Yesterday, Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator announced at the Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that the Obama administration is making a three-year pledge of $4 billion to the Global Fund for 2011 through 2013. This is a 38% increase from the previous years will significantly help … Continue reading This Week from USAID’s Impact Blog
In light of new confirmations this week, below is the latest version of the Center for Global Development’s USAID Staff Tracker. Of note, former MFAN Principal and MercyCorps President Nancy Lindborg was confirmed as the assistant administrator for democracy, conflict, and humanitarian assistance at USAID on Wednesday. Read more about recent confirmations made before the … Continue reading MFAN Partner CGD’s Staff Tracker
The following are highlights from USAID’s participation in events in New York last week. USAID had a strong presence in the city, particularly USAID Administrator, Rajiv Shah. On the morning of September 21st, Raj Shah, Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, and Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS … Continue reading A Review of USAID’s Major New York Events from Last Week:
Click here to read a variety of commentary and analysis from MFAN partners and the broader development community regarding President Obama’s new development policy.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) issued a statement today praising President Obama’s new development policy that was released yesterday in conjunction with his speech at the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit.
Don’t have a subscription to CQ? No problem. Read Emily Cadei’s article on House Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman’s hopes for foreign assistance reform here on ModernizeAid. “I don’t have the ability to make foreign assistance reform happen myself,” Berman said Tuesday at a forum hosted by the Society for International Development- Washington. “We have to have buy-in from both parties, both houses and, most especially, the executive branch. This is not something that’s done over their opposition.”
Earlier today, Mary Beth Sheridan of the Washington Post published a preview of the new development policy Obama is scheduled to unveil this afternoon in his MDG speech. Two MFAN principals were quoted in the article. Click here to read the full article and be sure to visit ModernizeAid later today to get a read-out of President Obama’s speech.
In remarks today at the first event of the 2010-11 program year for the Society for International Development’s (SID) Washington, DC Chapter, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) reaffirmed his plans to introduce a comprehensive foreign aid reform bill that would replace the existing outdated Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
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
Last week, OMB Watch delivered a letter to President Obama calling for the U.S. government to publicly commit to greater transparency in U.S. foreign aid at this week’s UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
