Since almost the moment that a devastating earthquake struck Haiti nearly three weeks ago, high-level world leaders, development experts (including MFAN Principals), and others have published pieces with opinions on what went wrong with development in Haiti and what we can do to make things right.
As the effort to provide aid to Haiti continues, questions have emerged about whether the massive humanitarian response is being handled properly from a organizational perspective.
This weekly posting includes key news stories and opinion pieces related to foreign assistance reform and the larger development community.
New USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah has been named the Obama Administration’s point man on disaster recovery efforts following the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
As part of our “Best of 2009” series, below are of some of the greatest media hits from MFAN and its partners.
This weekly posting includes key news stories and opinion pieces related to foreign assistance reform and the larger development community.
Politico features MFAN Principal and Policy Director of the Foreign Assistance Reform project at Brookings Institution Noam Unger, as evaluates the Obama Administration’s progress on foreign assistance reform.
At yesterday’s speech hosted by the Center for Global Development, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton articulated a positive and transformative vision for the future of U.S. efforts to alleviate poverty, fight disease, create economic opportunity, and promote human rights in developing countries. We strongly support the core of the Secretary’s vision: that development “is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative – as central to advancing American interests and solving global problems as diplomacy or defense.”
As a part of its “Morning Edition”, NPR did a story on the future of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in light of Secretary Clinton’s speech on development given yesterday.
As 2010 begins, we are pleased to report that the community’s hard work over the last year has created unprecedented momentum towards our shared goals of elevating development as an enduring pillar of U.S. foreign policy and making U.S. foreign assistance more effective and accountable.
