A Prototype Overview for Allocating USAID Foreign Aid

Abstract

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. In fiscal year 2011, USAID spent approximately $15 billion in an effort to assist countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms. Using Value-Focused Thinking, regression, and optimization techniques, this thesis utilizes overarching USAID objectives and underlying policy to develop a prototype overview model that is used to provide insight to a Decision Maker regarding how changes in funding allocation can lead to improved impact.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 22, 2012
Accession Number
ADA559714

Entities

People

  • Deane E. Cover

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Business Administration
  • Civil Rights
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Foreign Aid
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • National Governments
  • Optimization
  • Prototypes
  • Public Administration
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.