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.
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.
The urgency demanded by humanitarian disasters often overwhelms a long-term vision, but aid effectiveness and foresight remain key considerations in the provision of aid. DARA, an international organization dedicated to improving aid quality in crisis situations, found in a recent report that the humanitarian sector has made limited progress in implementing reforms and good donor … Continue reading DARA Examines Top Donors’ Humanitarian Response
Yesterday, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah delivered a major speech before the Council on Foreign Relations on how the administration is elevating development and transforming foreign assistance. Shah framed the speech by saying the decision by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to elevate development was not a “show of gratitude…It was a challenge.” To accept the challenge, and embrace the new world order, Shah said USAID changed its approach in three key ways: focusing on delivering value for money by making critical tradeoffs and shutting down missions and programs; prioritizing innovation through the Grand Challenges for Development; and instituting a new model for partnership that relies more heavily on “local entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and partner country governments.”
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 March 12, 2012
