Audit of USAID/Iraq's Management of the Marla Ruzicka Iraqi War Victims Fund; Audit rept

摘要

Since May 2003, USAID/Iraq has helped Iraqi civilians injured by U.S. and Coalition Forces to piece their lives and livelihoods back together through funding provided by a program known since May 2005 as the Marla Ruzicka Iraqi War Victims Fund (the Marla Fund). According to USAID/Iraq, over 350,000 Iraqis have directly benefited and 1.5 million indirectly benefited from more than 630 completed projects under the Marla Fund and its forerunner fund. The projects have covered costs of providing health care, income generation, and the rehabilitation of destroyed homes, schools, and clinics for civilian victims of the war in Iraq. Many of the projects have helped establish sustainable incomes for families that lost their main breadwinner, while others have provided prosthetics and medical treatment. According to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, who initiated this as well as similar funds in other war-torn countries, the Marla Fund shows the Iraqi people, the face of a compassionate America.