MFAN Statement: More than 200 Endorsers Agree that Aid Reform is Within Reach

By: Staff Person
August 5, 2010

August 5, 2010 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann and George Ingram: Forty days after President Obama pledged to issue a new development policy “in the near future” – and with no word yet on when it will be released – MFAN, … Continue reading MFAN Statement: More than 200 Endorsers Agree that Aid Reform is Within Reach

CQ Article Quotes MFAN Co-Chairs, Highlights Hill Aid Reform Leadership

By: Staff Person
July 19, 2010

Congress is driving the reassessment of development policy already under way with a series of legislative initiatives from Berman and the two leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Chairman John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and top Republican Richard G. Lugar of Indiana. But before progressing further, these lawmakers and development officials are waiting for the White House to deliver its vision for development…

20 Days and Counting

By: Staff Person
July 16, 2010

“At a policy level, the administration should be commended for its approach to development…Progress on actual nuts and bolts of turning policy into action has been less forthcoming. It is time to act on the broad recognition that multiple agencies carrying out similar or inconsistent programs is not good practice; that assistance programs need greater transparency and accountability; and that the legislative foundation for our foreign assistance system, a 500-page Cold War-era statute, lacks clear goals and objectives and is bursting at the seams with outdated, overlapping, and duplicative and conflicting provisions.”

Washington Post Columnist: President Has Hard Choices to Make on Development

By: Staff Person
July 9, 2010

“The Pentagon says it wants out of the development business because that’s not what it does. So the question, which apparently the White House will resolve, is whether development is going to be a distinct, though coordinated, function. That is, who’s going to be in charge of development out in the field.”

MFAN Partners Respond to Obama’s G8 Statement on Development

By: Staff Person
June 29, 2010

In a new post on the Center for Global Development’s Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Blog, MFAN member Sarah Jane Staats reviews Obama’s recently released announcement on the G8, “A New Approach to Advancing Development.” Staats applauds the statement for putting a “little more meat on the bones” of U.S. global development strategy, but notes that the real challenge … Continue reading MFAN Partners Respond to Obama’s G8 Statement on Development

Stimson Center’s Adams on Encroachment of Defense

By: Staff Person
June 24, 2010

General Stanley McChrystal’s candid disrespect for civilian leadership is being treated as an issue of bad judgment and personality. But this episode reveals a much deeper dilemma for American statecraft, one that has long roots but has reached near crisis proportions over the past ten years: the gradual erosion of civilian leadership and the militarization of our foreign and security policy.

MFAN Statement: MFAN Congratulates Bread for the World and Rev. David Beckmann on 2010 World Food Prize

By: Staff Person
June 16, 2010

June 16, 2010 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chair George Ingram: On behalf of my fellow MFAN Principals and the entire network, I offer my most sincere congratulations to our friend and colleague Rev. David Beckmann for winning the 2010 World Food Prize.  Throughout … Continue reading MFAN Statement: MFAN Congratulates Bread for the World and Rev. David Beckmann on 2010 World Food Prize

MFAN Statement: MFAN Applauds the National Security Strategy, Calls for More Action on the U.S. Approach to Development

By: Staff Person
June 1, 2010

May 27, 2010 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann and George Ingram: We applaud the emphasis on global poverty reduction and development in President Obama’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), which states, “Development is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative.”  We are … Continue reading MFAN Statement: MFAN Applauds the National Security Strategy, Calls for More Action on the U.S. Approach to Development