Ivanka Trump Women Empowerment Pet Project Failed Miserably

Anyone in office would be tasked to have a project to help out the extremely poor women in the world. Former first daughter Ivanka Trump tried to do that but it appears her efforts did not pay off. The women empowerment initiative allegedly went in a different direction according to a report.

It will be recalled that Ivanka Trump launched the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative at global conferences. It eventually became part of the Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 2018 at the U.S. Agency for International Development according to a report from Politico.

The goal of the initiative is to come up with a cohesive program and use the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to help extremely poor women across the world. But in a report, it appears that the opposite was happening after conducting an audit. It appears Ivanka’s pet project did not closely monitor the project leading to questions on the funds and its results.

At least 19 women empowerment programs were launched in 2019 as part of the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative. However, there were extensive failures that covered financial management and how its efficiency was measured.

It comes as no surprise that a former Trump official tried to pin the blame on something else. The unnamed official tried to pin the blame on the Barack Obama administration, alleging that the whole thing was in a mess and that there was no clear purpose.

However, that is not seen as an excuse for Ivanka Trump’s program not to see improvements to that case – assuming that it was indeed disorganized. The best solution would have been to consolidate all of them under one umbrella and deliver a more efficient way to make the program fly.

Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the case. One of the major efforts of the Trump administration was to help out Colombian women. The push was hardly smooth and there were problems along the way.

The GAO points out how some projects such as the USAID's Colombian funding of a Productive Entrepreneurship for Peace program and a Rural Finance Initiative failed to meet the WEEE Act requirement to fund the very poor directly.