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Economic Support Fund - Human Rights and Democracy Fund

The Human Rights and Democracy Fund provides grants to U.S.-based NGOs to work with indigenous agents of democratic change across the world to advance the President's Freedom Agenda and the Secretary's transformational diplomacy goal of working with partners to build sustainable democratic institutions.

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 targets its grants to support and complement the Department of State's regional and country strategies, and coordinates effectively with other programs to prevent duplication of effort.
  • The program has taken actions to remedy the lack of independent evaluations of its activities. For example, the agency hired outside evaluators to assess how well major programs in China and Central Asia advance human rights and democracy there.
  • Annual budget requests do not provide sufficient information to link funding requirements and proposed allocations to specific data on program performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Refining performance goals to better reflect the program's purpose in supporting U.S. policy priorities to improve the protection of human rights and the strengthening of democratic institutions.
  • Using the findings of independent evaluations and internal performance data to inform resource allocation.

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