Action Alert: MFAN Partners’ Budget Drives

By: Staff Person
April 14, 2010

As Congress moves on the appropriations process, it is critical that the President’s FY 2011 International Affairs Budget Request is fully funded.  MFAN Partner the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition created a Budget Update Center with a wealth of resources, including fact sheets, graphics, and statements on the budget process and why the International Affairs Budget plays … Continue reading Action Alert: MFAN Partners’ Budget Drives

QDDR Series Extra: MFAN Member White on Development as a Discipline

By: Staff Person
April 13, 2010

The Presidential Study Directive on Global Development (PSD) and the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) represent an unprecedented confluence of factors which could fundamentally alter U.S. engagement with the world. But will the PSD and the QDDR coalesce around a unified outcomes-oriented strategy that enables the discipline of development in the U.S. political system?

QDDR Series Extra: MFAN Member Christiansen on Transparency

By: Staff Person
April 12, 2010

The QDDR is a major opportunity for the U.S. Government to address the availability of comprehensive, timely, and comparable aid information and increase aid transparency for both U.S. citizens and the people benefiting from U.S. foreign assistance.

Brookings, CSIS Issue New Report on Foreign Assistance Reform

By: Staff Person
April 8, 2010

In a new report by co-authors Noam Unger (Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution and MFAN Principal), Margaret Taylor (Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project), and Frederick Barton (former co-director of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project), policymakers are presented with key recommendations to inform a coherent and effective national approach to both stabilization and broader development.

Sec. Clinton’s Remarks on World Health Day

By: Staff Person
April 7, 2010

The United States and our international partners are committed to improving health and strengthening health systems around the world. We understand that addressing global health challenges is not just a humanitarian imperative — it will also bolster global security, foster political stability and promote economic growth and development.

QDDR Blog Series Wrap-up

By: Staff Person
April 5, 2010

With the release of initial findings from the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) on the horizon, MFAN put forward a variety of perspectives from across the coalition on how the QDDR can complement legislation and promote transparency, civil society engagement, gender, and ownership to make U.S. foreign assistance more effective and accountable.

Annual Spring Peacebuilding Policy Days and Conference

By: Staff Person
April 5, 2010

This year, as key Members of Congress begin the arduous task of re-writing the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act, we want to have an impact and your engagement is needed. Join the Alliance for Peacebuilding and 3D Security Initiative for their upcoming policy days.

MFAN Releases Paper on Haiti Reconstruction

By: Staff Person
March 30, 2010

On the eve of the International Donors’ Conference Toward a New Future in Haiti – co-hosted by the U.S. and the UN – in New York City, MFAN has released a paper outlining principles of foreign assistance reform that will lead to effective reconstruction and long-term development for Haiti.

QDDR Blog Series: MFAN Principal Michael Klosson & Kathleen Campbell on Haiti

By: Staff Person
March 30, 2010

The President understood that the problem, at its heart, was a humanitarian and development issue, requiring a humanitarian and development lead and solution – with unflagging support from our nation’s highest level diplomats, soldiers, trade negotiators, and treasury officials.

QDDR Blog Series: MFAN Principal Liz Schrayer & John Glenn on Smart Resources

By: Staff Person
March 29, 2010

Since then, both the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) and Presidential Study Directive on Global Development (PSD-7) have set out to tackle many of these points: elevating and streamlining U.S. foreign assistance structures, integrating civilian and military instruments to deal with weak and fragile states, and considering the appropriate balance of authorities and resources between the State and Defense Departments.