We’re already reforming foreign aid

Walter Pincus’s call for a “review” of U.S. foreign aid programs [“A closer look at State Department spending,” Fine Print, Oct. 3] would be spot on except it has already happened.

We are two years into an unprecedented effort to reform our diplomatic and development programs. We have just marked the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s signing of the first policy directive on development, which set in motion a process across the U.S. government to make foreign aid more focused on economic growth and more selective, accountable, and responsive to the needs of people we are trying to help.

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Also, the U.S. Agency for International Development has launched an aggressive effort to remake itself as a more effective agency by reforming procurement, bolstering monitoring and evaluation, and increasing transparency.

These reform efforts aim to make sure we get more out of every dollar we spend on development.  

George Ingram, Washington

The writer is co-chair of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.