Management.

Medical assistance, American.

Management--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 28 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

State Department should better assess results of efforts to improve financial and some program data

GAO-21-373 State foreign assistance data

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2021.

Summary:

Members of Congress, the State Inspector General, and GAO have raised concerns about State's ability to adequately track and report its foreign assistance data. These concerns include State's ability to retrieve timely and accurate data necessary to provide central oversight, meet statutory and regulatory reporting requirements, manage resources strategically, and assess program performance. In response, State began an initiative in 2014 to improve the quality and availability of foreign assistance data. This report assesses (1) the status of State's plan to improve the tracking and reporting of its foreign assistance data and (2) the extent to which State's plan adheres to sound planning practices. GAO recommends that the Secretary of State direct the Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance to improve the monitoring and evaluation of the FADR effort.

Contents:

Background

State developed and mostly implemented a plan to improve tracking and reporting of its foreign assistance financial and program data

State generally incorporated key elements of sound planning in its plan, but could improve the monitoring and evaluation component

Conclusions

Recommendation for executive action

Agency comments

Appendices.

Notes:

"May 2021."

"GAO-21-373."

In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Catalog and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed May 11, 2021).

OCLC:

1250324118