The U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power is on a “burden busting” crusade that aims to free up staff time — a lot of it — and eliminate bureaucratic red tape.
Launching the agency’s new policy framework on Thursday, Power took aim at “the needless bureaucracy that ties the hands of our staff, that keeps people chained to desks instead of out in the world with our partners, with local organizations, finding those local organizations.”
“We are aiming to return three million hours of our workforce’s time to them within the next year simply through the elimination of red tape and paperwork and other administrative burdens,” she said.