USAID Monitor

The USAID Monitor provides timely analysis and research on the operations and effectiveness of the US Agency for International Development, and the issues affecting its ability to live up to the administration’s pledge to make it the world’s premier development agency.

The Monitor will focus on aid effectiveness, transparency, and the efficient use of federal funds to support US foreign policy. It will track new initiatives begun by Administrator Shah as embodied in USAID Forward. It will pay special attention to the agency’s new approach to evidence-based policy and planning and will monitor congressional activities that affect its authorities and capacity to achieve development objectives.

With the increasing number of government agencies administering some type of foreign assistance, and the State Department’s adoption of a “whole-of-government” approach to development, the Monitor will scrutinize the role the agency plays in new White House initiatives such as Feed the Future, the Global Health Initiative, and the Global Climate Change Initiative.

Like its sister the MCA Monitor, the USAID Monitor is part of CGD’s Rethinking US Foreign Assistance program that tracks efforts to reform aid programs and improve aid effectiveness.