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Foreign Aid: Actions Taken to Improve Food Aid Management

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 23, 1995
Report No. NSIAD-95-74
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Summary:

A July 1993 GAO report (GAO/NSIAD-93-168) identified several problems with the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) management of its food aid programs. These problems included USAID's lack of criteria and guidance for implementing the programs, USAID's inability to show the impact of food aid on food security, and USAID's failure to account for food aid resources. Among the recommendations GAO made was for USAID to establish criteria and guidance on how food aid should be programmed, managed, and accounted for; assess the efficiency of food aid in achieving food security; and evaluate the impact of food aid on food security. USAID has fully or partially implemented 11 of the 13 recommendations made in GAO's 1993 report. USAID has yet to (1) establish criteria as to when U.S. procurement and shipping regulations may be waived and (2) report to Congress on the efficiency of food aid in achieving food security.

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