Afghanistan: Actions Needed to Improve Accountability of U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan Government

Abstract

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Defense (DOD) award direct assistance to Afghanistan, using bilateral agreements and multilateral trust funds that provide funds through the Afghan national budget. GAO assessed (1) the extent to which the United States, through USAID and DOD, has increased direct assistance, (2) USAID and DOD steps to ensure accountability for bilateral direct assistance, and (3) USAID and DOD steps to ensure accountability for direct assistance via multilateral trust funds for Afghanistan. GAO reviewed USAID, DOD, and multilateral documents and met with U.S. officials and staffs of multilateral trust funds in Washington, D.C., and Afghanistan.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Jul 01, 2011
• Accession Number: ADA546194

Entities

People

• Ashley Alley
• Bruce Kutnick
• Charles M. Johnson Jr.
• Christopher Mulkins
• Diana Blumenfeld
• Eddie Uyekawa
• Emily Gupta
• Esther Toledo
• Gergana Danailova-trainor
• Jeffrey Baldwin-bott
• Karen Deans
• Martin de Alteriis
• Mona Sehgal
• Pedro Almoguera
• Pierre Toureille
• Tetsuo Miyabara

Organizations

• United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Accountability
• Congress
• Contracts
• Department Of Defense
• Department Of State
• Government Procurement
• Governments
• Health Services
• House Of Representatives
• Information Systems
• Law
• National Governments
• National Security
• Organizational Structure
• Personnel Management
• Public Health
• United States Government

Fields of Study

• Political science

Readers

• Government Contracting/Procurement.
• International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
• Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.