Professional Services Council President Stan Soloway sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on December 6th in response to the QDDR draft summary. PSC’s letter highlighted the important role of implementing partners and highlighted the “expertise and innovation available in the private sector.”
“A good leader in this field,” said Unger, “understands the complexity of development politics, policies and operations, and applies that knowledge and experience to navigate the inherent challenges, influence key stakeholders, and deliver results.”
As a hub of diverse and active international development players, the state of Washington is creating a model for collaboration in the global development sector, providing innovative strategies and cross-sector, cross-issue partnerships to build a better world. On November 15th and 16th, 2010, 430 members of the global development sector convened on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington for Bridges to Breakthroughs: How partnerships and innovation are changing the world, a two-day conference hosted by Global Washington.
The Brookings Institution and Publish What You Fund today hosted a discussion focused on what the U.S. government is doing to pursue greater transparency and its role in shaping international aid transparency standards.
In a new piece in The Washington Times, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) calls for Congress and the Administration to complete and institutionalize their work to make foreign aid programs “more effective, more efficient and more accountable.”
Recently, USAID formally announced USAID Forward, a bundle of reforms to make USAID more effective.
Click here to find out about a few of the changes happening at USAID.
On December 7 the Center for Global Development held a discussion on the upcoming Millennium Challenge Corporation country selection process for FY11. CGD director of policy outreach Sarah Jane Staats, head of the Center’s Millennium Challenge Account Monitor, presented her forecast for which countries will likely be selected for compact or threshold funding during the coming fiscal year. Click here to find out which countries make the list.
In a new policy brief called “Consultation & Participation for Local Ownership: What? Why? How?,” MFAN Partner Save the Children examines how to make the Obama Administration’s emphasis on “country ownership” a successful model for stakeholder participation in development programs.
“Without an innovative “civil-military” political strategy and careful consultation with both authorizing and appropriations committees, a Republican-dominated House is likely to place the International Affairs budget on the chopping block, even though it only accounts for a sliver of our federal budget. Our civilian and military leadership must speak in unison to underscore how vital rebuilding our civilian institutions is to our national security.”
In a new report called “U.S. Foreign Aid Reform Meets the New Congress,” MFAN Principal and Executive Director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative at the Center for American Progress John Norris explores how foreign assistance reform can succeed in the new-look 112th Congress.
