Monthly Archives: June 2010
Yesterday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer confirmed what USGLC has been speculating for some time – there will be no budget resolution this year. Instead, the House will work to pass (later this week or next week) a separate “deeming resolution,” likely added to the FY10 supplemental, which would establish an overall discretionary spending cap [...]
As the G8/G20 Summit in Ontario, Canada, approaches, a new report released by the Jubilee USA Network assigns the Group of 20 nations a grade of ‘D’ in keeping its commitments to poor countries. The G20, which represents 85% of the global economy, has fallen short of its pledges for funding international development, according to [...]
As Congress begins deliberations on FY11 appropriations, a full-page message in today’s Politico by USGLC highlights the drumbeat of support for a strong International Affairs Budget from across the political and civilian-military spectrum. Entitled “What in the world do these important voice agree on?” the ad highlights all the “voices” – including all living former [...]
There are not many issues before Congress that enjoy bipartisan support from across the ideological spectrum. Yet a message in Politico demonstrates that the International Affairs Budget is just one such issue. Over the course of the last six months, there’s been a steady and consistent drumbeat of support for a strong International Affairs Budget [...]
This past Friday at the National Press Club, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah laid out his hopes for the transformation of USAID into a stronger, more entrepreneurial and cooperative agency, one better able to meet the modern challenges that require the United States to play a bigger role in international development. Emphasizing that “America’s greatest security [...]
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah called for “a more efficient, results-oriented agency” on Friday at the National Press Club. He began by noting the success the U.S. has had in responding to February’s devastating earthquake in Haiti. “Together with our partner, the World Food Program, we fed more than 3.5 million people — the largest feeding [...]
Last week at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s annual Women Deliver Conference, Melinda Gates announced new funding for maternal and child health improvement in the developing world and urged the United States and other governments to join her in doing so. In her speech, she declared that over the next 5 years the Foundation [...]
The USGLC congratulates David Beckmann from Bread for the World as one of this year’s World Food Prize laureates. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the announcement today in Washington. The Prize, noted as “the foremost international award recognizing…the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of [...]
The current issue of Foreign Affairs features an enlightening evaluation of counterinsurgency strategy by experts Eli Berman, Joseph Felter, and Jacob Shapiro that highlights the necessity of civilian-led governance programs to combating terrorism long term. In “Constructive COIN: How Development Can Fight Radicals,” the three explored the various means of fighting the threat of insurgents [...]
With Secretary of Defense Gates warning lawmakers on the Hill yesterday that the Pentagon “will have to begin planning to curtail defense operations” if the FY 2010 war and disaster assistance supplemental bill is not approved by the July 4th recess, key budget and appropriations decisions still remain in limbo. The Senate passed the $59 [...]
