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DRL's Portfolio Is Balanced and Has Potential for Even More Value

• This assessment showed good alignment between the State Department's strategy and the cumulative effect of the 18 funded projects.
• The portfolio was well balanced with a healthy mix of objectives and approaches. Risk seemed appropriate and prudent, with a suitable degree of failure tolerance spread across the portfolio and counterbalanced by a significant investment in lower-risk projects.
• The portfolio program's total effect is greatly enhanced by the interaction and collaboration between implementers.
• The investment in developing Internet freedom capacity and capabilities would likely have residual value beyond the portfolio's funded lifespan, with positive, but indirect, connections to civic freedom. Internet freedom initiatives also have the potential to be a high-leverage national security tool for democratic open societies, with cost-imposing characteristics against authoritarian regimes.