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Related Posts. Blog Post. Most of those funds were for water infrastructure projects, while only a small portion has gone to health-specific projects. Even so, the agency has demonstrated some commitment to coordinating activities with those of U. Compacts in Madagascar and Mali were terminated due to coups. Two countries Mauritania and Yemen have had their eligibility terminated before their programs were implemented. Foreign Assistance Dashboard website, ForeignAssistance.
FY is the most recent year with complete data. KFF analysis of data from U. Data Collaboratives for Local Impact. MCC projects span many sectors of development, including global health. MCC has a unique approach among U. Historically only a small proportion of MCC funding has been directed to global health. In recent years MCC has maintained its partnerships with other U. Eligibility Indicators and Country Scorecard To determine eligibility and gauge country commitment to key principles, MCC relies on more than 20 quantitative indicators of policy and performance.
Foreign Assistance Dashboard, www. However valuable selectivity is for MCC, it is not necessarily appropriate for the range of other US government development efforts. For example, humanitarian relief and post-conflict reconstruction are usually concentrated in more fragile policy environments. And to the extent that the Trump administration sees a strong role for foreign assistance to counter violent extremism, the ability to work in fragile and conflict-affected states is critical.
Furthermore, if the US wants to continue its leadership in the fight against extreme poverty, it must be able to work where extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated.
This allows the agency to pursue development objectives in a highly targeted way. However, Americans value other objectives that are often tied to growth but may not be among the binding constraints that MCC would seek to address.
South Korea is a notable success story that had years of extraordinarily fast growth; even so, it took the country well over 30 years to become the middle class democracy it is today. The drawn out process of development calls for the kind of long-term relationships and continuity where warranted that USAID can provide. MCC, on the other hand, works in discrete five-year increments with no assurances of continued support after a program concludes. This kind of time clock can be appropriate for the types of discrete interventions MCC funds like the rehabilitation of a road segment.
It provides incentive for timely implementation by the partner country and forces a point of reassessment about whether to have follow-on engagement.
However, since the process of program development starts over for each compact, there has been a year gap between closing the initial program and implementing the next. In fact, discrete, terminal programming can be inappropriate for some areas or activities for instance, longer-term investments in the business environment, efforts to prevent and treat malaria and can even be counterproductive for instance, addressing the spread of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis.
The US needs foreign assistance tools that can take a sustained, long-term approach to long-term problems. USAID has made strong commitments and forward progress on almost all of these see, for instance, the stronger emphasis on ownership in revised operational guidance, a commitment to do more growth diagnostics , a highly-regarded evaluation policy.
Continued efforts are needed—including getting the incentives in place for staff to work in new ways—to ensure meaningful implementation. CGD blog posts reflect the views of the authors, drawing on prior research and experience in their areas of expertise.
CGD is a nonpartisan, independent organization and does not take institutional positions.
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