Aid Reform that Works: How Ownership, Partnership, Coordination, and Innovation Should be the Core of America’s New Approach to Development

By: Staff Person
July 12, 2010

To demonstrate principles of effective aid – and communicate what still needs to be done – MFAN canvassed its Partners to share cases in which a new, innovative way of thinking led to improving the livelihood of an individual, a community or a country. The following success stories articulate some of the core principles – Ownership, Partnership, Coordination, and Innovation – that MFAN believes should provide the underpinnings of foreign assistance reform.

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah Speaks on Global Health Initiative

By: Staff Person
July 2, 2010

On Tuesday, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Dr. Rajiv Shah spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) regarding the president’s Global Health Initiative (GHI), and the steps that USAID is taking to provide effective, long-term assistance.

Partner Series: Women Thrive Travels to Burkina Faso

By: Staff Person
July 1, 2010

“What would they do with the extra income if they had it? I asked. They told me that they would first buy some land as a group sothey are not always worried about losing it to men in the community, or discouraged from improving it (because it could be taken away from them at any moment). Next, they said, they would dig communal wells, so they could access better water and avoid the hours of travel that take away from time farming or caring for their children.”

Partner Series: Oxfam America’s Aid Effectiveness Campaign

By: Staff Person
June 23, 2010

One partner, Oxfam America has developed an Aid Reform program dedicated to bringing the voices and priorities of people living in poverty to the center of policy and practice. Oxfam believes that improving poverty-focused aid, rather than aid for security or strategic purposes, is the only way to make the U.S. a truly effective provider of foreign aid, by saving lives and helping nearly half of the world’s population to overcome poverty.

MFAN Partner Save Releases New Report on Country Ownership

By: Staff Person
June 16, 2010

Today, MFAN Partner Save the Children released a brief four-page paper on principles to support country ownership, “Supporting Local Ownership and Building National Capacity: Applying a flexible and country-based approach to aid instruments.”

Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosts day-long symposium on global hunger & food security

By: Staff Person
May 27, 2010

On May 20, 2010, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosted a day-long symposium on Agriculture and Food Security. Dr. Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator, delivered the keynote address and shared the U.S. Government’s implementation strategy for its global hunger and food security initiative, now called “Feed the Future.” Feed the Future demonstrates adherence to key foreign assistance reform principles in accelerating progress toward the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.

WHer and PMIer Sound Foreign Assistance Reform Themes

By: Staff Person
March 17, 2010

This morning, the Malaria No More Policy Center held its annual Champions Breakfast honoring the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Coordinator, Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer (ret), and Office of Management and Budget Senior Health Advisor Ezekiel Emanuel.  Also in attendance was Emanual’s brother, Rahm, the White House Chief of Staff, as well as Representatives Don Payne … Continue reading WHer and PMIer Sound Foreign Assistance Reform Themes