Foreign Policy’s, The Cable, has some clues on the USAID revamp, released in an email to USAID employees yesterday. They write:
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah is moving ahead with his promise to give the agency back its capability to think strategically by building an official policy planning staff. “This new bureau, bolstered by the agency’s many technical assets, represents an essential step toward achieving President Barack Obama’s and Secretary Clinton’s vision of regaining USAID’s status as a premier development agency,” Shah wrote in an email to all USAID employees Monday.
For now, Lawrence (Larry) Garber will head up the effort as the acting assistant to the administrator for the brand new Bureau of Policy Planning and Learning. Garber will be one of two deputy assistant administrators in the bureau, Shah said. He has had a long career in development, including as CEO of the New Israel Fund from 2004 to 2009.
The new policy bureau will essentially consolidate policy-planning functions that were previously spread out in various parts of USAID, but good spots are still open … so USAID employees, there’s still time to get your applications in.
