The U.S. military spent $2.3 billion through the Commander's Emergency Response Program during the war in Afghanistan, but the program's results are unknown due to a lack of effective measures and data, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. As a result of CERP's ineffectiveness, SIGAR recommends that any similar program in the future "should incorporate measures of effectiveness into its monitoring and evaluation processes, and civil affairs personnel should be trained on these processes," according to a...
