The Office of Civil Rights and Diversity (OCRD) provides leadership, strategic direction, guidance, technical assistance, and advice regarding the Agency’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program, which includes the EEO Complaints, Anti-Harassment, Affirmative Employment, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Reasonable Accommodation, and Diversity and Inclusion Programs at USAID in accordance with federal laws, regulations, directives, Executive Orders, guidance, and Agency policies. OCRD organized an action team to create this MD-715 report, track progress toward planned activities, and analyze workforce data tables to identify and address any triggers leading up to barriers of employment.
Using the results of the data analysis, the MD-715 team in partnership with representatives from across the Agency analyzed USAID’s policies, practices, and procedures while assessing the Agency’s current efforts to identify and eliminate employment barriers that impede free and open competition in the workplace.
The Self-Assessment Checklist reflects 156 measures that make up the six essential elements of a Model EEO Program. However, there are only 153 applicable measures for USAID shown in the scorecard below. For each deficiency in Part G that requires additional explanation, a corresponding recommendation in Part H includes planned remediation activities. It is important to note that in FY 2020, USAID met 90.85% (139) of the compliance measures as compared to 66.01% (101) measures in FY 2019; an increase of 24.84% (38) measures.
