9. Agency for International Development · Minor
Create a USAID recruiting program for veterans and missionaries
Printed page 279 9. Agency for International Development
“Finally, the Administration should create a recruiting program for veterans and other groups to participate in career job opportunities at USAID. Former missionaries, veterans, members of diasporas, and faith community stakeholders with overseas experience should be recruited to work at USAID on Schedule A appointments, as Institutional Services Contractors, as Personal Services Contractors, and as Foreign Service Officers.”
What has happened
- Not started
No recruiting program for veterans, former missionaries, diaspora members or faith-community stakeholders was created at USAID, and no Schedule A authority was established for them. Cluster negative search A, plus a grep of the ~68,000 URLs in `state.gov/sitemap.xml`: "veteran" returns one page, the Office of Global Partnerships' Veterans Innovation Partnership, which predates the window; "diaspora" returns only meetings with Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs and a pre-window IdEA evaluation; "missionary" returns nothing. No USAID hiring of any kind is recorded — the agency's own notice of 16 September 2025 reports "a reduction-in-force of nearly all USAID personnel".
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Related: #719 (recruiting into term-limited Schedule A positions, especially veterans, Chapter 9 p. 271) asks for the same hires by a different route.
- Action
- create
- Object
- USAID recruiting program for veterans, missionaries, and diaspora members
- ID
- 753