On October 29th, Bread for the World President and MFAN Co-Chair Rev. David Beckmann testified at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on African and Global Health on “A Call to Action on Food Security: The Administration’s Global Strategy.”
Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) have introduced a resolution (S.Res.312) that calls for the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development to be named expeditiously as well as a strengthened and empowered USAID.
In a recent piece on the Center for Global Development’s “Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance” blog, CGD Senior Policy Analyst and MFAN Principal Sheila Herrling comments on the growing trend of work-arounds of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as the agency lingers in its ninth month without an Administrator appointed by President Obama.
Rev. David Beckmann, co-chair of MFAN and president of the faith-based hunger group Bread for the World, will deliver a eulogy today on the campus of Texas A&M University at the memorial service for 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and so-called father of the “Green Revolution” Dr. Norman Borlaug, the plant scientist who died on Sept. 12 at the age of 95.
WWF US President and CEO Carter Roberts, one of the world’s leading conservationists, has a unique view on foreign assistance reform. Today, he brought his message to Capitol Hill for a bi-cameral hearing on the innovative Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP).
In a speech Friday at the Clinton Global Initiative, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the framework for the Obama Administration’s Food Security Initiative, which could provide a new model of strategic coordination for U.S. development efforts. Referencing both the G-8 commitment of $20 billion for food security and the State Department Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), Clinton hailed a new U.S. commitment to the fight against global poverty and hunger, and pledged to transform U.S. development policy to improve transparency, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability for more effective long-term investments .
As part of the Center for Global Development’s newly launched blog – Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance – MFAN Principal and CGD Senior Policy Analyst Sheila Herrling highlights a recent letter from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and Ranking Member Dick Lugar (R-IN) urging President Obama to name a nominee to the vacant … Continue reading Kerry & Lugar Deliver Message to Obama: Time is of the Essence for a USAID Administrator
On Friday, President Obama nominated Daniel W. Yohannes as CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Yohannes’ strong financial services background will ensure good returns in investments made through the MCC and his wealth of leadership experience makes him a strong and able candidate.
During his opening statement at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Senator Dick Lugar noted that the lack of a USAID Administrator is a major problem given the importance of development to U.S. objectives.
Over the past two weeks, MFAN’s USAID poll has drawn thousands of votes from around the world. More importantly, those voters have made their opinions known about who they voted for and why.
