Government Regulators Expose Ivanka Trump’s Sham Women Empowerment Initiative

[GMDino]

Apparently the completely unqualified to hold the position Ivanka wasn't very good at the position.

Weird.

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/03/31/ivanka-trump-gao.html

Quote:A Government Accountability Office report found that Ivanka Trump’s women’s empowerment initiative did not adequately track funds and couldn’t even determine what was a woman-owned business.



The report states, “USAID has not developed a process to support compliance with statutory requirements to target MSME resources to activities that reach the very poor and to small and medium-sized enterprise resources to activities that reach enterprises owned, managed, and controlled by women. We identified three key gaps that impair USAID’s ability to develop such a process. First, USAID has not identified the total funding subject to the targeting requirements. Second, although USAID has programs designed to help the very poor, it is unable to determine the amount of funding that reaches this group. Third, although USAID has MSME activities that benefit women, it has not defined enterprises owned, managed, and controlled by women and does not collect data by enterprise size.”

Ivanka Trump spent years while working in the White House claiming that she was tracking the spending and efficient use of the funds.

She wasn’t.
Trump didn’t even know how much money was going to poor women, or if the businesses receiving aid were minority-owned.


One of the benefits of Joe Biden winning the presidency is that the American people can now find out how deeply the Trump corruption, incompetence, and ineptitude went.



Ivanka Trump’s pet project was a mismanaged sham just like everything else that the Trump family touches.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-269.pdf

Quote:USAID Needs to Develop a Targeting Process and Improve the Reliability of Its Monitoring 

What GAO Found 



For fiscal years 2015 through 2020, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) generally planned to spend at least $265 million annually on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) assistance, according to annual reports to Congress known as Section 653(a) reports. We found that planned spending amounts for MSME assistance in operational plans differed from the spending plans in the Section 653(a) reports, with the total planned spending exceeding the annual Section 653(a) report levels. 

USAID has not developed a process to support compliance with statutory requirements to target MSME resources to activities that reach the very poor and to small and medium-sized enterprise resources to activities that reach enterprises owned, managed, and controlled by women. We identified three key gaps that impair USAID’s ability to develop such a process. First, USAID has not identified the total funding subject to the targeting requirements. Second, although USAID has programs designed to help the very poor, it is unable to determine the amount of funding that reaches this group. Third, although USAID has MSME activities that benefit women, it has not defined enterprises owned, managed, and controlled by women and does not collect data by enterprise size. These gaps leave USAID unable to determine what percentage of its MSME resources is going to the very poor and enterprises owned, managed, and controlled by women. USAID-Funded Small Enterprise Activities in Georgia, Afghanistan, and Ghana