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GAO-11-564R 1 (2011-05-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanyf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J A countability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 May 26, 2011 The Honorable Claire McCaskill Chairman Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Madam Chairman: Subject: Department of State's Counternarcotics Performance Management System Our recent reviews of U.S counternarcotics programs in Mexico and Afghanistan highlighted the need to improve the programs' performance measures to track progress.' The Department of State (State) received over $1 billion in its fiscal year 2010 appropriation for international counternarcotics assistance programs. The vast majority of this funding-about 90 percent in fiscal year 2010-supports counternarcotics programs in five countries-Mexico, Afghanistan, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) is primarily responsible for implementing U.S. assistance programs involving eradication of illicit crops, interdiction of drug trafficking, and drug demand reduction, which represented about 85 percent of State's counternarcotics appropriation in fiscal year 2010.2 INL implements a large share of its funding through contractors, primarily for aviation support for eradication and interdiction efforts. You asked us to review State's performance measures for its counternarcotics programs. On March 10, 2011, we briefed your staff on our preliminary findings in which we described State's performance management system, including State's standard indicators for measuring the performance of counternarcotics assistance in recipient countries and 'See GAO, Merida Initiative: The United States Has Provided Counternarcotics and Anticrime Support but Needs Better Performance Measures, GAO 10-837 (Washington, D.C.: July 21, 2010), and Afghanistan Drug Control: Strategy Evolving and Progress Reported, but Interim Performance Targets and Evaluation of Justice Reform Efforts Needed, GAO-10-291 (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 9, 2010). 'INL generally implements its counternarcotics programs with funding through the International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) account. The U.S. Agency for hiternational Development (USAID) implements most of the remaining State counternarcotics appropriation through either the Development Assistance account or the Economic Support Fund account for alternative development programs in Afghanistan and Andean countries. GAO-11-564R State's Counternarcotics Performance Measurement Page I

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