Fiscal Year 2011 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations
The FY 2011 Foreign Operations Budget Request reflects the continuing process to provide improved
strategic focus, data quality, and information on topics of greater Congressional interest.
Highlights
Improved Bureau and Country Narratives: A number of changes to bureau and country narratives in
the FY 2011 Foreign Operations Congressional Budget Justification (CBJ) are designed to make each
narrative more useful to major audiences. First, the Strategic Objective sections for each narrative are
organized by appropriation (e.g., Economic Support Fund, International Military Education and Training,
etc.) to indentify clearly how each appropriation is used to accomplish assistance programs within each
objective.
In addition, because it is important that each operating unit with significant funding requirements be able
to describe the link between performance and budget decision making, a new section has been added to
each Operating Unit narrative to foster that examination. This new section, Performance Information in
the Budget and Planning Process, highlights how performance is assessed, and how performance
information is used to inform budget and planning process and to manage for results.
Global Initiatives and Other Key Interest Areas: The FY 2011 Foreign Operations CBJ provides a
new chapter that examines in greater emphasis and detail several initiatives that are particularly important
to the Administration in the FY 2011 President’s Request: Global Climate Change, Global Health,
Global Hunger and Food Security, and Global Engagement, which is a new initiative this year.
The FY 2011 CBJ also continues to provide detail on issues of shared Congressional and Administration
interest in a chapter on Selected Key Interest Areas that succinctly describes U.S. assistance programs in
each interest area, and lists specific program funding in separate budget tables. The FY 2011 CBJ
expands on key interest analyses by adding two new areas: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Nutrition.
Volume 1 of the Fiscal Year 2011 Congressional Budget Justification for State Operations can be found on the Department of State web site.
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