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The Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Blog complements CGD's Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance initiative. Both are for professionals interested in tracking US Foreign Assistance and its impact on developing countries.

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From the White House with Love: Call for Global Development Council Nominees

2/13/12
Sarah Jane Staats

The development community got an early Valentine from the White House: an executive order establishing the President’s Global Development Council. The council’s mission is to inform the president and other senior government officials on U.S. global development policies. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help the White House generate nominees for the twelve non-government seats at the table.

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Road Under Construction: What Does the PPD Mean for USAID?

9/28/10
Connie Veillette

President Obama and Secretary Clinton have been quite vocal in pledging to rebuild USAID into “the world’s premier development agency.”  The newly issued development policy does not make it clear just how that will happen, or if it will happen at all.

In general terms, any government agency is strong only to the extent that it has at least these three conditions:

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Dear Clinton, Jones, and Summers: Five Step Improvement Plan for U.S. Development

7/15/10
Nancy Birdsall

Six months after the Haiti quake, many people are frustrated that the U.S.-led relief and reconstruction effort has not made more rapid progress. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and USAID Administrator Raj Shah are headed for Pakistan, where the strategic stakes are larger, development challenges even more complicated, and U.S. policy muddled at best. Eighteen months into the administration, the federal government remains abysmally organized to address Haiti, Pakistan and other development challenges.

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Will Obama’s National Security Strategy Get the Development Policy Ball Rolling?

5/25/10
Sarah Jane Staats

Update: President Obama’s National Security Strategy is now available here. You can also watch Secretary Clinton’s remarks on the new strategy. More analysis here!

The Obama administration is set to unveil its National Security Strategy (NSS) this week. President Obama previewed the strategy during his West Point commencement speech (the same venue where former President George W. Bush previewed the 2002 National Security Strategy). The new strategy will cover prevention of nuclear proliferation and terrorism as well as the use of defense, development and diplomacy in the U.S. national security interest.

In his West Point remarks, President Obama characterized the challenges of our times as “countering violent extremism and insurgency; stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and securing nuclear materials; combating a changing climate and sustaining global growth; helping countries feed themselves and care for their sick; preventing conflicts and healing wounds.”

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