International Development
The US cut billions in health aid for Africa; we went there to see the impact
The closure of USAID shook the world, especially the USAID-dependent NGOs scrambling to close abruptly and figure out their future after the Trump administration...
8 former CDC directors: Reform PEPFAR, don’t dismantle it
On Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda to be a public...
United States Pledges Additional $1.8 Billion in Life-Saving Humanitarian Funding to OCHA’s Humanitarian Reset & Shares Powerful Results from the Trump Administration’s UN Humanitarian...
Today, building on the tremendous success of the Trump Administration’s landmark December 2025 “Humanitarian Reset” framework agreement between the United States and the United...
Health in a World of Crises and Impunity
239 million people need humanitarian assistance. Only 87 million will receive it. A landmark new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health–Lancet...
New MFAN Policy Commentary – Alignment is Not Subordination: Making Foreign Assistance Consolidation Work
In a new Policy Commentary, "Alignment is Not Subordination: Making Foreign Assistance Consolidation Work," Dennis Vega, President & CEO of Pact, an MFAN member,...
USAID has $19B to close out agency. Critics push to use funds to save lives
The now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has told Congress it has $19 billion in funds to cover costs associated with closing out...
America First Global Health Guidance Launches Fee-for-Service Coup Against CDC
The Department of State is turning the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s global HIV program into a disempowered, McKinsey consulting firm-esque entity...
The Future of Foreign Assistance
A year on from the largest contraction in the history of official development assistance, the conversation in Washington and across the philanthropic sector has...
Ambassador Samantha Power: Reimagining international aid
What are the causes and consequences of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)? Ambassador Samantha Power, USAID administrator from 2021 to 2025...
Democrats Press Rubio Over Missing AIDS Relief Data
Two top Democrats are demanding answers from Secretary of State Marco Rubio over missing data about the decades-old PEPFAR global health program, warning the...
Avoiding Premature Structural Changes to Food for Peace
For decades, the Food for Peace Act, as reauthorized in the Farm Bill, has demonstrated the generosity
of the American people by purchasing food from...
DFC CEO Ben Black at Endless Frontiers: American Economic Statecraft Is Back
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO Ben Black delivered a keynote address at the Council on Foreign Relations’ 2026 Endless Frontiers forum in...
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