Ivanka Trump's flagship policy program slammed by government auditors

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The Government Accountability Office has issued a damning report about Ivanka Trump’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative.

Ivanka Trump's flagship policy program slammed by government auditors
She touted more rigorous standards for women's empowerment, but USAID delivered the opposite.
politico.com
12:01 PM · Mar 31, 2021

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/31/ivanka-trump-womens-initiative-gao-478710

Supporters of W-GDP saw it as a groundbreaking whole-of-government approach to female empowerment, while critics of the new law derided it as too limited to make a real difference.

The plan was to mandate and codify gender analysis and deliver targeted finance across the women’s programs of 10 U.S. Government agencies. At the individual level, the hope was that often poor women entrepreneurs would receive the financial kick-start they needed to build a business.

One of the 10 agencies involved was the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is mandated by the WEEE Act to allocate $265 million a year for support to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Half of the money is required to go to women, half to the very poor (some overlap between the two groups is expected).

While Trump touted W-GDP as a cohesive program “enabling us to rigorously track the execution and the efficacy of the money that we are spending,” the GAO’s 14-month audit demonstrates that, at least at USAID, the opposite was happening.

While USAID launched at least 19 new women’s empowerment programs in 2019 alone, there were extensive failures in both the targeting of the money, and the measurement of its impact.

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. This Mis-Administration was crooked from

the top to the bottom - from the beginning to the end - and I'm afraid we're going to be paying for it for years to come.

And to think that over 74 million wanted more of it!

[a kennedy]

2. GRIFTERS, every damn one of em.......🤮 🤮 🤮

[pandr32]

3. Well, color me not surprised