SFRC Chairman Kerry Ready to Enact Reforms in New Development Policy

By: Staff Person
September 24, 2010

Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry yesterday released a press release expressing his enthusiasm for President Obama’s new development policy, calling it “a comprehensive development policy based on measurable outcomes, country ownership, sustainable economic growth and multilateralism – a policy that will build capacity in the developing world, not dependence.”

MFAN in the News: President Obama’s MDG Speech

By: Staff Person
September 23, 2010

In what MFAN and the development community have been working toward, yesterday President Obama announced the new visionary U.S. Global Development Policy – the first of its kind by an Administration.  As MFAN’s Co-Chairs David Beckmann and George Ingram noted in their statement yesterday, “With his speech laying out a new U.S. approach to development … Continue reading MFAN in the News: President Obama’s MDG Speech

MFAN Statement: Visionary New Development Policy Lays the Foundation for More Effective Foreign Aid

By: Staff Person
September 22, 2010

September 22, 2010 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann and George Ingram: The foreign assistance reform movement is celebrating a major victory today.  With his speech laying out a new U.S. approach to development at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit, President … Continue reading MFAN Statement: Visionary New Development Policy Lays the Foundation for More Effective Foreign Aid

MFAN Member Calls for Action in Obama’s MDG Speech on Development

By: Staff Person
September 22, 2010

Below is a guest blog post from MFAN member Porter McConnell, Policy Advisor for Oxfam America’s Aid Effectiveness team, on President Obama’s speech later today at the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit, in which he will outline the new U.S. global development policy: President Obama: Just another speech, or… This week, world leaders are … Continue reading MFAN Member Calls for Action in Obama’s MDG Speech on Development

MFAN Principal on a “Huge Missed Opportunity”

By: Staff Person
September 21, 2010

Today, POLITICO published an op-ed by MFAN Principal and Senior Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund Jim Kolbe in which he argues for definitive action on development and foreign assistance reform.  Kolbe cites the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit, currently underway, as the perfect opportunity to take concrete steps toward restoring U.S. leadership in … Continue reading MFAN Principal on a “Huge Missed Opportunity”

USAID’s Shah Says It’s Time to Rethink U.S. Approach to Global Poverty

By: Staff Person
September 20, 2010

In an interview yesterday with Reuters, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah underscored the need for a new approach to development, saying the Obama Administration will be “calling for a really significant rethinking of how development is pursued.”  Citing this week’s important UN Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York, Shah stated that most of the goals … Continue reading USAID’s Shah Says It’s Time to Rethink U.S. Approach to Global Poverty

How GHI can boost foreign assistance reform

By: Staff Person
September 15, 2010

This is an opportune time to look at the GHI’s potential to impact U.S. foreign assistance reform and, to that end, the Global Health Council, the International Women’s Health Coalition and PATH are pleased to launch this joint blog series hosted by the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN). This blog provides an overview and is the first of a series that will be posted on ModernizeAid. We hope you will join us for this series and contribute to the conversation.