Feds Seeks Help in Spending Billions in Uganda More Effectively

U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor ^ | Nov. 24, 2012 | Steve Peacock

[Steve Peacock]

The U.S. government plans to spend another $1 billion in Uganda through 2015 -- and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will devote an additional $17.5 million specifically towards helping its Uganda unit to become more "adaptive, modern" and "effective."

The $1 billion figure is part of the Obama Administration's $3.5 billion 2011-2015 Ugandan strategy, which aims to cut that nation's poverty in half ("$3.5 Billion 'Plan Uganda' Seeks to Cut Poverty in Half -- While Reducing 'Cattle Raiding,' Too" ; U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor, 5/18/11).

The agency will hire a private contractor to carry out this "monitoring, evaluation, and learning" initiative over five years, it said in a solicitation (#SOL-617-12-000021) released Nov. 24 that the Monitor located through routine database research. During that time USAID/Uganda hopes to improve, in sum, how it carries out assistance programs in the East African nation.

The solicitation acknowledges that USAID/Uganda is embarking upon this new contract vehicle following a separate series of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) projects. It points out that while the contractor (The Mitchell Group, Inc.) satisfied agency requirements for M&E, "busy Mission staff still placed little attention on M&E data and did not utilize the data for learning."

RELATED COVERAGE: Obama Has Taxpayers Funding Graduate Programs in Uganda .

FOR ADDITIONAL REGIONAL COVERAGE, SEE THE MONITOR'S AFRICA PAGE and UGANDA PAGE .

FOR FURTHER COVERAGE OF THE U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, PLEASE VISIT THE MONITOR'S USAID PAGE.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the posts/information. BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM.

“Socialism Is Legal Plunder” - Bastiat

Some of the damage socialists have done to this country...

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

UNaccountable bureaucrats are socialists. DISMANTLE UNaccountable bureaucracies. DEFUND their collectives. DEPOPULATE their enablers from the body politic.

“Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.” - Bastiat

[Steve Peacock]

An interesting and well-crafted response; I applaud you for even “daring” to say (as it often elicits hostile responses) that such projects involve many conservatives, not just liberals.