Monthly Archives: May 2010
In his first trip to Africa as USAID Administrator, Rajiv Shah is visiting Kenya and Sudan this week, where he has been meeting with the World Food Program, the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur, the U.N. Population Fund and other UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs. He also discussed a new sustainable agriculture project called [...]
The U.S. Agency for International Development has announced plans to launch a website for the government’s new global hunger and food security initiative, “Feed the Future.” The launch this week will be accompanied by keynote remarks from USAID Administrator, Dr. Rajiv Shah, at a global agriculture and food security symposium at the Chicago Council on [...]
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A bipartisan group of Senators, led by John Kerry (D-MA), Richard Lugar (R-IN), Kit Bond (R-MO), Richard Durbin (D-IL), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), has begun circulating a letter to Senate colleagues urging Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and Ranking Member Thad Cochran (R-MS) to fully fund the President’s International Affairs Budget request in the [...]
1. Bipartisan Group of Senators Sponsors Letter to Senate Appropriators
2. Senate Appropriators Mark Up FY 2010 War Supplemental
3. Changes to House State-Foreign Ops Subcommittee Roster
4. USGLC To Sponsor “World Trade Week” Briefing on Capitol Hill
Yesterday the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously passed a $58.8 billion FY 10 supplemental spending bill for disaster assistance, the war, and Haiti reconstruction. The measure includes $6.2 billion for State and Foreign Operations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Haiti, roughly in line with the President’s total request for those programs. We’ll be providing a detailed [...]
Last week, the USGLC held a town hall discussion with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah. Here are some video clips from the event of what we thought were the most important takeaways.
Fresh off his town hall presentation last week on his approach to “high-impact development,” USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah is packing for Africa . The six-day trip will include stops in Kenya and Sudan, where he will focus on progress of the Administration’s Global Health Initiative and Food Security Initiative. In Juba, Sudan, he will launch a new [...]
With the legislative clock ticking and Defense Secretary Gates warning Congress that it needs to provide supplemental war funds soon for Afghanistan and Iraq, Congress is poised to act on the Administration’s FY 10 supplemental requests. Sources on the Hill indicate that the Senate Appropriations Committee is likely Thursday afternoon to markup a measure that [...]
With the legislative clock ticking and Defense Secretary Gates warning Congress that it needs to provide supplemental war funds soon for Afghanistan and Iraq, Congress is poised to act on the Administration’s FY 10 supplemental requests. Sources on the Hill indicate that the Senate Appropriations Committee is likely Thursday afternoon to markup a measure that [...]
