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GAO-17-563R 1 (2017-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaakwr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 June 13, 2017 The Honorable Ted Poe Chairman Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives The Honorable David A. Perdue United States Senate U.S. Foreign Assistance: Inventory of Strategies at Selected Agencies The U.S. government plans to spend approximately $35 billion on foreign assistance in 2017 to improve the lives and health of millions living in poverty, support democracy, enhance global security, and achieve other foreign policy goals. U.S. agencies that provide this assistance have developed a number of strategy documents to guide their efforts. You asked us to compile an inventory of U.S. foreign assistance strategies. We focused on the six agencies that administer the largest amounts of foreign assistance1: the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the Department of State (State), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). We identified these agencies by reviewing obligations data that the agencies reported to USAID's U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants database for fiscal years 2011 through 2015, which represent the most recent and complete data available for all six agencies.2 To compile this inventory, we reviewed agency websites as well as our prior body of work on foreign assistance to identify and obtain available documents and statements relating to agency strategies. We asked key officials at each agency whether they considered the documents we identified to be strategy documents, and we asked them to identify and provide any additional strategy documents; we generally relied on each agency to define what it considered to be 1Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 12-01-Guidance on Collection of U.S. Foreign Assistance Data- issued on September 25, 2012, defines foreign assistance as tangible or intangible resources (goods, services, or funds) provided by the U.S. government to a foreign country or an international organization for the purpose of assistance to foreign entities or populations as authorized under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, or any other act. This includes, for example, security cooperation activities implemented by DOD and authorized under Title 10 of the United States Code, as well as security assistance authorized under Title 22 of the code, much of which is implemented by DOD. 2As the lead U.S. government agency for international aid, USAID is responsible for reporting official U.S. government foreign aid to Congress and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. To fulfill this responsibility, USAID has maintained an official database for reporting U.S. government assistance to the world, from 1946 to the present. We found this database to be sufficiently reliable for the purpose of identifying those agencies that administer the largest amounts of foreign assistance. GAO-17-563R Foreign Assistance Strategies Page 1

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