Sixty years ago today, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signed an executive order that established the Peace Corps.
The United States remains committed to holding to account the Nicaraguan regime of Daniel Ortega by exposing those who suppress the democratic will of the Nicaraguan people.
The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Inter-American Development Bank launched the BetterTogether, or Juntos-Es-Mejor, Challenge.
Six years ago, the U.S. Agency for International Development launched the Global Development Lab, an innovative mechanism that aims to end extreme poverty through the increased application of science, technology, innovation, and partnerships.
The United States has long been the world’s most generous provider of health and humanitarian assistance to people around the world.
A lot of the money U.S. taxpayers have spent in the Mideast has gone into creating things like potable water systems that touch peoples’ lives every day.
The Prosper Africa initiative aims to dramatically increase two-way trade and investment between the United States and Africa.
The Journey to Self-Reliance is intended to orient the U.S Government’s development work toward a time when foreign assistance is no longer necessary.
One challenge to economic growth and self-reliance in Asia today is rising authoritarianism, which weakens democratic institutions and fuels non-transparency and corruption.
“Our goal in Asia,” said Gloria Steele, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Asia Bureau at the U.S. Agency for International Development, “is to help them become prosperous, free and open, and help them to achieve self-reliance.”
Under USAID’s New Partnerships Initiative, or NPI, the agency is looking to partner with organizations that are deeply connected in the communities USAID serves and that have not – or have only in a limited capacity – worked with the agency in the past.
USAID rolled out its first Digital Strategy that will utilize digital technologies to improve its work in development and humanitarian-assistance, and help countries on their journey toward self-reliance through the responsible use of digital technology.
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