The place for USAID

POST: USAID challenges reflect greater problems at the State Department, By Matt Armstrong, MountainRunner, August 18, 2009

Great post on USAID's recent decline. If not rebuilt and freed from State, DoD will get stuck with more and more aid in its SysAdmin.

Eventually, the USG needs to create an alternative bureaucratic center of gravity, or what I dubbed the Department of Everything Else in BFA.

And USAID should be the anchor.

Comments

[RattlerGator]

I agree completely. I have a close friend who recently completed (a couple of years ago) a USAID project in Indonesia and I've tried to get him to reach out to you.

The Department of Everything Else, freed from State. Under Obama -- soon come?

[Karen]

As one of two USAID staff in this year's ICAF class, it would be great to hear more about your thoughts on this when you speak to us this week.

Thanks

[Critt Jarvis]

Tom,

US Ambassador Hugo Llorens and William Brands, who is the mission director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Tegucigalpa are planning to attend the Conference on Honduras, in September. Marco Caceres, director of the conference series, is working with USAID to develop a workshop for the conference about USAID programs and ways to increase collaboration with the NGO community in Honduras. As we plan the format and content--effectively, Project Honduras' 10,000+ volunteers are a SysAdmin--I'll look for ways to highlight the DoEE concept. After all, attending to everything else is how we shrink the gap.