Foreign Assistance: Selected Agencies' Monitoring and Evaluation Policies Generally Address Leading Practices

Abstract

Is the federal government monitoring its foreign aid funds? The United States plans to spend more than $34 billion on foreign assistance in 2017 to improve health, support democracy, and achieve other U.S. foreign policy goals. To effectively manage these funds, the government needs reliable ways to monitor and evaluate how this money is spent. We reviewed 6 federal agencies' policies for monitoring and evaluating their foreign aid programs. Except for the Department of Defense, these agencies had policies that addressed most (but not all) of the 28 leading practices we identified, such as using outside evaluators to review program results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 27, 2016
Accession Number
AD1158039

Entities

People

  • Barbara Shields
  • Gergana Danailova-trainor
  • Isabel Band
  • James Michels
  • Jessica Farb
  • John Richard
  • Kay Halpern
  • Kimberly Gianopoulos
  • Mark Dowling
  • Martin de Alteriis
  • Michael Budros
  • Michael Simon
  • Stephanie Shipman

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Agreements
  • Best Practices
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Directives
  • Foreign Aid
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Guidance
  • Monitoring
  • National Governments
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union