Evaluating security assistance programs
Subtitle: performance evaluation and the Expanded International Military Education and Training (E-IMET) program
By: Todd R. Calhoun
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Description: In 1991 the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program was expanded to include training      programs focusing on civilian control over the military, respect for human rights, and responsible defense      resource management. In 1993 Congress institutionalized the federal government's commitment to performance      measurement by signing into law the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). GPRA requires the      Departments of State and Defense to demonstrate the results achieved by programs such as Expanded IMET      (E-IMET). The purpose of this study is to address how the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) can      tackle the challenge of measuring the effectiveness of the E-IMET program. A spectrum of approaches exists to      evaluate public programs and is anchored on one end by the "technically rational paradigm" and on the opposite      end by the "politically rational paradigm." By organizing the security assistance objectives of key E-IMET      stakeholders into a Global Hierarchy the researcher was able to link the E-IMET program to national level      goals, creating an objective baseline from which to measure the performance of the program. Individual      objectives hierarchies were then created for each E-IMET objective and performance indices were proposed      to meet the requirements of the GPRA mandate.
Notes: "December 1998."

Thesis advisor(s): Nancy C. Roberts, Francois Melese.

Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130)

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US Marine Corps (USMC) author.

dk/dk cc:9116 12/3/98.