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Economic Support Fund for Africa

The Economic Support Fund programs of the Department of State in Africa support US foreign policy goals in the region by strengthening democratic institutions, helping nations recover from conflict, and promoting economic stability, trade and investment.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has effectively focused its resources. Funding goes to countries that are key strategic partners of the US that can make effective use of aid, or are emerging from, or still enduring, long periods of conflict and instabiliy.
  • The program is flexible and responsive to changing economic and political priorities, and also is complementary to, and not duplicative of, other US government aid programs in Africa. For example, it funds activities in countries that do not have an Agency for International Development mission.
  • The program has not been effective at measuring results and program performance against specific goals and targets which support the US government's broad strategic objectives. For example the United States seeks to expand democracy and reduce conflict in the region.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Lobbying for the reinstatement of ESF-supported Regional Democracy Fund to respond quickly to pressing issues as they arise.
  • Conducting biannual training sessions for State desk officers to review the multi-stage process for moving ESF documentation through the system expeditiously.

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