Women in Ghana: Are We Helping Them Feed the Future?
See below for a guest post from MFAN Partner Women Thrive Worldwide. This piece is the first in our series that features reporting on how the President’s global development policy is being implemented...
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Moving local organizations into the driver’s seat
See below for a guest post from Carlos Cardenas, Country Director in Guatemala Save the Children. This is the second post in our field feedback series and part of a new blog series launched by Save the...
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I fight corruption, and I support procurement reform.
See below for a guest blog from Livingstone Sewanyana, a human rights lawyer and the executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative. This is the third post in our field feedback...
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Continually Working Ourselves Out of a Job, One Community at a Time
See below for a guest blog from John Donnelly in which he describes the success of PROSALUD, a nonprofit healthcare group in Bolivia. This post is part of book from MFAN partner Management Sciences for...
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Fighting global poverty with locally led strategies
See below for a guest blog from Matthew Pickard, Save the Children’s Malawi Country Director. This is the fifth post in our field feedback series and the second in Save’s “Aid Reform Stories from the...
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Driving sustainable global health programs with local partners
See below for a guest blog from Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando, deputy country director for PATH Kenya, and Aaron Emmel, senior policy advisor at PATH. This is the sixth post in our field feedback series...
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Building resilience in the Horn of Africa
See below for a guest blog from Abomsa Kebede, Technical Advisor for Save the Children in Ethiopia. This post describes the benefits of USAID’s new resilience strategy, which was unveiled today. This...
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Liberia’s Government Takes the Helm to Protect Vulnerable Children
See below for a guest blog from Geoffrey Oyat, Child Protection Manager in Liberia. This is the ninth post in our field feedback series and the fifth in Save’s “Aid Reform Stories from the Field”...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: USAID Offers Evidence of Reform Progress
March 20, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe: We strongly commend...
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See below for an op-ed from MFAN’s co-chairs Rev. David Beckmann, George Ingram, and Jim Kolbe. This piece first appeared in Politico. *** The amount of good our nation has done for poor and hungry...
View Article2013 Aid Transparency Index
See below for a guest post from MFAN Co-Chair and Brookings senior fellow George Ingram on today’s release of the 2013 Aid Transparency Index. The post originally appeared on Brookings Up Front blog....
View ArticleI fight corruption, and I support procurement reform.
I have seen that development dollars, when directed at both the civil society groups and local governments, add more value and reduce the risk of waste and abuse. More support to local civil society...
View ArticleContinually Working Ourselves Out of a Job, One Community at a Time
Today, PROSALUD has created a primary and secondary health care model that works in six of Bolivia’s nine departments, operating 27 clinics, five hospitals, and one child development center. All of its...
View ArticleFighting global poverty with locally led strategies
See below for a guest blog from Matthew Pickard, Save the Children’s Malawi Country Director. This is the fifth post in our field feedback series and the second in Save’s “Aid Reform Stories from the...
View ArticleDriving sustainable global health programs with local partners
At PATH, we integrate the country ownership approach in three ways. First, we ensure that key local and national stakeholders are involved in the planning, implementation, and execution of health...
View ArticleBuilding resilience in the Horn of Africa
Today USAID will unveil a new resilience strategy to support chronically risk-prone communities in between, before and after the repeat cycles of disaster. Furthermore, the agency will begin to...
View ArticleLiberia’s Government Takes the Helm to Protect Vulnerable Children
Building stronger and more responsive government institutions is a challenging task, particularly in a country like Liberia that has been so deeply impacted by war. The post Liberia’s Government Takes...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: USAID Offers Evidence of Reform Progress
This progress could not have come at a better time; budget pressures demand better results, and the Agency will bear greater responsibility at the leading edge of U.S. foreign policy as our military...
View ArticleTransforming foreign assistance
ompleting the transformation of U.S. foreign assistance will reposition the U.S. as not just the most generous, but also the most strategic, innovative, and effective player in global development. We...
View Article2013 Aid Transparency Index
At the policy level, the commitment and leadership of the Obama administration—through several White House directives instructing all agencies to embrace open government and open data that is machine...
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