A Review of USAID’s Major New York Events from Last Week:

By: Staff Person
September 28, 2010

    The following are highlights from USAID’s participation in events in New York last week.  USAID had a strong presence in the city, particularly USAID Administrator, Rajiv Shah. On the morning of September 21st, Raj Shah, Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, and Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS … Continue reading A Review of USAID’s Major New York Events from Last Week:

MFAN Partner: “What Does the PPD Mean for USAID?”

By: Staff Person
September 28, 2010

Connie Veillette, new director of the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Initiative at the Center for Global Development (CGD), analyzes the commitment to rebuild USAID into “the world’s premier development agency” in light of the new Global Development Policy for CGD’s blog.  She argues that any government agency is only as strong as three conditions, identified … Continue reading MFAN Partner: “What Does the PPD Mean for USAID?”

“What Obama Got Right about Development”

By: Staff Person
September 28, 2010

The message “lets do more” is always popular because it also means “business as usual” for what is already going on. “Let’s do better at what we are doing”–that is a tough internal sell, but one that is useful–including I believe to people who are actually on the ground, doing the work.

MCC Post: “Witnessing a Historic Moment”

By: Staff Person
September 27, 2010

Sheila Herrling, vice president for policy and evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), posted a blog celebrating President Obama’s speech last week in which he unveiled the first U.S. Global Development Policy.  Herrling wrote that with the new Global Development Policy, a major reform effort kicks in, and the MCC is a great working … Continue reading MCC Post: “Witnessing a Historic Moment”

“Do good things and let people know you’re doing them.”

By: Staff Person
September 27, 2010

Mark Green, Ambassador and Congressman (ret.) wraps up his blog series “Why Conservatives Should Care About Foreign Assistance Reform” with Reason # 10: Since fighting the threat of terrorism is one of this generation’s greatest challenges, we need to sharpen those tools that can help prevent violent extremism from spreading and growing.

Best of @ModernizeAid Tweets

By: Staff Person
September 27, 2010

Last week, the Twitterverse witnessed a spike in global development topics thanks to the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit and the Clinton Global Initiative; see #MDGs, #USMDG2010, and #CGI for more.  MFAN live tweeted important speeches—particularly President Obama’s speech outlining a new U.S. Global Development Policy—and worked to keep the conversation going, while highlighting reform-related … Continue reading Best of @ModernizeAid Tweets

Women First: The GHI’s Women- and Girl-Centered Approach

By: Staff Person
September 27, 2010

Two weeks ago MFAN launched a blog series about the reform aspects of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) with a guest post by the Global Health Council. Click here to read a post by The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) about the GHI’s Women- and Girl- Centered Approach.

A Week in Review: America’s First-ever Global Development Policy

By: Staff Person
September 24, 2010

This was an incredible week for MFAN, the broader development community, and those struggling for a better life worldwide.  With the world turned toward Turtle Bay for the Millennium Development Goals Summit and the UN General Assembly, as well as thought leaders from all over just across town at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), development … Continue reading A Week in Review: America’s First-ever Global Development Policy

SFRC Chairman Kerry Ready to Enact Reforms in New Development Policy

By: Staff Person
September 24, 2010

Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry yesterday released a press release expressing his enthusiasm for President Obama’s new development policy, calling it “a comprehensive development policy based on measurable outcomes, country ownership, sustainable economic growth and multilateralism – a policy that will build capacity in the developing world, not dependence.”