Jake Grover

USAID Saw It Coming, but Fighting Famine Is Still Not Easy

8/3/11

USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) saw this coming a long way off. Sifting through their archive of food security updates, there are myriad warnings of drought and an impending food security crisis. As early as August 2010, FEWS NET predicted “below-normal rains… due to a developing La Niña event” and an

Peer Review Preview: International Critique of U.S. Foreign Assistance Due Out This Week

7/18/11

Jake Grover

It’s not often that U.S. development assistance efforts are subject to an independent, international critique. Such a review, undertaken by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based club of donor nations, happens roughly every four or five years, and the findings for the U.S. are due out this week.

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USAID Saw It Coming, but Fighting Famine Is Still Not Easy

Peer Review Preview: International Critique of U.S. Foreign Assistance Due Out This Week