Every Thursday, MFAN will post a list of upcoming events for the following week. For more information about each event and to RSVP, click on the links below. If your organization is hosting an event next week and you don’t see yourself on the list, please email info@modernizeaid.net. See below for a list of MFAN Partner … Continue reading Mark Your Calendars – Week of April 16, 2012
Every Thursday, MFAN will post a list of upcoming events for the following week. For more information about each event and to RSVP, click on the links below. If your organization is hosting an event next week and you don’t see yourself on the list, please email info@modernizeaid.net.
We are pleased that four key agencies responded to our call: we have received information from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), and the Peace Corps. Our review of this information (which can be viewed on our new microsite) gives us reason to believe that the new policy has meaningfully enhanced interagency dialogue and coordination and set us on a path toward greater transparency and accountability for U.S. taxpayers and recipient countries.
The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) – a coalition of foreign policy experts, international development practitioners, and NGOs dedicated to effective foreign assistance programs – is seeking a motivated intern for the summer. MFAN’s learning internships offer an opportunity to explore the nuances of foreign aid reform and U.S. government advocacy. Internships are unpaid but … Continue reading Summer 2012 Interns — Apply Now!
MFAN is co-hosting an event with the Consensus for Development Reform on Wednesday, March 28 to discuss the Bush Administration’s legacy on global development. Click here to learn more and RSVP!
The policy’s overarching goals are to shrink the gaping disparities between women and men, reduce violence against women and girls, and increase their capacity of women and girls make their own life decisions and pursue their own potential.
The Consensus for Development Reform and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network invite you to a special panel discussion. The Bush Administration’s Legacy on Global Development: Lessons for the Next Decade and Beyond ** Wednesday, March 28th The Naval Heritage Center – 701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 11:00 am – 12:30 pm With opening remarks by: Senator … Continue reading EVENT: Bush Administration’s Legacy on Development
Every Thursday, MFAN will post a list of upcoming events for the following week. For more information about each event and to RSVP, click on the links below. If your organization is hosting an event next week and you don’t see yourself on the list, please email info@modernizeaid.net.
This blog post is part of a continuing series exploring how U.S. agencies are promoting economic growth in their development work. The Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, released in September 2010, set broad-based economic growth as a pillar of sustainable, effective development policy. In the first post, we take a look at USAID’s Development … Continue reading USAID’s Development Credit Authority “Puts Local Wealth to Work”
Last week, USAID Administrator Raj Shah released his second annual letter describing the ways in which the agency has elevated development over the past year, with a nod to USAID’s 50th anniversary. The letter focuses on three areas that have framed the agency’s work including seizing pivotal opportunities, embracing challenging roles, and building capacity, not independence.
