Grants Management
USAID was an active participant in the Grants Management Line of Business (GMLoB) Task Force in FY 2004 and 2005. The final meeting of the Task Force was held on January 31, 2005, and the Task Force efforts laid the framework for the new governance model as well as the funding and transition strategy for the Business Case. On March 30, 2005, USAID executed its agreement with GSA (OMB's designated holder of funding) for $16,625 as our contribution to begin implementation of the GMLoB Business Case.
In FY 2004, we made great progress on the Grants.gov initiative. We trained over 100 grants officers and business partners during the year. We successfully piloted our implementation of the "Find" and "Apply" features of Grants.gov worldwide. We are continuing to coordinate all Grants.gov activities with USAID's PMO and with the government-wide project officer at HHS.
As stated in last year's PAR, we do not see any current statutory impediments to USAID's compliance with OMB policies relating to grants streamlining and Grants.gov. However, we anticipate that full utilization of Grants.gov will be a challenge for potential business partners, particularly those overseas. In FY 2006, we plan special outreach activities to make potential partners aware of the Grants.gov portal.
The USAID program portfolio for Assistance and Cooperative Agreements is estimated to be almost 50% of the Agency's acquisition and assistance workload. As a result, grants administration accounts for approximately 50% of an Agreement Officer's workload.
Lisa Fiely, USAID CFO, checks out an agriculture project in El Salvador.
Photo: USAID/Bob Bonnaffon
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