The International Monetary Fund has made creation of the Kenya Anticorruption Authority one of several conditions that the country must meet before it receives continued aid.
Despite a continued aid effort to Afghanistan, money is largely targeted at the provinces that are still in the grips of the Taliban.
And bank governance has emerged as a critical issue, with the country's creditors, who arrived in Athens this week to carry out their latest audit, insisting that continued aid is conditional on banks' demonstrating that their conduct is above reproach.
Students would be required to show progress toward a degree before receiving continued aid, and schools would be rewarded for developing innovative programs to serve more students at lower costs.
Given the vulnerability of Afghan women and girls, Ms. Landrieu said, support for continued aid from female senators on both sides of the aisle can be "a bulwark against the natural tendency to retrench".
Given the vulnerability of Afghan women and girls, support for continued aid from women senators on both sides of the aisle can be "a bulwark against the natural tendency to retrench," she said.
To win pledges of continued aid at an international donors conference in July, President Karzai promised to crack down on corruption and make political reforms, but he has done little.
Throughout his speech, when it came to the United States he expressed a desire to be free of foreigners telling the government what to do, but also a wish for continued aid.
But proponents of continued aid have gained support from an alliance of Democrats and Republicans eager to protect Afghan women and girls from a Taliban resurgence and to maintain the fragile stability gained by the United States' dozen years in Afghanistan.
But with most American and NATO troops set to leave by the end of 2014, advocates of continued aid are warning against too precipitous a cutoff of financing from the United States and its allies.
For example, a Education Department official said, students at a particular school sent in dozens of hand-written letters asking for continued aid to for-profit colleges, but never mentioning the regulations.
