[T]hese major reform priorities depend upon our ability to cut the time our staff spends filling out paperwork, increasing the time they're able to spend in the field and with our partner organizations. And so we will look to Clinton to help spearhead our bureaucracy busting initiative, with the goal of saving our Agency staff members millions of hours collectively. Our Agency already tackles the world's toughest challenges. Needless bureaucracy should not be one of them.
Samantha Power: “[T]hese major reform priorities depend upon our ability to cut the time our staff spends filling out paperwork…”
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Power emphasizes the need to reduce bureaucratic inefficiencies at USAID.
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