Useful Links

This page aims to consolidate in one place links to other resources focusing on U.S. foreign assistance reform. These links include websites of government and non-government organizations, relevant documents and key speeches. Please also look at our collection of CGD publications for further information and the Election ’08 site for candidates’ statements on U.S. global development and foreign assistance policy.

GOVERNMENT

• AFRICOM
• Congressional Research Service (CRS) 
• Department of State--Office of the Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance 
• HELP Commission
  • Dissenting Report
• President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
• Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

NON-GOVERNMENT

• Bread for the World
• Brookings Institution 
• CGD's Global Development Matters
• Carnegie Endowment Assessing Secretary of State Rice's Reform of U.S. Foreign Assistance 
• CSIS Commission on Smart Power
• Center for U.S. Global Engagement 
• Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa’s (DATA)
• OECD Development Assistance Committee 
• InterAction’s
• ONE Campaign
• ONE Vote ’08
• Oxfam America 
• Eastern Mennonite University 
• The German Marshall Fund of the United States 

NON-CGD DOCUMENTS

• Embassies Grapple to Guide Foreign Aid (Lugar report to the Committee on Foreign Relations), November 2007
• Foreign Aid Reform: Issues for Congress and Policy Options, November 2007
• Foreign Assistance Act
• Impact ’08
• Integrating 21st Century Development and Security Assistance
• National Security Strategy, March 2006
• Revitalizing International Cooperation: A Bipartisan Agenda, November 2007
• A Smarter, More Secure America
• U.S. Foreign Assistance for Legislation, Objectives and Organizations from Security by Other Means (Brookings 2006)

KEY SPEECHES

• Betty McCollum, Congresswoman (D-MN), January 27, 2008
• Robert Gates, Defense Secretary, Landon Lecture, November 26, 2007
• Henrietta Holsman Fore, USAID Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance, Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, September 19, 2007
• Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, Georgetown University, January 18, 2006