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Mark Your Calendars — Week of August 27
By: Staff Person
August 23, 2012
August 23, 2012
MFAN Co-Chair Featured in NY Times “Room for Debate”
By: Staff Person
August 16, 2012
August 16, 2012
As part of the MFAN network, we want you to leave a comment on Beckmann’s page here in support of his argument and the notion that cutting foreign aid is not the solution to our fiscal problems. Share this link on Facebook and Twitter with your networks to amplify your support.
I fight corruption, and I support procurement reform.
By: Staff Person
August 9, 2012
August 9, 2012
I have seen that development dollars, when directed at both the civil society groups and local governments, add more value and reduce the risk of waste and abuse. More support to local civil society actors means more support for campaigns against corruption.
President Obama’s Economic Strategy for Africa: Aid-Plus but Will It Last?
By: Staff Person
August 7, 2012
August 7, 2012
In his remarks, Froman focused on economic growth, trade and investment (one of four pillars in the administration’s new strategy towards Africa and the result of a presidential policy directive that presumably replaces National Security Presidential Directive 50 signed in 2006 by President Bush). Froman spoke of the difference in the US government’s approach to the region from when he traveled to Africa as a Treasury official nearly fifteen years ago. “If there is one way to summarize the change, it is that the focus has shifted from how much aid will be provided to how best to create the enabling environment for the trade and investment necessary to drive broad-based economic growth—the only true path toward development,” he argued.
Fall 2012 Interns — Apply Now!
By: Staff Person
August 6, 2012
August 6, 2012
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 fall.
Women Thrive’s IPR Fact Sheet
By: Staff Person
July 30, 2012
July 30, 2012
Back in May, our partner Women Thrive Worldwide hosted a gender roundtable on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) implementation and procurement reform (IPR) agenda. What came out of that meeting is a smart one-pager—or fact sheet—that explains why IPR is central to building capacity and ensuring development solutions are country-led.
Mark Your Calendars — Week of July 30
By: Staff Person
July 27, 2012
July 27, 2012
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Greater Business-Government Alignment is a Win-Win for Global Development
By: Staff Person
July 25, 2012
July 25, 2012
The good news is that much of this work is underway. USAID is deploying its first group of Field Investment Officers this year to help drive increased engagement with the private sector in key missions, including several in Africa. And several “next generation” development opportunities – such as the MCC’s second compact with Ghana, which is focused on increasing investment in the power sector, the administration’s Partnership for Growth initiative, which seeks to provide a more coordinated, government-wide approach to addressing growth and investment constraints in four countries, and Feed the Future, with its newly identified priority value chains in Africa – provide the occasion to apply new approaches that acknowledge the potential for governments and businesses to generate the ingredients of sustainable growth together that neither are likely to accomplish alone.
Moving local organizations into the driver’s seat
By: Staff Person
July 19, 2012
July 19, 2012
As a result of USAID’s policy called Implementation and Procurement Reform, AGEXPORT is about to move into the driver’s seat. In a new Feed the Future project called “Rural Value Chains,” USAID required that a local Guatemalan organization be the prime funding recipient. AGEXPORT has asked Save the Children to play a supportive role by providing key technical support and institutional capacity.
Mark Your Calendars — Week of July 23, 2012
By: Staff Person
July 19, 2012
July 19, 2012
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