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Short-term program impact, long term outcome effects, and potential waste of international development programs could be evaluated / transparent

By Hicbd
Wed Jun 23 2021 3:27 pm

"In my time in Afghanistan, I followed and reported on hundreds of millions of dollars of USAID programs. Many of those programs made a lot of 'noise' and were trumpeted by the agency as 'good news stories.' However, from everything I could tell, many programs did little to create lasting change or build the capacity of Afghans to run clinics or schools or social programs. Again, the program outputs might have been significant, but the outcomes were not."

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https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/552404-how-effective-are-usaid-programs
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/14/647212387/which-foreign-aid-programs-work-the-u-s-runs-a-test-but-wont-talk-about-it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3094436/SHAMED-Foreign-aid-fat-cats-built-1-4billion-empire-tax-money.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/world/asia/afghanistan-women-usaid.html
https://www.hbo.com/vice/season-02/1-aghan-money-pit/synopsis

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International Development / Foreign Aid / NGOs U.S. Government Contracting / Procurement Global Education Corruption / Fraud Investigative Reporting International NGOs / Contractors Government/Nonprofit Auditing / Public Financial Management (PFM) U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) UK Department for International Development (DFID)

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