Foreign Assistance

What Does The American Public Know About Aid?

Amie Newman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foreign Assistance, U.S. Foreign Aid, Impact News
Amie Newman

It's critical that our news media cover these issues in a way that touches people, and helps people to understand exactly what's happening in the countries, cities, villages, towns, health centers and homes of people around the world.

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Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century

Sarah Trister | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: US Foreign Policy, Congress, Budget Cuts, Foreign Assistance, Foreign Aid, Rethinking US Foreign Policy, US Foreign Aid, Howard Berman, Rethinking US Foreign Assistance, US Foreign Assistance, Foreign Aid Reform, Politics News
Sarah Trister

Howard Berman's bill is the first serious, comprehensive attempt at rewriting the foreign assistance act to make it appropriate for the 21st century.

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When Washington Works

Linda Flanagan | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Disease, David Brooks, Bureaucracy, Foreign Affairs, Global Poverty, Foreign Assistance, Usaid, Sarah Palin, Gates Foundation, Politics News
Linda Flanagan

What most of us don't see, and rarely hear about, is the silent army of civil servants who do the actual work of running the institutions that make up our government.

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Our Job in Pakistan

Taha Gaya | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Strategic Dialogue, White House, Reconstruction Opportunity Zones, US-Pakistan, Coin, Trade, Pakistan, Afghanistan, US Market Access, Foreign Assistance, Usaid, Roz, Politics News
Taha Gaya

We are already making smart development investments in Pakistan in energy and agriculture, but until we make credible game-changing investments in basic education, we can expect those gains to be unsustainable in the long-term.

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U.S. Investments in Health are Working -- and Georgia Reminds Us We Must Sustain and Extend the Gains

Joel Lamstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joel Lamstein, Women's Health, Georgia, Maternal Health, Foreign Assistance, U.S Foreign Assistance, Jsi, Health Care, John Snow Inc., Impact News
Joel Lamstein

Twenty years ago, the countries of the former Soviet Union declared independence. Since that time, many countries in the region have experienced a revolution in women's health care.

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Ugandan Tragedy, Human Rights, and US Foreign Aid

Serra Sippel | Posted 06.17.2011

Read More: Uganda Gay Rights, Foreign Aid, Sexual Rights, Homosexuality, Human Rights, David Kato, Women's Health, Faith-Based Organizations, Abstinence Only, Uganda, Foreign Assistance, Homosexual Rights, Women's Right, Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, World News
Serra Sippel

While the U.S. has condemned egregious examples of rights-violating policies in Uganda, it still funds HIV interventions that are inherently anti-LGBT and anti-woman.

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The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, John Boehner, 2010 Elections, Senate Races, Howard Berman, Foreign Assistance, Eric Cantor, Aipac, Iran, Nato, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, George MItchell, Richard Holbrooke, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamid Karzai, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Petraeus, House GOP, Afghanistan, Jim Demint, Pakistan, Joe Biden, Al Qaeda, John Kyl, Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Rahm Emmanuel, Sarah Palin, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Tom Donilon, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Any Congress, particularly a hostile Congress, has the power to give any sitting president a major national security migraine -- and the incoming House GOP leadership has proven their determination to do just that.

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What Real Foreign Aid Reform Means

David Beckmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aid Reform, Foreign Aid Reform, Foreign Aid Policy, Aid Policy, Foreign Policy, Foreign Assistance, Politics News
David Beckmann

At stake is America's ability to effectively address the global challenges of the 21st century. And the timing is important: in just two months, the eyes of the world will be on the Millennium Development Goals Summit.

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Budget Accountability Must Be Strengthened to Advance Human Rights in Africa

Christina Holder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights Commission, Corruption, Anti-Corruption Commission, Anti-Corruption, Zambia 2010 Budget, Zambia Ministry of Health, Human Right Law, Iccpr, Human Rights, Zambia, Africa, Zambian Judiciary, Budget Accountability, Human Rights Based Development, Foreign Assistance, World News
Christina Holder

That Zambian officials stole millions from the health budget is particularly reprehensible in a country where 14% of the population has HIV/AIDS, and over one in 10 children dies before age 5.

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Got Ideas for Changing the World?

Dr. Rajiv Shah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Usaid, Global Development, Developing Countries, International Development, Development, Rajiv Shah, Foreign Assistance, Obama Cairo Speech, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Home News
Dr. Rajiv Shah

Just over one year ago, President Obama gave a rousing speech in Cairo laying out a vision of a new ethic for U.S. relations with the world - that of ...

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Time To Make U.S. Foreign Assistance Work -- for Women and Men

Ritu Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usaid, Women, Foreign Aid, Poverty, President Obama, Global Poverty, Foreign Assistance, Gender, Rajiv Shah, World News
Ritu Sharma

Despite so much hard work, Betilde remains one of the billion people in the world struggling to survive on less than a dollar a day. The majority of the bottom billion, about 829 million, are women.

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President Obama and the Spirit of Global Development Partnership

Noam Unger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Social Innovation, Noam Unger, Public/Private Partnerships, Jane Nelson, Obama Service, Corporate Social Responsibility, Foreign Assistance, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Innovation Fund, Clinton Global Initiative, Johannes Linn, Homi Kharas, Global Poverty, Development, Brookings Institution, World News
Noam Unger

Obama's speech was a call for a new spirit of global partnership, emphasizing that real progress in lifting millions out of poverty and countering transnational threats cannot be made by governments alone.

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Obama in Ghana: Time to End Tied Aid

David Gartner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Foreign Assistance, Africa, Ghana, Poverty, Obama Ghana Trip, Obama Ghana, World News
David Gartner

Virtually all food assistance provided by the United States to Africa is required to be produced and packaged here and shipped on U.S. flagged vessels halfway around the world.

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Sir Bob Geldof, Bono, Jeff Sachs and Bill Easterly Should Lead on the Reform of the Levers of Foreign Assistance

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bono, Jeff Sachs, Foreign Assistance, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Easterly, Sir Bob Geldof, Silvio Berlusconi, World Bank, World News
Sunil Chacko

Leading lights of the aid movement -- Geldof, Bono, Sachs and Easterly -- continue to bicker with politicians and amongst themselves without taking a visible role in reform of the levers of assistance.

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Convoluted Foreign Aid

David Beckmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Gao, Foreign Assistance, Foreign Affairs, Government Accountability Office, US Foreign Aid, World News
David Beckmann

U.S. foreign assistance has worked miracles around the globe, but is in dire need of an overhaul.

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"Game-Changing Pick" Under Consideration to Head New Foreign Assistance Effort

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Equity, Paul Farmer, Pepfar, Health, US Foreign Policy, Global Poverty, Foreign Assistance, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Dr. Paul Farmer expressed eagerness to take the post if it entails reorganizing U.S. foreign assistance, and if he has widespread grassroots support from the global health community.

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Foreign Assistance Crucial To World Health And U.S. Security

Jirair Ratevosian and David Bryden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Community, Foreign Aid, International Affairs, Clinton Global Initiative, Economic Crisis, Election 2008, Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Aid, Barack Obama, John McCain, Campaign 2008, Home News
Jirair Ratevosian and David Bryden

Why are both parties, who have repeatedly spoken in favor of increasing foreign assistance, now so quick to propose slowing down or canceling aid that can help fight urgent disease threats and restore America's battered image abroad?

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Healthy Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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