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by Tissa Jayatillake From the time I was old enough to cultivate an interest in politics, I have familiarized myself with the life and times of those political personalities I took a liking to. The late Dudley Senanayake (who incidentally died in 1973 a day after Lakshman Kadirgamar’s 41st birthday) was the first I took […]
The experience of T. E. Lawrence in the early 20th century teaches that state building should always be approached from the bottom up, never from the top down; local elites must be stakeholders in theprocess, far more than people in faraway Washington, andpolicymakers must understand the history and culture of the region.
The Office of Foreign Assistance performs three core functions. First, it coordinates the formulation of future USAID and State Department foreign assistance budget requests a process that begins two years before the start of a fiscal year. Second, it manages the execution of the current fiscal year’s aid budgets for State and USAID, ensuring that obligations align with the State and Foreign Operations spending measure and its many embedded congressional directives and administration objectives. Third, it collects and analyzes performance and outcome data associated with past foreign assistance budgets.