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FOREIGN RELATIONS, 19 5 0, VOLUME T


which have participated actively in ACTA have assumed with good
reason it represents State Department's position.
  The approved management plan provides that a general manager
within the State Department shall have authority to approve all
projects and allocate funds for such projects. It provides that there
shall be established a program board (successor to ACTA) which
would be advisory to the general manager. Basic responsibility for
program planning would -be in the State Department and its field
missions. However, ideas for projects might originate in other agen-
cies. In all cases, however, program plans would be approved by the
Regional Bureau concerned as well as by the general manager.
  Once a project is approved the general manager will determine
  which -agency (UNA," US, or private) is best suited to carry out the
  project. Funds would then be allocated to such agency which in turn
  would recruit the necessary technicians, send them to the State De-
  partment for training and then to the field. The management plan
  contemplates that the agency receiving the funds for -a project would
  provide the technical assistance and backstop for its specialists but
  that in the field they would be under the administrative supervision
  of the State Department mission (see Tab B-Summary of the-Man-
  agement Plan which is contained in thebud-get statementf7).
  Periodic reports would be rendered on each project to the general
  manager through the regional bureau concerned. No changes could
  be made in a project without the concurrence of the regional bureau
  and the approval of the general manager.
  2. The IIAA Proposal
  Unquestionably, a straight line operation within the Department
  of State such as proposed by Mr. Glick. is much- to-be preferred from
  a management standpoint and probably would result in a more oeffec-
  tive program. However, it would not be feasible politically to make
  such a radical change at this late date-it is doubtful that sucha .move
  would have been feasible at any time in view of the developmental
  history. Glick's paper (Tab C 7) considerably exaggerates the defects
  of the management plan. First of all there will be not more than ten
  rather than 25 agencies actively participating. Secondly, the program
  board will be advisory only. It will not run'the 'program.Thirdly,-it
  is not correct to say that responsibility for the conduct of-the program
  will be separate from responsibility for program planning. Other
  agencies will be responsible for technical backstop but this can be

  Refers presumably to multilateral programs for technical assistance under
the
  auspices of the United Nations, which would be a concern of theDepartment's
  Bureau of United Nations Affairs (UNA).
    Not printed.