Rajiv Shah on the Future of USAID
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah was looking ahead with a sense of opportunity and urgency yesterday as he discussed creating a new vision for foreign assistance over the next fifty years at the InterAction Forum 2010. “I believe the next 12 to 18 months is a unique moment in time. I don’t think the window will last much longer than that,” Shah, referring to current efforts to reform and modernize foreign assistance in the Administration and Congress. Underscoring Congressional support for reform, House Foreign Affairs Committee Member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) agreed that Congress has an important role to play in moving development forward, saying, “We have to have one voice when it comes to international development issues and that one voice needs to be AID.”
