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Foreign Assistance: USAID Should Analyze Data on the Timeliness of Expenditures

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 2, 2020
Release Date Dec. 2, 2020
Report No. GAO-21-51
Summary:

The U.S. Agency for International Development obligated (legally committed) $185 billion in FY 2009-2019 appropriations to spend on various projects.

Under its policies, USAID tries to spend its money before the end of the next fiscal year following the obligation. We consider spending after that to be delayed. For selected accounts funded in FY 2009-2017, we found as much as $23 billion in delayed spending. Analyzing delayed spending could help USAID identify excess funds, which could be used for other projects.

USAID does not review the timeliness of its spending. We recommended USAID routinely analyze the timeliness of its spending, and more.

USAID's Timely or Possibly Delayed Expenditures for Selected Funds Appropriated in Fiscal Years 2009-2017, as of March 31, 2020

Graph showing around 20% of USAID expenditures were possibly delayed each year in fiscal years 2009-2017

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