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Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013) : The Office, [1995]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)37432645 Subject: Economic assistance, American -- Developing countries. Excerpt: ... Chapter 1 Introduction 4 food aid in the country. We used a structured data collection instrument and activities between 1991 PVO INGO to collect basic descriptive data on and 1994. To review the success of PVOs in meeting their objectives and enhancing sustainable development, we conducted 26 case studies, including at least PVO 2 projects in each country carried out by different s in different development sectors. We used project design, implementation, and evaluation documentation; on-site observations of projects; and extensive, , and host government officials to assess projects USAID PVO interviews with as more or less successful relative to the projects ' success in meeting their objectives, including developing local capacity. To determine the degree to which projects met their objectives, we considered factors such as whether ( 1 ) projects were meeting agreed-upon measurable benchmarks or indicators within agreed costs and time frames and ( 2 ) outcomes achieved project goals. In many cases, indicators were not quantifiable, so we based our judgment on on-site observations of USAID PVO and officials about intended project projects and interviews with outcomes. We supplemented the fieldwork undertaken specifically to answer this request with information generated in the course of our other work in the last 3 years, including reports on P.L. 480 titles II and III and 5 PVOs ' role in food aid. To assess the degree to which s depend on federal funding, we PVO examined data on private and federal funding published in Voluntary Foreign Aid Programs, an annual publication of ' s Bureau for USAID Humanitarian Response. We analyzed the data from 1982 to 1992, the last year for which complete information was available, after converting dollar amounts into constant
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