New Brookings Policy Briefs on Making Development Aid More Effective
Given the need to reform development assistance efforts within the current window of political opportunity, the Brookings Institution recently released a series of policy briefs that offer a range of...
View Article10 Reasons Conservatives Must Support Aid Reform
In a recent series of blog posts for MFAN’s ModernizeAid blog, former Congressman Mark Green (R-WI) of the Malaria No More Policy Center lays out the Conservative case for foreign assistance reform....
View ArticleWartime Interagency Collaboration: A Tale of Two Articles
“This lack of cooperation and coordination is especially prominent in DC, which I observed while serving as a consultant on Iraq policy at the State Department (2005-6) and then with DOD (2008-9). It...
View ArticleMFAN Co-Chairs: It’s Time to Finish the Job on Foreign Aid Reform
The fact that we have come this far shows there is a broad, bipartisan consensus in Washington on the need to make U.S. foreign aid more effective, particularly because it is so critical to ongoing...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: RSC Budget Proposal Would Derail Progress on Foreign...
We strongly oppose last week’s Republican Study Committee budget proposal, which would cut all operating expenses at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The cuts would...
View ArticleGOP Voices Make the Case for Effective Foreign Aid
As a new Congress gets into gear, both Republicans and Democrats have a solemn duty to do the people’s work and to make sure their taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely. U.S. foreign assistance is...
View ArticleUpdate on the Budget
State’s spokesman P.J. Crowley told POLITICO, “If we have to take a significant cut in foreign assistance, in some fashion, that is going to affect Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. Those are...
View ArticleSen. Graham Defends State, USAID
"If you don't want to use military force any more than you have to, count me in. State Department, USAID, all of these programs, in their own way, help win this struggle against radical Islam. The...
View ArticleA Message to Freshman Members of Congress: Invest in nation’s smart power
Representatives Gerald Connolly (D-VA) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ) authored an op-ed which appeared in today's Politico about the importance of investing in smart power regardless of one's political...
View ArticleSave the Children Releases Report, Afghanistan in Transition
MFAN partner Save the Children has released a report, Afghanistan in Transition, calling for attention to development and governance during the impending withdrawal of U.S. troops, and outlaying...
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