It's hard to track, because it's all nice websites with generic messages like "we make life better" and pictures with obligatory diversity faces. E.g. $4.5 billion here chemonics.com. Or $3 billion here devalt.org. Where did these money go? How can we measure the ROI?
USAID is a corrupt wasteful sinkhole, good riddance to it.
That was DOGE's job to tell us why and what, and they did none of that. Why is cutting millions to starving people in 3rd world countries a good thing? Why is cutting AIDs funding for similar situations a good thing? save millions now, pay billions later as these situations destabilize and make new terrorists and wars.
How many of these "millions" that are cut, is actual food for starving people in 3rd world? If it's that good, how much did they closer neighbors contribute?
USAID looking for an ROI???? THat's NOT the purpose of aiding other countries. You don't need to look for a return on an investment. USAid was feeding children in places. You're looking for an ROI on saving human lives. Learn empathy.
Empathy seems to be in rare supply these days. I've made the mistake of talking to these people about the human collateral of these decisions and it's waved off like I'm bringing up an unpleasant experience in a checkout line.
It's surprising to me that not more of them object to Radio Liberty and its siblings getting ratfucked, since those channels are both rather cheap and obviously in the interest of whatever regime has the White House.
Running Twitter bots can't compete with the deep reach and influence that was built up there over many decades.
Isn't saving lives and feeding children ROI? I think the parent comment was stating that these things were not measured and therefore the ROI should absolutely be known.
You should always measure the impact of the things you do and the money you spend, you should never just say "we're trying to do this and so the money should always flow". If you and trying to feed children you should be able to estimate the number of meals you provide and if that number is too low you should stop getting money.
I'm not commenting on USAID cuts in particular here, but your comment struck me as being rather strange.
Oh interesting, look it's our empathy beacon right here.
Have you ever tried to figure out where did these money go? People like you keep parroting "feeding children", but when I read actual list of orgs funded by USAID, it's all nice words and stock pictures with very little actual data.
Yes, I look for metrics like for that N million dollars M thousand kids were fed. Without that it looks like corrupt sink hole, that it actually is.
Learn empathy, send me $100 monthly, I promise to spend them for good.
USAID is a corrupt wasteful sinkhole, good riddance to it.