The United States’ shifting international priorities will lead to significant staffing changes at the U.S. Agency for International Development, budget documents suggest.
The world’s top bilateral donor is eager to focus more of its employees on Africa and Asia, with the plan of having six out of ten staff members working in these regions within the next year or so, the White House’s budget proposal for fiscal 2014 indicates.
About 350 employees would be pulled out of Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and Eurasia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.