OVERVIEW OF CONFERENCE EXPENSES
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-17-08 amending M-12-12, Promoting Efficient Spending to Support Agency Operations, directs agencies to report conference expenses for the previous fiscal year on their public websites. This report provides a summary of expenses incurred by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for conferences held during Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, along with more detailed information on conferences where the net expenses associated with the event exceeded $100,000.
During FY 2022, USAID sponsored three conferences totalling $237,004.92 with an average per participant cost of $189.91. A total of 647 USAID employees participated in these events, along with 1,248 outside participants. USAID sponsored one conference with expenses in excess of $100,000. Per Memorandum M‐17-08, additional information is provided on these conferences. M‐17-08 also requires that agencies publish the rationale and approval to incur expenses exceeding $500,000 on a single conference. USAID did not sponsor conferences that exceeded this threshold during FY 2022.
