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GAO-13-295R 1 (2013-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacgvp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L GAO Accountablty *Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 January 30, 2013 The Honorable Dianne Feinstein Chairman The Honorable Charles Grassley Co-Chairman Caucus on International Narcotics Control United States Senate Subject: Status of Funding for the Central America Regional Security Initiative In Central America, violent criminal and drug trafficking organizations, transnational youth gangs, and other criminal networks operate with virtual impunity and take advantage of weak government institutions, undermining citizen security and the rule of law. The United States created the M6rida Initiative and later the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) to help Central American countries respond to these threats.1 From fiscal years 2008 through 2011, U.S. agencies allocated $350 million in assistance funding for CARSI activities in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. CARSI assistance employs an integrated approach to support anti-corruption, judicial reform, anti-gang, community policing, and corrections efforts, as well as crime prevention, law enforcement, and counternarcotics programs. Assistance to fund these activities has come from four accounts: International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE); Economic Support Fund (ESF); Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining, and Related Programs (NADR); and Foreign Military Financing (FMF). In this correspondence, we are providing information on the status of funding provided under CARSI to support programs in partner countries as of September 30, 2011. Specifically, we describe how much funding U.S. agencies have disbursed each fiscal year for partner countries. In addition, in enclosure I, we describe-by year of appropriation-how much INCLE, ESF, and NADR funding U.S. agencies have allocated, obligated, and disbursed under CARSI; in enclosure II, we describe how U.S. agencies have allocated and committed FMF funds (by year of appropriation) toward activities in CARSI partner countries.2 To determine the status of CARSI funding provided, we collected data from the Department of State (State) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including data on funds allocated, obligated, and disbursed for CARSI activities from fiscal years 2008 through 2011. Recognizing that agencies may use slightly different terms, we 1For the purposes of this review, the term CARSI will be used to refer to both funding provided under the earlier M6rida Initiative, as well as the more recent CARSI, to support activities in CARSI partner countries. 2We are not able to present data on the FMF account used to support CARSI activities in the same way as other CARSI accounts in enclosure I. FMF funds are budgeted and tracked in a different way than the other CARSI accounts and the DOD system that is used does not track FMF information consistent with the way we are presenting the data for the other accounts. In enclosure II, we present data on FMF allocations and commitments-by year of appropriation-toward activities in CARSI partner countries.

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