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Restructure and streamline USAID
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will "coordinate and consolidate PEPFAR, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Middle East Partnership Initiative and many foreign assistance programs currently housed in more than 20 executive agencies into a restructured, empowered and streamlined USAID. ... An empowered and elevated agency should be more nimble in the face of change and use tax dollars more responsibly."
Sources: "Strengthening Our Common Security by Investing in Our Common Humanity"
Subjects: Foreign Policy, Government Efficiency
White House names nominee for USAID
Updated: Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | By Angie Drobnic Holan
President Obama pledged to restructure, empower and streamline the U.S. Agency for International Development, an agency charged with distributing economic and humanitarian aid worldwide.
After a significant delay -- one that prompted Democratic senators to ask Obama to expedite a nomination -- the White House said Rajiv Shah would be named to head USAID.
Shah already serves in the administration as undersecretary of agriculture for research, education and economics. In theory, that means his nomination should proceed more quickly than someone who needed to be vetted and approved by the Senate
for the first time.
In October, U.S. senators led by Sen. Christopher Dodd called on Obama to appoint a USAID administrator as soon as possible. A Senate resolution said that "a highly capable and knowledgeable individual should be nominated with all expediency and exigency to serve as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development."
Nominating the head of USAID is a significant move that prompts us to label this promise In the Works.
Sources:
The Washington Post,
Shah to be named head of USAID
, Nov. 10, 2009
The Washington Post,
Leadership Vacancy Raises Fears About USAID's Future
, Aug. 5, 2009
Thomas,
Senate Resolution on USAID
, introduced Oct. 13, 2009
The Associated Press,
Obama
administration's foreign aid job left open, Oct. 24, 2009
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