Treasury International Programs 

Program Summary by Appropriations Account 

(Dollars in Thousands) 

FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 Appropriations Enacted Enacted President's Budget 

International Financial Institutions $1,277,289 $1,493,000 $2,341,305 

International Development Association 942,305 1,115,000 1,320,000 

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency 0 0 0 

Global Environment Facility 81,101 80,000 86,500 

Clean Technology Fund 500,000 

 Strategic Investment Fund 0 0 100,000 

Inter-American Development Bank: 

Multilateral Investment Fund 24,798 25,000 25,000 

Inter-American Investment Corporation 0 0 4,670 

Asian Development Bank 0 0 0 

Asian Development Fund 74,544 105,000 115,250 

African Development Bank 2,021 0 0 

African Development Fund 134,585 150,000 159,885 

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 10 0 0 

International Fund for Agricultural Development 17,926 18,000 30,000 

Debt Restructuring $30,055 $60,000 $110,630 

Treasury Technical Assistance $20,235 $25,000 $31,440 

Total Program Level $1,327,578 $1,578,000 $2,483,375 

Explanation of Request

The FY 2010 President’s Budget request 

for the Department of the Treasury’s 

International Assistance Programs 

supports key objectives of the President's 

international assistance agenda, such as 

responding to the financial crisis, 

addressing global climate change, the 

Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative 

(MDRI), measuring results, improving 

debt sustainability, supporting grants, 

improving transparency and fighting 

corruption. Total resources required to 

support Treasury International 

Assistance Programs for FY 2010 are 

$2.483 billion, including contributions to 

the International Financial Institutions 

(IFIs) of $2.341 billion, $110.63 million 

for Debt Restructuring, and 

$31.44 million for Treasury's 

International Affairs Technical 

Assistance Programs. 

Purpose of Program

The mission of Treasury International 

Programs is to promote economic 

growth and poverty reduction in 

developing countries through U.S. 

participation in the multilateral 

development banks (MDBs), efforts to 

prevent the buildup of unsustainable 

debt burden in poor countries and 

technical advice to developing countries 

on building market-based economies. 

International Programs FY 2009 Budget Highlights 

(Dollars in Thousands) 

International Financial 

Institutions 

Technical 

Assistance 

Debt 

Restructuring Total 

FY 2008 Enacted $1,277,289 $20,235 $30,055 $1,327,578 

Increases/(Decreases) 215,711 4,765 29,945 250,422

FY 2009 Enacted $1,493,000 $25,000 $60,000 $1,578,000 

FY 2010 President's Budget Request $2,341,305 $31,440 $110,630 $2,483,375 

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FY 2010 Program Requests

International Financial Institutions 

(IFIs) ($2,341,305,000) 

The FY 2010 President’s Budget 

requests $2.34 billion to the multilateral 

development banks (MDBs), including 

$600.0 million to the Climate Investment 

Funds and $100.0 million to pay a 

portion of outstanding U.S. arrears, 

which now exceed $1 billion.). 

International Development Association 

(IDA) ($1,320,000,000) 

The request of $1,320.0 million includes 

the second installment of the U.S. threeyear commitment to the IDA15 

replenishment ($1,235.0 million) and 

$85 million to pay down arrears to IDA. 

Through IDA, the World Bank supports 

78 of the world’s poorest countries by 

providing the largest source of interestfree loans, grants and debt relief of any 

multilateral development institution. 

Major IDA15 initiatives and policy 

reforms include: an expanded results 

measurement system; improvements to 

World Bank engagement in fragile and 

post-conflict states, measures to further 

improve debt sustainability, and progress 

towards greater transparency and 

accountability at the institution. IDA 

funding is also necessary to meet the 

U.S. share of the costs of debt relief for 

the poorest indebted countries through 

the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative 

(MDRI). 

Global Environment Facility (GEF) 

($86,500,000) 

The FY 2010 President’s Budget 

requests $80.0 million for the final 

installment to the fourth replenishment 

of the Global Environment Facility 

(GEF-4) and an additional $6.5 million 

to pay off a portion on U.S. arrears to the 

GEF. The GEF is the leading 

multilateral financier of projects in 

developing countries benefiting the 

global environment. It provides partial 

funding for projects in six environmental 

sectors, including projects that reduce 

greenhouse gas emissions, conserve 

global biodiversity, and prevent or 

reduce the release of long-lived, toxic 

chemicals. The GEF also helps 

developing countries strengthen their 

environmental management capacity 

enabling their economies to grow in a 

more environmentally sustainable 

manner. The GEF serves as the financial 

mechanism of the United Nations 

Framework Convention on Climate 

Change (UNFCCC) and several other 

international environmental conventions, 

and its role is expected to increase in the 

post-Kyoto Protocol period. 

Climate Investment Funds (CIF) 

($600,000,000) 

The request provides $600.0 million to 

the Climate Investment Funds, two new 

multilateral trust funds at the World 

Bank. $500.0 million is for the Clean 

Technology Fund (CTF), an effort to 

reduce the growth of greenhouse gas 

emissions in emerging economies by 

catalyzing large-scale private sector 

investments through financing the 

additional costs of commercially 

available cleaner technologies over 

dirtier, conventional alternatives. Efforts 

to create the fund were led by the United 

States, the United Kingdom, and Japan 

with considerable input and support 

from other donor and potential recipient 

countries, including China, India, and 

Brazil. The remaining $100.0 million is 

for the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF), 

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which will help to pilot new, 

transformative approaches to adaptation, 

forestry, and energy for the poor. CTF 

and SCF will serve as interim measures 

to immediately address climate 

challenges in developing countries and 

to constructively inform the 

development of a post-Kyoto 

international climate agreement. 

Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) 

($25,000,000) 

The request of $25.0 million is for the 

fourth installment of the U.S. 

contribution to the first replenishment of 

the MIF. The MIF works directly with 

private sector and public sector partners 

to strengthen the environment for 

business, build the capabilities and skills 

standards of the workforce, and broaden 

the economic participation of smaller 

enterprises. MIF projects incorporate a 

significant degree of counterpart 

financing, with a goal of having 50% of 

project costs financed by local 

counterpart contributions. The MIF is 

providing highly-focused support for 

private sector development in Latin 

America and the Caribbean through the 

provision of technical assistance on 

regulatory and legal reforms, re-training 

of the workforce, and increasing 

productivity and competitiveness of 

small businesses and micro-enterprises. 

Inter-American Investment Corporation 

(IIC) ($4,670,000) 

The request of $4.7 million will cover 

10% of current cumulative U.S. arrears 

to the IIC. Ten percent of U.S. arrears 

must be paid by 2010 in order for the 

United States to not lose capital shares. 

If shares are lost, the United States loses 

considerable authority at the IIC 

including veto over transfers of shares 

among members and charter 

amendments. Also, shares lost by the 

United States will likely be purchased by 

other shareholder countries. The IIC 

promotes private small and medium-size 

enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America and 

the Caribbean. Through a combination 

of direct loans to and equity investments 

in individual companies, lending through 

private local banks, and participation in 

regional equity funds, the IIC helps 

SMEs obtain affordable capital to start 

up, expand, or modernize their 

operations. 

Asian Development Fund (AsDF) 

($115,250,000) 

The request of $115.3 million is for the 

first of four installments of the U.S. 

contribution to the ninth replenishment 

of the AsDF (AsDF10). The AsDF, the 

Asian Development Bank’s concessional 

window, provides development 

financing for investments in 

infrastructure, health, education, 

environment, and private-sector 

development, as well as policy advice to 

the poorest countries in the Asia-Pacific 

region. In the AsDF10 Agreement, the 

United States secured a number of 

important policy reforms, including: the 

completion of a grants framework 

through which grants will comprise 25% 

or more of assistance; a significant 

improvement in the results framework 

governing AsDF and AsDB operations; 

strengthened internal oversight and 

safeguards; and increased transparency.

African Development Fund (AfDF) 

($159,885,000) 

The request of $159.9 million includes 

the second of three installments of the 

U.S. contribution to the AfDF11 

replenishment ($156.1 million) and $3.8 

million to pay down arrears to AfDF10. 

AfDF is the African Development 

Bank’s concessional window and serves 

40 of the poorest countries in Africa, by 

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providing interest-free loans, grants and 

debt relief. Funding of the U.S. AfDF11 

commitment is needed to ensuring that 

reforms championed by the United 

States during the replenishment process, 

such as the performance-based allocation 

system and the results-measuring 

system, are implemented fully. AfDF11 

also created a Fragile States Facility to 

provide additional assistance to postconflict countries to accelerate the 

transition process from conflict and 

decline to stability and growth. AfDF 

funding is also necessary to meet the 

U.S. share of the costs of debt relief for 

the poorest indebted countries through 

the MDRI. 

International Fund for Agricultural Development 

(IFAD) ($30,000,000) 

The request of $30.0 million will cover 

the first of three payments of the U.S. 

contribution to IFAD’s eighth 

replenishment. IFAD is the only 

multilateral development institution 

focused exclusively on reducing rural 

poverty and hunger through improving 

agricultural productivity. Because of its 

mission and expertise, IFAD plays a key 

role in supporting the renewed focus on 

agricultural development, as well as 

responding to the food price crisis. 

Although prices have fallen from their 

peak, the rural poor remain profoundly 

vulnerable to the volatility of food, 

fertilizer, and food prices. IFAD8 makes 

key commitments to a number of U.S. 

priorities: a strengthened results 

measurement framework; human 

resources reform; a renewed 

performance-based allocation system; 

and a commitment to developing a 

comprehensive environmental strategy 

that will help poor farmers adapt to the 

likely impacts of climate change. 

Debt Restructuring ($110,630,000) 

The FY 2010 President’s Budget 

requests $110.63 million for the cost of 

debt restructuring programs, including 

bilateral Heavily Indebted Poor 

Countries (HIPC) initiative debt 

reduction, the HIPC Trust Fund, and the 

Tropical Forest Conservation Act 

(TFCA). The enhanced HIPC initiative 

was launched to provide deeper, broader, 

and faster debt reduction for the poor, 

heavily-indebted countries that have 

made a real commitment to economic 

reform and poverty reduction. For the 

poorest and most heavily indebted 

countries, the United States will continue 

support for bilateral debt relief though 

the Paris Club of official creditors and 

the enhanced HIPC Initiative. The 

Administration requests a total of $90.63 

million in funding for the cost of debt 

restructuring programs, including 

bilateral HIPC and poorest country debt 

reduction and the HIPC Trust Fund. 

Under the enhanced HIPC initiative, 

funding is needed to complete United 

States bilateral debt reduction for the 

Democratic Republic of the Congo 

(DRC) when the DRC reaches its HIPC 

Completion Point. Funding is also 

needed to help satisfy the $75.4 million 

in outstanding U.S. pledges to the HIPC 

Trust Fund to support debt relief from 

the regional development banks. $20.0 

million is requested for the Tropical 

Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) which 

authorizes debt relief for low and 

middle-income countries to support 

conservation of tropical forests. Under 

the program, treated debt is “redirected” 

to enable a forest fund in the beneficiary 

country to make grants to local NGOs 

and other entities engaged in forest 

conservation. The United States uses 

appropriated funds to pay for the budget 

cost of this debt reduction/redirection. 

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Technical Assistance ($31,440,000) 

The FY 2010 President’s Budget 

requests $31.440 million for the cost of 

the Department of Treasury’s 

International Affairs Technical 

Assistance Program. Through the Office 

of Technical Assistance (OTA), U.S. 

Treasury provides highly experienced 

financial advisors to reform-minded 

developing countries, transitional 

economies, and nations recovering from 

conflict. The program supports 

economic policy and financial 

management reforms, focusing on five 

core areas: budget and financial 

accountability; tax policy and 

administration; government debt 

issuance and management; banking and 

financial institutions; and economic 

crimes. The FY 2010 budget request, 

which is $6.4 million higher than the 

enacted level for FY 2009, will support 

approximately 70 technical assistance 

projects worldwide. This increase is 

justified by the growing need for 

Treasury technical assistance from 

countries directly affected by the 

international financial crisis and to 

maintain support for low-income 

countries (primarily in Africa and Latin 

America.), many of which are under 

increased stress due to the global 

economic downturn and other indirect 

effects of the financial crisis. There is 

strong demand for U.S. Treasury’s 

technical assistance because of the 

program’s ability to field highly 

experienced advisors quickly. Based on 

currently available information, Treasury 

foresees financial-crisis related 

assistance needs in Central and Eastern 

Europe, Latin America, Africa, and 

certain parts of Asia. Funding to support 

Treasury technical assistance in Iraq and 

Afghanistan is not included in this 

request. Funding for Iraq and 

Afghanistan will be part of a broader 

interagency package that reflects the 

administration’s strategy in these 

countries. 

Explanation of Programs 

International Financial Institutions 

($2,341,305,000 from direct appropriations) 

International Financial Institutions (IFIs) 

provide loans, grants and investments to 

developing and transition economies to 

promote growth and poverty reduction 

through their support of public and 

private projects, programs, and policy 

reforms. The IFIs are responding to the 

financial crisis by accelerating grants 

and lending programs; leveraging 

resources of donor governments, 

bilateral aid agencies and private sector 

investors; providing guarantees for trade 

finance; and coordinating assistance 

from diverse sources. 

Debt Restructuring ($110,630,000 from 

direct appropriations) 

Debt Restructuring for the poorest 

countries provides an incentive to 

implement macro-economic and 

structural reforms necessary for 

economic growth and also frees up 

resources for poverty reduction efforts. 

Debt reduction under the Tropical Forest 

Conservation Act allows for reduction of 

U.S. concessional debt and redirection of 

payments in local currency in eligible 

countries to support programs to 

conserve tropical forests. 

International Affairs Technical Assistance 

($31,440,000 from direct appropriations) 

International Affairs Technical 

Assistance provides financial advisors to 

countries seeking assistance in 

implementing significant economic 

reforms, especially during critical 

periods of transition to market-based 

economies. The program supports 

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economic policy and financial 

management reforms focusing on the 

functional areas of budget, revenue, 

government debt, financial institutions 

and financial crimes law enforcement. 

International Monetary Fund 

Realigning IMF quotas is part of a larger 

effort to reform the Fund's governance 

structure to ensure country voting 

weights reflect the rapid growth and 

increasing significance of dynamic 

emerging economies. Because the 

Fund's overall quota resources will be 

expanded to facilitate the realignment, 

an increase in the U.S. nominal quota is 

necessary to keep the U.S. voting share 

constant at 16.7 percent of total voting 

power in the Fund, and thus maintain our 

leadership role and our ability to shape 

the future of the institution. 

The present financial crisis demonstrates 

that, in a world of globalization and 

substantial international capital flows, 

the magnitude of crises can be larger 

than in earlier decades. The IMF does 

not have sufficient resources to cope 

with the problems facing member 

countries in today's world. The G-20 

has called for a very substantial increase 

in the IMF New Arrangements to 

Borrow (NAB) and expanding NAB 

membership to more G-20 countries. 

Consistent with the budgetary treatment 

recommended by the President's 

Commission on Budget Concepts in 

1967, the U.S. transactions with the IMF 

under the quota and NAB are monetary 

exchanges that would not increase the 

deficit in any year. 

Description of Performance 

International Financial Institutions

Responding to Financial and Food 

Crises 

The IFIs have responded aggressively to 

the financial and food crises of the last 

year and full funding of the FY 2010 

request for the MDBs is necessary to 

help ensure that they continue to assist 

developing countries withstand the 

impact of these crises and meet other 

pressing needs. To counter the impact of 

the financial crisis, IFIs are taking a 

number of steps to support emerging 

market governments, the poorest 

countries, and the developing world’s 

private sector. For example, to meet the 

critical needs of the poorest countries the 

IFIs are making up to $3 billion in 

concessional resources available faster 

than these window’s replenishments 

originally planned. The IFIs have also 

made a concerted effort to support the 

private sector, including new 

investments of over $13 billion in bank 

recapitalization and liquidity facilities, 

trade finance, and infrastructure 

financing. 

 

The IFIs have also responded with a 

number of initiatives and programs to 

respond to emerging food and 

agricultural needs. The World Bank 

approved a $1.2 billion Global Food 

Crisis Response Program in May 2008, 

the African Development Bank is 

seeking to provide up to $600 million in 

support for food crisis response and 

prevention, and the Asian Development 

Bank is planning to provide up to $500 

million in budgetary support over the 

next year to strengthening social safety 

net programs and facilitate access to 

agricultural inputs. Finally, the 

International Fund for Agricultural 

Development approved approximately 

$650 million in loans and grants in 2008, 

a 10% increase over 2007, including 

$200 million to give poor farmers access 

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to essential inputs such as seed and 

fertilizer. 

Reforms within International Financial 

Institutions

Through U.S. leadership in the IFI 

replenishment negotiations, key policy 

reforms were initiated, reinforced and 

extended in the international financial 

institutions. In recent years, these 

reforms included: 

• Increased grant financing for the 

poorest countries at IDA, the AfDF, 

AsDF and other MDBs; 

• Adoption of a debt sustainability 

framework to provide increased 

grant resources for the poorest 

countries and to help break the lendand-forgive cycle of development 

assistance; 

• Development of robust results-based 

management systems to incorporate 

measurable performance goals and 

demonstrate positive results on the 

ground; 

• Improvement of performance based 

allocation systems to maintain the 

centrality of performance in the 

distribution of resources; and 

• Increased efforts to promote greater 

transparency and combat corruption 

at institutional, project, country and 

regional levels. 

Debt Relief 

The 2005 Multilateral Debt Relief 

Initiative – a landmark debt relief effort 

– will cancel 100 percent of debt 

obligations owed to the World Bank’s 

International Development Association, 

the African Development Fund, and the 

IMF by the world’s poorest and most 

heavily indebted countries. Through 

U.S. efforts, a similar debt relief 

initiative was approved in 2007 for the 

Fund for Special Operations at the InterAmerican Development Bank. This 

initiative will provide critical debt relief 

to Bolivia, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras and 

Nicaragua, helping to end the lend-andforgive-cycle development assistance, 

while freeing-up funds for other poverty 

reduction efforts. 

Results Measurement 

Results measurement systems have been 

expanded significantly through the 

IDA14 and 15, AfDF10 and 11, and 

AsDF9 and 10 replenishment 

agreements which adopt clear, 

measurable goals and targets, and 

results-based management processes and 

standards. The management for results 

agenda emphasizes measures to 

strengthen the focus on delivering 

positive development results on the 

ground and the institutional management 

policies and procedures required to 

deliver them. A two-tiered results 

measurement framework is in place in 

IDA and the AfDF to measure, monitor, 

and report on outcomes and outputs at 

the project, country, regional and 

institutional levels. The AsDF 

replenishment agreement went further to 

cover the entire institution (that is, both 

tha AsDF and AsDB) across a fourtiered results measurement framework.

Transparency and Fighting Corruption 

Through U.S. leadership, the MDBs 

have continued strong efforts to improve 

transparency, including disclosure of 

MDB documents and processes, and to 

fight corruption at the project, country 

and institutional levels. For example, 

the World Bank is fully implementing 

the recommendations made in the 2007 

Volcker Panel Report which was a 

review and evaluation of the work and 

oversight mechanisms of the Bank’s 

Department of Institutional Integrity. 

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Debt Restructuring 

The Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor 

Country (HIPC) Initiative continues to 

make more resources available to poor, 

heavily indebted countries, while 

providing a framework for growth 

enhancing reforms. Thirty-three 

countries demonstrated sufficient 

progress to reach their HIPC Decision 

Points as of the end of FY 2008. 

Creditors have committed to reduce the 

external debt of these 33 countries by 

over $68 billion (nominal terms) under 

the HIPC framework, freeing resources 

to support poverty reduction and 

economic growth, particularly in areas 

prioritized in their Poverty Reduction 

Strategy. In 2000, poverty-reducing 

expenditures in the post-Decision Point 

HIPCs were only about 50% larger than 

debt service payments. Consistent with 

the goal of increasing poverty reducing 

expenditures, by 2007 poverty reducing 

expenditures were estimated to be over 

eight times as large as debt service 

payments. 

Under the Tropical Forest Conservation 

Act (TFCA), a total of 14 agreements 

have now been signed with 12 countries, 

generating more than $188 million over 

time for tropical forest conservation. 

The TFCA debt swap mechanism has 

also developed a unique public/private 

partnership in which environmental 

NGOs provide additional funds for debt 

reduction, increasing the size of 

individual agreements, and contributing 

additional expertise in the management 

of resulting programs. 

Technical Assistance 

The Office of Technical Assistance 

(OTA) continues to provide financial 

technical assistance worldwide; 

currently 49 resident projects and 55 

intermittent projects are being conducted 

in 48 countries around the globe. OTA 

programming in counterpart countries 

strengthens laws, systems, and processes 

and sustains financial institutions 

(ministries, banks, bond markets, 

financial crime investigation and 

prosecution, and revenue collection). 

While OTA sometimes assists in policy 

development, its principal focus is on 

practical applications such as: drafting 

laws and regulations to reform financial 

and administrative policies; establishing 

procedures for auditing large taxpayer 

accounts; setting up bond markets; 

building working financial intelligence 

units on detection and prosecution of 

crime; or closing non-performing banks. 

In most projects, OTA assists transition 

and developing countries to build strong 

government systems and services that 

increase financial integrity, build 

capacity (both human and systems), 

integrate public and private aspects of 

the economy, eliminate weak or nonfunctioning organizations of government 

financial management, draft improved 

legislation, and fight corruption and 

terrorist financing. Some projects are 

assist countries with weak and fragile 

financial systems. In FY 2008, OTA 

provided assistance to 17 countries in 

various states of HIPC completion– 

Afghanistan, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, 

Haiti, Honduras, the Kyrgyz Republic, 

Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, 

Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, 

Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Uganda, 

and Zambia. In some instances, OTA 

acts as a first-responder in conflict and 

post-conflict countries (as it did and 

continues to do in Afghanistan, Bosnia, 

Kosovo, and Iraq). In such cases, the 

OTA projects become part of the 

military-civilian struggle to bring an end 

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to the chaos of war and take steps toward 

reestablishing civil society through the 

building of strong government financial 

systems. 

Examples of results achieved by OTA in 

FY 2008: 

A regional project supported the Latin 

America Small Business Lending 

Initiative (LASBI) to increase the 

number of loans made to small 

businesses and micro-finance 

institutions, and leverage the $20.5 

million non-reimbursable line of credit 

extended by the Inter-American 

Development Bank. Support provided in 

Paraguay to the Central Bank and the 

Ministry of Finance resulted in 

development of the country’s first 

National Debt Strategy. In Niger, the tax 

administration gave significant credit to 

OTA assistance in raising tax revenues 

from 10.3% to 11.7% over a two-year 

period. The OTA Debt project in 

Rwanda has resulted in issuance of two 

and three year government bonds; and 

set the stage for corporate issuance of a 5 

year bond. Through an Economic 

Crimes project, the Philippines has been 

removed from the Non-Cooperating 

Countries and Territories list, become a 

member of the Egmont group and of the 

Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific 

Group (FATF), and completed training 

for 1,000 law enforcement personnel. 

OTA recommended eighteen improved 

performance indicators to the 

government of Costa Rica that have 

proved so effective in pilot ministries 

that they are being expanded to 

government-wide application. A 

Revenue project in Honduras has 

resulted in a planned government rollout of civil service reform including 

legal prohibitions against non-merit 

based human resources decisions. 

Improvements in Nicaragua’s tax 

administration recommended by OTA 

resulted in a 34% ($10.6 million) 

increase in enforced collections from 

January to August 2008. 

Although it is difficult to measure 

activities related to such varied technical 

assistance projects (quantitative 

measures fail to fully describe the impact 

of this important work), OTA conducted 

three separate organizational evaluation 

efforts in FY 2008: a systematic 

client/customer survey; a program peer 

revue carried out by the Australian 

Treasury; and a revised measurement 

system approved by OMB and 

highlighted as an innovative practice at 

the annual Excellence in Government 

conference. Each of these performance 

evaluation initiatives provided both 

positive confirmation of OTA’s past and 

current effectiveness, and has provided 

precise information on areas where 

further program strengthening may be 

realized. 

 

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