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The State Department has historically played a critical role in US government efforts to promote development and address humanitarian crises around the world, including managing US contributions to international organizations, overseeing the US commitment to fight global HIV/AIDS through PEPFAR, advancing global women’s issues, establishing the US strategy for engagement—and coordination with development actors—in fragile states, and facilitating aid to refugees.

Following the dissolution of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), many of the agency’s core functions were absorbed into the State Department, making State the primary instrument of US foreign assistance.

As the future of foreign assistance evolves, CGD experts continue to analyze the State Department’s development-related policies and practices, offering evidence-based proposals to strengthen this central pillar of US foreign assistance.