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On October 1, 2019 the new U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will open its doors. The DFC is a modernized version of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) that consolidates the agency with USAID’s Development Credit Authority, and provides new financing tools to catalyze private investment in developing economies. The new tools granted to … Continue reading What is equity scoring and why is it important for financing development?

Each year, MFAN speaks with the Congressional Hunger Center‘s Leland International Hunger Fellows about the pillars of aid effectiveness, and how accountability and country ownership can be incorporated into their two-year program of field and policy work. The Congressional Hunger Center interviewed this year’s cohort, asking them how they have seen accountability and country ownership playing a role … Continue reading A Rising Generation of Aid Effectiveness Practitioners

This spring, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) released its latest Policy Framework. The document pulls from goals outlined in the United States’ National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Department of State and USAID Joint Strategic Plan (JSP), and weaves these goals into U.S. development policy. Together, the NSS, JSP, and Policy Framework … Continue reading How does USAID’s recent Policy Framework perform on aid effectiveness?

Over the last almost ten years, the US has made a series of commitments to improve the publication of its aid data.  Behind this effort is the concept that increases in transparency and availability of US data will lead to better planning, accountability, and effectiveness of US aid efforts.  One of the latest steps in … Continue reading Three years after FATAA: What’s the current state of U.S. foreign assistance data?

To the MFAN Community, Throughout my career I have worked with a number of individuals who I would call leaders in the true sense of the word. To lead is to “guide on a way, especially by going in advance.” The international affairs community is fortunate to be led by some impressive individuals willing to … Continue reading A Note on Aid Reform: Leadership

Development initiatives must cut across all groups of society for full impact. According to some estimates, women represent 70 percent of the world’s poor. What can a focus on women’s economic empowerment do for the world? Experts say the female economy represents an emerging market more than twice the size of India and China combined. … Continue reading 5 ways the new U.S. Development Finance Corporation can embrace women’s economic empowerment