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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Information Collection Review Request
for OMB Approval: BHA Workplace
Culture Survey
U.S. Agency for International
Development.
AGENCY:
Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
ACTION:
USAID’s Bureau for
Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA)
proposes to survey all members of its
workforce to assess and gauge its
processes for developing and improving
a more cohesive BHA culture. This
survey is also sent to institutional
support contractors (ISCs), which are
part of the USAID workforce but are
members of the public for purposes of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). USAID/BHA invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following new information collection as
it relates to ISCs, as required by the
PRA. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
SUMMARY:
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain.
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DATES:
You may send comments
(titled ‘BHA Workforce Culture Survey
Comments’) by any of the following
methods:
• Email: Kathryn Oberholzer at
koberholzer@usaid.gov.
ADDRESSES:
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• Mail: Kathryn Oberholzer at Bureau
for Humanitarian Assistance, 555 12th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathryn Oberholzer, (571) 212–9899,
koberholzer@usaid.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Type of Information Collection: BHA
Workplace Culture Survey.
Type of Request: Notice for public
comment.
Originating Office: USAID Bureau for
Humanitarian Affairs.
Respondents: BHA personnel,
including ISCs that are not federal
employees for PRA purposes.
Respondent’s Obligation to Respond:
Voluntary.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
400.
Average Time per Response: 15
minutes for survey respondents.
Frequency of Response:
Approximately once per year.
Total Estimated Burden: 100 hours.
Total Estimated Burden Cost: None.
We are soliciting public comments to
permit USAID/BHA to include ISCs in
its workforce survey to assess and gauge
its processes for developing and
improving a more cohesive BHA
culture.
Danielle Mutone Smith,
Managing Director, Bureau for Humanitarian
Assistance.
BHA Culture Survey Questions
**Privacy Act Statement**
Please see the Privacy Act Statement
in its entirety in the ensuing section.
Introduction
As a part of the transformation of the
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
(OFDA) and Food For Peace (FFP) into
BHA in 2020, we enlisted the support of
USAID Staff Care organizational
consultants to both assess the cultures*
of FFP and OFDA, and then engage staff
in the design of a BHA culture that
melds the best of both offices. To that
end, BHA conducted a cultural
assessment survey in March/April 2020,
which has informed Staff Care’s culture
work with BHA offices and senior
management. This culminated in a July
2021 workshop where office
representatives integrated all the officelevel work on culture into a BHA-wide
culture document.
In 2021 BHA conducted a second
culture survey. This survey was
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implemented and analyzed by the
Training Resources Group, Inc. (TRG) to
ensure confidentiality of responses. TRG
analyzed the data and shared results
from the survey with BHA leadership
and staff in early 2022. Subsequently,
BHA Offices held meetings to focus on
individual office results and action
planning discussions.
The 2021 survey provides baseline
data for our 2023 survey. This year’s
survey will allow us to gauge the process
to date on developing a BHA culture.
Your participation is critical, so
please note this survey is confidential.
While we will be requesting
demographic information so that we can
analyze survey responses in a variety of
ways, this information will not be
attached to individuals who respond,
and TRG consultants will be the only
ones with access to the raw data.
(*Culture for the purposes of this
survey means BHA’s values, norms and
behaviors that guide and inform BHA
staff and how we work together.)
(*Culture for the purposes of this
survey means BHA’s values, norms and
behaviors that guide and inform BHA
staff and how we work together.)
Unit defined as: The immediate BHA
team/office/group that you work closest
with.
Bureau leadership defined as: BHA
Front Office, Office directors based in
Washington, DC.
Privacy Act Statement
In accordance with E.O. 14035:
Executive Order on Diversity, Equity,
Inclusion, and Accessibility in the
Federal Workforce, we are collecting
information relating to the culture of
BHA and to the morale of all of our
employees to help inform efforts to
improve workplace culture.
BHA intends to use the voluntarilygiven basic demographic information
along with responses gauging morale
and workplace culture at an aggregate
level to examine where pain points in
BHA’s approach to work may be. With
information about how employees of
different genders, sexual identities,
hiring mechanisms, disability statuses,
and racial or ethnic groups feel about
their unit and BHA’s culture, office and
bureau leadership will be better
informed about how to focus and
prioritize efforts related to culture
change. Identifying how staff feel about
their workplace culture and what factors
are affecting their morale will allow
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leaders at all levels in the bureau to
create a better culture and improve
conditions for groups where needed.
The survey will be sent to staff at their
USAID email address, the survey will
indicate that staff will be asked for their
consent to share demographic data,
which they may decline to provide at
their discretion. Staff will be notified
about the purpose of the collection,
what will be done with the information
provided, and how the information will
be retained and protected.
We will use this information to
inform office and bureau-level follow up
actions. Additionally, leaders at
different levels in the bureau will be
able to use the disaggregated data to
inform their office culture improvement
action plans. We plan to conduct annual
cultural surveys to continue to track and
invest in BHA culture change over time.
Information will not be shared with any
other entity or source, and will not be
used for any other purpose beyond what
is specified here.
In order to isolate the data from
anyone who would have the ability to
identify participants, our consultant
partner, the Training Resources Group,
Inc. (TRG), will execute, house, and
disaggregate the data from this survey,
protecting this information with the
utmost integrity in accordance with
their corporate privacy policies. No PII
will be collected or shared. Two
individuals in TRG will have access to
the raw data only through two-factor
authentication. Further, raw data will be
deleted after one year after which a new
culture survey will be disseminated to
BHA staff.
Proposed Questions
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Demographics
1. For which part of BHA do you work?
a. Office of Field and Response
Operations (FARO)
b. Office of Humanitarian Business
and Management Operations
(HBMO)
c. Office of Technical and Program
Quality (TPQ)
d. Office of Global Policy,
Partnerships, Programs, and
Communications (G3PC)
e. Office of Asia, Latin America, and
the Caribbean (ALAC)
f. Office of Africa (OA)
g. Office of Middle East, North Africa,
and Europe (MENAE)
h. Regional/country based
i. Prefer Not to Respond
2. What is your hiring mechanism?
a. U.S. Personal Services Contracts
(USPSC)
b. USPSC-Support Relief Group
(USPSC–SRG)
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c. Third Country National Personal
Services Contract (TCNPSC)
d. Local Personal Services Contractor
(Local PSC)
e. Foreign Service National (FSN)
f. Political Appointee
g. Civil Service (CS)
h. Foreign Service (FS)
i. Foreign Service Limited (FSL)
j. Civil Service Excepted (CSE)
k. Participating Agency Service
Agreement (PASA)
l. Participating Agency Service
Agreement Detailer (PASA Detailer)
m. Institutional Contractor
n. Fellow
o. Intern
p. Other
q. Prefer Not to Respond
3. How long have you been with BHA
(including OFDA/FFP time)?
a. 0–1 year
b. 1–3 years
c. 4–7 years
d. 8–15 years
e. 15+ years
4. With which racial and ethnic group(s)
do you identify? Please mark all
that apply.
a. Native American or Alaska Native
b. East Asian, South Asian, Southeast
Asian
c. North African/Middle Eastern
d. African
e. Black or African American
f. Hispanix or Latinx
g. White
h. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific
Islander
i. Other
j. Prefer Not to Respond
5. Do you identify as a gender or sexual
minority?
a. Yes, I identify as a gender or sexual
minority.
b. No, I do not identify as a gender or
sexual minority.
c. Prefer Not to Respond
6. How do you describe your disability/
ability status? Please mark all that
apply.
a. Yes, I have a disability for which
I have sought a reasonable
accommodation.
b. Yes, I have a disability for which
I have NOT sought a reasonable
accommodation.
c. No, I do not have a disability.
d. I prefer not to respond.
7. Do you lead, manage or supervise
other members of the BHA
workforce?
a. Yes
b. No
Workplace Culture (Values/Norms/
Behaviors)
8. I feel my workplace values are
aligned with BHA values?
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a. Totally Disagree, Somewhat
Disagree, Neutral, Somewhat Agree,
Totally Agree, No opinion (same
scale for 10–20)
9. I feel that my teammates trust me.
10. I trust my teammates.
11. I feel valued by those in my unit.
12. I value my unit members.
13. (OPTIONAL) My US/Field
counterpart respects my input and
opinions.
a. Optional, if applicable
14. I feel I can disclose a suspected
misconduct, violation of any law,
rule or regulation without fear of
reprisal.
15. What do you most value about BHA
culture? (500 characters)
Leadership
16. Unit leadership listens to and
respects me/my work.
17. I feel that a workforce of all cultures
and backgrounds are made to feel
included and valued in BHA.
18. Bureau leadership and/or regional
office leads create opportunities for
all voices and perspectives to be
heard and valued in an
environment of trust.
19. I feel Bureau and unit leadership
clearly communicate their
decisions.
20. I feel unit leadership advances DEIA
and other efforts to improve culture.
Morale
21. My work morale is:
a. Very Low, Low, Somewhat Low,
Neutral, Somewhat High, Very High
22. The morale of my unit is:
a. Very Low, Low, Somewhat Low,
Neutral, Somewhat High, Very High
23. The morale of BHA is:
a. Very Low, Low, Somewhat Low,
Neutral, Somewhat High, Very High
24. I am comfortable (check all that
apply):
a. Using workplace flexible options if
available to you.
b. Signing off at a regular hour.
c. Taking time off from work.
d. Not responding to emails during off
hours, unless urgent.
25. What four factors impact your
morale the most (check all that
apply)?
a. USAID plans for returning to the
office
b. Prioritization of work
c. Amount of work
d. Issues around DEIA
e. Issues around Harassment, Sexual
Harassment, and Bullying
f. Management Issues (transparency,
accessibility, changes in)
g. Interpersonal relationships with my
colleagues
h. Issues around systems/processes
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i. Ability to fully express my ideas
and thoughts about work
j. Support and empowerment in
advancing my career
k. Personal Issues
l. Other (50 characters)
26. If you selected ‘‘Other’’ to the
previous question, please provide
your description here.
OMB Control Number for this notice.
All comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Curt
Alt, 202 690–4784, Podadmin@
usda.gov.
Final Comments
1. Where should leadership focus its
attention over the next year to
continue to build culture? (500
characters)
Title: Regional Agricultural
Promotion Program.
OMB Number: 0551–0049.
Expiration Date of Approval: August
31, 2025.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: Under the Regional
Agricultural Promotion Program
(RAPP), information will be gathered
from applicants to the program and from
existing program participants that have
been approved to conduct market
promotion activities that promote U.S.
agricultural commodities in foreign
markets, including activities that
address existing or potential non-tariff
barriers to trade. The information
collected will be used primarily by FAS
to manage, plan, evaluate, and account
for government resources. This revision
is necessary to update the burden
estimate to account for new applications
being received under RAPP.
Estimate of Burden: The public
reporting burden for each respondent
resulting from information collected
under the RAPP varies in direct relation
to the number and type of agreements
entered into by such respondents. The
estimated average reporting burden for
the RAPP is 16 hours per response.
Type of Respondents: Nonprofit U.S.
agricultural trade organizations,
nonprofit state regional trade groups,
U.S. agricultural cooperatives, and state
agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 70
per annum.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 55 per annum.
Estimated Total Annual Burden of
Respondents: 55,029 hours.
Copies of this information collection
can be obtained from Dacia Rogers, the
Agency Information Collection
Coordinator, at Dacia.Rogers@usda.gov.
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whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
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validity of the methodology and
assumption used; (c) ways to enhance
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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information Collection Review Request for OMB Approval: BHA
Workplace Culture Survey
AGENCY: U.S. Agency for International Development.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA)
proposes to survey all members of its workforce to assess and gauge its
processes for developing and improving a more cohesive BHA culture.
This survey is also sent to institutional support contractors (ISCs),
which are part of the USAID workforce but are members of the public for
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). USAID/BHA
invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the following new information collection as
it relates to ISCs, as required by the PRA. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using
the search function.
DATES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments (titled `BHA Workforce Culture Survey
Comments') by any of the following methods:
Email: Kathryn Oberholzer at [email protected].
Mail: Kathryn Oberholzer at Bureau for Humanitarian
Assistance, 555 12th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathryn Oberholzer, (571) 212-9899,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Type of Information Collection: BHA Workplace Culture Survey.
Type of Request: Notice for public comment.
Originating Office: USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs.
Respondents: BHA personnel, including ISCs that are not federal
employees for PRA purposes.
Respondent's Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 400.
Average Time per Response: 15 minutes for survey respondents.
Frequency of Response: Approximately once per year.
Total Estimated Burden: 100 hours.
Total Estimated Burden Cost: None.
We are soliciting public comments to permit USAID/BHA to include
ISCs in its workforce survey to assess and gauge its processes for
developing and improving a more cohesive BHA culture.
Danielle Mutone Smith,
Managing Director, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.
BHA Culture Survey Questions
**Privacy Act Statement**
Please see the Privacy Act Statement in its entirety in the ensuing
section.
Introduction
As a part of the transformation of the Office of Foreign Disaster
Assistance (OFDA) and Food For Peace (FFP) into BHA in 2020, we
enlisted the support of USAID Staff Care organizational consultants to
both assess the cultures* of FFP and OFDA, and then engage staff in the
design of a BHA culture that melds the best of both offices. To that
end, BHA conducted a cultural assessment survey in March/April 2020,
which has informed Staff Care's culture work with BHA offices and
senior management. This culminated in a July 2021 workshop where office
representatives integrated all the office-level work on culture into a
BHA-wide culture document.
In 2021 BHA conducted a second culture survey. This survey was
implemented and analyzed by the Training Resources Group, Inc. (TRG) to
ensure confidentiality of responses. TRG analyzed the data and shared
results from the survey with BHA leadership and staff in early 2022.
Subsequently, BHA Offices held meetings to focus on individual office
results and action planning discussions.
The 2021 survey provides baseline data for our 2023 survey. This
year's survey will allow us to gauge the process to date on developing
a BHA culture.
Your participation is critical, so please note this survey is
confidential. While we will be requesting demographic information so
that we can analyze survey responses in a variety of ways, this
information will not be attached to individuals who respond, and TRG
consultants will be the only ones with access to the raw data.
(*Culture for the purposes of this survey means BHA's values, norms
and behaviors that guide and inform BHA staff and how we work
together.)
(*Culture for the purposes of this survey means BHA's values, norms
and behaviors that guide and inform BHA staff and how we work
together.)
Unit defined as: The immediate BHA team/office/group that you work
closest with.
Bureau leadership defined as: BHA Front Office, Office directors
based in Washington, DC.
Privacy Act Statement
In accordance with E.O. 14035: Executive Order on Diversity,
Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce, we are
collecting information relating to the culture of BHA and to the morale
of all of our employees to help inform efforts to improve workplace
culture.
BHA intends to use the voluntarily-given basic demographic
information along with responses gauging morale and workplace culture
at an aggregate level to examine where pain points in BHA's approach to
work may be. With information about how employees of different genders,
sexual identities, hiring mechanisms, disability statuses, and racial
or ethnic groups feel about their unit and BHA's culture, office and
bureau leadership will be better informed about how to focus and
prioritize efforts related to culture change. Identifying how staff
feel about their workplace culture and what factors are affecting their
morale will allow
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leaders at all levels in the bureau to create a better culture and
improve conditions for groups where needed. The survey will be sent to
staff at their USAID email address, the survey will indicate that staff
will be asked for their consent to share demographic data, which they
may decline to provide at their discretion. Staff will be notified
about the purpose of the collection, what will be done with the
information provided, and how the information will be retained and
protected.
We will use this information to inform office and bureau-level
follow up actions. Additionally, leaders at different levels in the
bureau will be able to use the disaggregated data to inform their
office culture improvement action plans. We plan to conduct annual
cultural surveys to continue to track and invest in BHA culture change
over time. Information will not be shared with any other entity or
source, and will not be used for any other purpose beyond what is
specified here.
In order to isolate the data from anyone who would have the ability
to identify participants, our consultant partner, the Training
Resources Group, Inc. (TRG), will execute, house, and disaggregate the
data from this survey, protecting this information with the utmost
integrity in accordance with their corporate privacy policies. No PII
will be collected or shared. Two individuals in TRG will have access to
the raw data only through two-factor authentication. Further, raw data
will be deleted after one year after which a new culture survey will be
disseminated to BHA staff.
Proposed Questions
Demographics
1. For which part of BHA do you work?
a. Office of Field and Response Operations (FARO)
b. Office of Humanitarian Business and Management Operations (HBMO)
c. Office of Technical and Program Quality (TPQ)
d. Office of Global Policy, Partnerships, Programs, and
Communications (G3PC)
e. Office of Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean (ALAC)
f. Office of Africa (OA)
g. Office of Middle East, North Africa, and Europe (MENAE)
h. Regional/country based
i. Prefer Not to Respond
2. What is your hiring mechanism?
a. U.S. Personal Services Contracts (USPSC)
b. USPSC-Support Relief Group (USPSC-SRG)
c. Third Country National Personal Services Contract (TCNPSC)
d. Local Personal Services Contractor (Local PSC)
e. Foreign Service National (FSN)
f. Political Appointee
g. Civil Service (CS)
h. Foreign Service (FS)
i. Foreign Service Limited (FSL)
j. Civil Service Excepted (CSE)
k. Participating Agency Service Agreement (PASA)
l. Participating Agency Service Agreement Detailer (PASA Detailer)
m. Institutional Contractor
n. Fellow
o. Intern
p. Other
q. Prefer Not to Respond
3. How long have you been with BHA (including OFDA/FFP time)?
a. 0-1 year
b. 1-3 years
c. 4-7 years
d. 8-15 years
e. 15+ years
4. With which racial and ethnic group(s) do you identify? Please mark
all that apply.
a. Native American or Alaska Native
b. East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian
c. North African/Middle Eastern
d. African
e. Black or African American
f. Hispanix or Latinx
g. White
h. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
i. Other
j. Prefer Not to Respond
5. Do you identify as a gender or sexual minority?
a. Yes, I identify as a gender or sexual minority.
b. No, I do not identify as a gender or sexual minority.
c. Prefer Not to Respond
6. How do you describe your disability/ability status? Please mark all
that apply.
a. Yes, I have a disability for which I have sought a reasonable
accommodation.
b. Yes, I have a disability for which I have NOT sought a
reasonable accommodation.
c. No, I do not have a disability.
d. I prefer not to respond.
7. Do you lead, manage or supervise other members of the BHA workforce?
a. Yes
b. No
Workplace Culture (Values/Norms/Behaviors)
8. I feel my workplace values are aligned with BHA values?
a. Totally Disagree, Somewhat Disagree, Neutral, Somewhat Agree,
Totally Agree, No opinion (same scale for 10-20)
9. I feel that my teammates trust me.
10. I trust my teammates.
11. I feel valued by those in my unit.
12. I value my unit members.
13. (OPTIONAL) My US/Field counterpart respects my input and opinions.
a. Optional, if applicable
14. I feel I can disclose a suspected misconduct, violation of any law,
rule or regulation without fear of reprisal.
15. What do you most value about BHA culture? (500 characters)
Leadership
16. Unit leadership listens to and respects me/my work.
17. I feel that a workforce of all cultures and backgrounds are made to
feel included and valued in BHA.
18. Bureau leadership and/or regional office leads create opportunities
for all voices and perspectives to be heard and valued in an
environment of trust.
19. I feel Bureau and unit leadership clearly communicate their
decisions.
20. I feel unit leadership advances DEIA and other efforts to improve
culture.
Morale
21. My work morale is:
a. Very Low, Low, Somewhat Low, Neutral, Somewhat High, Very High
22. The morale of my unit is:
a. Very Low, Low, Somewhat Low, Neutral, Somewhat High, Very High
23. The morale of BHA is:
a. Very Low, Low, Somewhat Low, Neutral, Somewhat High, Very High
24. I am comfortable (check all that apply):
a. Using workplace flexible options if available to you.
b. Signing off at a regular hour.
c. Taking time off from work.
d. Not responding to emails during off hours, unless urgent.
25. What four factors impact your morale the most (check all that
apply)?
a. USAID plans for returning to the office
b. Prioritization of work
c. Amount of work
d. Issues around DEIA
e. Issues around Harassment, Sexual Harassment, and Bullying
f. Management Issues (transparency, accessibility, changes in)
g. Interpersonal relationships with my colleagues
h. Issues around systems/processes
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i. Ability to fully express my ideas and thoughts about work
j. Support and empowerment in advancing my career
k. Personal Issues
l. Other (50 characters)
26. If you selected ``Other'' to the previous question, please provide
your description here.
Final Comments
1. Where should leadership focus its attention over the next year to
continue to build culture? (500 characters)
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