In today’s London Telegraph, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia takes on critics of international development and diplomacy programs. Headlined “Foreign Aid Is Not a Waste of Money,” she writes “I have seen, at first–hand, how aid, effectively targeted and delivered, reduces poverty.” President Sirleaf calls on wealthy nations to confront the linked challenges of [...]
This month two of the more than 400 USGLC member organizations set an important milestone. Procter & Gamble and World Vision worked together to provide their 3 billionth liter of clean drinking water to the developing world. Through this partnership, World Vision uses their global reach to help ensure more people around the world have [...]
Investments in research and innovation will be essential to meeting the global health challenges of the next decade. In the first speech by a sitting USAID Administrator before the National Institutes of Health(NIH) Dr. Rajiv Shah outlined transformational global health goals to be achieved by 2016. Administrator Shah’s remarks reflected an ambitious program which included [...]
“More effective foreign assistance can pay real dividends” say three high-ranking Republicans who understand the International Affairs Budget from their own experience. Former House Foreign Affairs Chairman Jim Kolbe, former Congressman and Ambassador to Tanzania Mark Green, and former head of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Rob Mosbacher wrote in this morning’s Daily Caller that, [...]
Today all of Washington awaits the President’s State of the Union speech, which is expected to focus largely on jobs and the domestic economy. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will give the Republican response to the President’s message, as well as lead an effort in the House today to pass a resolution calling [...]
Yesterday, USAID Administrator Raj Shah highlighted reforms underway at USAID aimed at changing the way the U.S. does development. “The Future of American prosperity resides on the prosperity in the developing world,” Shah stated, outlining specific ways USAID is changing to be more effective and transparent. Shah called for a new “development enterprise” that approaches [...]
This afternoon USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah will give a major address on the Administration’s directions and priorities in development, including the new Feed the Future initiative. The event is at 2 p.m., and you can watch it here. Today we also mourn the loss of a true champion of the International Affairs Budget, Sargent Shriver. [...]
Congress is officially back in session today with a busy agenda for the week. Fresh from their retreat at the end of last week, House Republicans will begin with a vote to repeal the health care overhaul legislation. After this debate, priority will return to cutting spending as Congress must take up the FY 2011 [...]
Daniel Yohannes, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), laid out a strong business case for development last week declaring, “I have a client – the U.S. taxpayer. I have a partner – the countries receiving MCC assistance and the citizens they represent. And, I have a goal – to get the best return on [...]
