ABSTRACT
This chapter describes what happened to the twelve projects as they moved through the Agency for International Development (AID) review/approval process. It identifies the major sources of delay affecting the movement of projects through the system and explains the causes of these delays. The chapter examines some preliminary conclusions regarding the way the system functioned as the twelve projects moved through it. There are several ways to deal with the problem and still satisfy the approving offices within AID/Washington who rely heavily on the General Counsel. A number of changes have been made in AID review/approval procedures. In June 1976 new procedures were introduced into the AID project review system "to ensure that environmental factors and values are integrated into the decision making process and to assign responsibility within the Agency for assessing the environmental impacts of AID's actions. Among the twelve projects reviewed in this report, the Afghanistan project encountered the greatest resistance within the AID review/approval system.
