60-Day Notice for Assessing Needs Across IAF Grantees in the Northern Triangle (PRA)

AGENCY:

Inter-American Foundation.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF), as part of its continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This program helps ensure that requested data is provided in the desired format; reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized; collection instruments are clearly understood; and the impact of collection requirements on respondents is properly assessed.

DATES:

Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the address section below within 60 days from the date of this publication in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES:

Send comments to Raquel Gomes, Inter-American Foundation, via email to rgomes@iaf.gov and Jenna Glickman, Inter-American Foundation, via email to jglickman@iaf.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The IAF is seeking to learn from its experience in funding grantees across El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras (the “Northern Triangle) in recent years. The agency has performance monitoring data across the Northern Triangle that reflects how well individual grantees are implementing their projects toward desired outcomes. The IAF seeks to understand how the agency can further improve its support through a grantee survey as they seek to generate alternatives to forced migration. Having this systematic information will help guide IAF decisions on how to better support these efforts in the Northern Triangle.

The IAF is particularly interested in comments which:

—Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility;

—Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;

—Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and

—Can help the agency minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.