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NSIAD-00-195R 1 (2000-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalpw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~GAO __ _ _ _ __ National Security and International Affairs Division B-285478 June 30, 2000 The Honorable Fred Thompson Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Joseph I. Lieberman Ranking Member, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: Observations on the U.S. Agency for International Development's Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Report and Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 Performance Plans As you requested, we have reviewed the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies' fiscal year 1999 performance reports and fiscal year 2001 performance plans required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). In essence, under GPRA annual performance plans are to establish performance goals and measures covering a given fiscal year and provide the direct linkage between an agency's longer-term goals and day-to-day activities. Annual performance reports are to subsequently report on the degree to which those performance goals were met. This letter contains two enclosures responding to your request concerning key program outcomes and major management challenges at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Enclosure I to this letter provides our observations on USAID's fiscal year 1999 actual and fiscal years 2000 and 2001 planned performance for the key outcomes that you identified as important mission areas for the agency. These key outcomes are (1) increased economic growth in developing countries, (2) reduced spread of HIV/AIDS, and (3) lives saved and suffering reduced from natural or man-made disasters. Enclosure II lists the major management challenges facing the agency that we and USAID's Inspector General identified, how their fiscal year 1999 performance report discussed the progress the agency made in resolving these challenges, and the applicable goals and measures in the fiscal year 2001 performance plans. Results in Brief USAID has made progress in establishing outcome-oriented goals and developing indicators and targets that help measure overall results. However, because the agency's goals in the three outcome areas are so broad and progress is affected by GAO/NSID-00-195R USAID's FY 1999 Performance Report and FY 2001 Performance Plan

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