Inside the Chaos, Confusion, and Heartbreak of Trump’s Foreign-Aid Freeze

 https://time.com/7211200/usaid-foreign-aid-freeze-trump-rubio/

Most of the people TIME spoke to about USAID, both from within and outside the agency, agreed that it would benefit from a bit of a shake-up. "There's real reform needed in the sector," says the official at the NGO. "Many of us have been advocating for that." Programs are duplicated. Some initiatives have outlived their usefulness or have led to dependency rather than the development outcomes that were intended. There is waste, and oversight is often difficult. The system tends to favor bigger Western organizations and not smaller, more nimble local agencies. "If there was a process through which all of these programs could be reviewed, I think that everyone would be rolling up their sleeves to have the programs reviewed," says one former senior USAID official. "But there is no such process." Others were more damning. “There are certainly things that could be done to improve USAID," says Rieser, "but these people, who know next to nothing about USAID’s programs or dedicated personnel, are not the ones to do it.”