Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund: Agencies Have Not Assessed Whether Six Projects That Began in Fiscal Year 2011, Worth about $400 Million, Achieved Counterinsurgency Objectives and Can Be Sustained
Abstract
In January 2011, Congress authorized the Afghanistan Infrastructure Program to enable the U.S. government, led by the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of State (State), to execute high-priority, large-scale infrastructure projects in support of the U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy and the civilian-military campaign in Afghanistan. The program was primarily funded by the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund (AIF). Between fiscal years (FYs) 2011 and 2014, Congress appropriated approximately $1.3 billion to the AIF to fund large-scale infrastructure projects. In FY 2011, DOD and State notified Congress of six projects that would receive funding, consisting of four power sector projects, one road infrastructure project, and one project to refurbish provincial justice centers. The six projects that began during FY 2011 have been funded with appropriations from multiple fiscal year. Overall, approximately $399 million has been spent on these six projects. This is SIGAR's second report on U.S. efforts to implement FY 2011 AIF projects. In July 2012, SIGAR reported that, among other things, four of the six projects were up to 15 months behind schedule, could be counterproductive to the U.S. COIN strategy due to project implementation delays, and lacked adequate sustainment plans. The objectives of this follow-up audit were to determine the extent to which (1) DOD, State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) assessed whether the six AIF projects that began in FY 2011 achieved their intended COIN objectives; (2) the agencies made progress completing the projects; and (3) the projects will be sustained once completed and transferred to the Afghan government.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1139844
Entities
People
- John Sopko
Organizations
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction