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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't believe that usaid did much measurable help I think they shot themselves in the foot by not tying the aid with clear kpis, targets and outcomes.[/quote]

We DID have kpis, targets, and outcomes. Measured and reported on in excruciating detail in real time dashboards plus quarterly and annual reports. My projects then also had baseline, midline, and endline research to measure change in health metrics.

I just don’t understand why people think USAID was out there throwing money around. There were contracts and deliverables and measurement of outcomes. We even had our contracts cancelled if we didn’t perform. And then (gasp) we fired the staff who were responsible for messing up.[/quote]

I think the usaid problem is that over the biden years they let the crazies get too much power and public facing attention.  Whether you were doing good work or not, all that everyone saw publicly was usaid pushing stuff like drag queen empowerment for Afghanistan type craziness.[/quote]

It's not the point of this thread, but I have to push back on the disinformation above. There were a lot of allegations right around the wood chipper era about "Drag Queen Empowerment" programs funded by USAID, and they all turned out to be false.

How do I know? I work for an organization that support LGBTQ activists around the world, among other groups at risk of social exclusion. I know these projects, and USAID was not funding them. The limited cases of USAID funding LGBTQ work were almost always within the context of a broader goal -- helping a local LGBTQ rights organization better reach MSM in order to distribute antiretroviral drugs, for example. The LGBTQ groups were the delivery system to get drugs and other HIV prevention to folks who might not otherwise get it. The biggest beneficiary of that work was not the LGBTQ community -- it was the women who didn't know their partners were having sex with men.

Now, there were some limited "drag Queen story hour" type programs. Maybe one in Ireland? But those weren't USAID - they were individual US Ambassadors throwing parties.

Again, none of this goes to OP's dilemma, but I couldn't let debunked information go unchallenged. [/quote]

Are you trying to claim you are aware of every single usaid program and where each single dollar was spent?

Impressive.[/quote]

No, but I do know that the claims you are blindly repeating here were extensively debunked more than a year ago. [/quote]

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