Get to know ACVFA & learn what the USA does re: foreign assistance
12:54, 9 February 2010
.. Posted in Development, Relief and Advocacy Efforts.. Link
USAID is the principal USA agency providing US government assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms. USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. The Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA) part of USAID, was established after World War II to serve as a link between the U.S. Government and private voluntary organizations (PVOs) active in humanitarian assistance and development work overseas. ACVFA is lead by 30 private citizens appointed as volunteers (serving without compensation) by the USAID Administrator for two-year terms. "Members embody diverse perspectives and experience and are experts on private voluntary organizations and international development."
ACVFA posts a great deal of information online, and invites public comment on some of its activities. And they listen: in October 2008, I submitted comments to the ACVFA Subcommittee on Public Outreach, as invited to do so via an ACVFA email update, and almost all of my comments (regarding how to use various Internet tools in ACVFA), were incorporated into the final report.
Check out ACVFA's reports for yourself:
- ACVFA Public Meeting Report (pdf, 197kb)
- View video of the ACVFA Public Meeting
- ACVFA Recommendations on Monitoring and Evaluation (pdf, 291kb)
- Economic Growth Approach to Poverty Reduction and Food Security (pdf, 928kb)
- Feeding a Hungry World (pdf, 603kb)
- IEG Conference Presentation: State of the Art in Measuring Development Assistance (pdf)
- Managing for Results: The USAID Approach (pdf, 291kb)
- Beyond Success Stories: Monitoring & Evaluation for Foreign Assistance Results (pdf, 213kb)
- Key Elements of Evaluation at MCC (pdf, 294kb)
- What have we learnt about M&E? (pdf, 204kb)
- Policy Brief: Monitoring & Evaluation for Results (pdf, 326kb)
- Strengthening Evaluation at USAID (pdf, 326kb)
- Meeting Full Report (pdf, 102kb)
- An Effective U.S. Foreign Assistance Program: Reflections From The Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid (pdf, 41kb)
- ACVFA Report on Public Outreach: Why the Story That U.S. Foreign Assistance Is Working Must be Told (pdf, 447kb)
