Scope of Interagency Influence and Authority
Over the past three days, we’ve laid out a number of key issues to be grappled with as the U.S. government meshes its foreign assistance programs with the…
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Conditionality in U.S. Foreign Assistance
LGBT hate crimes and other abuses are a clear concern in a number of countries. Our developmental assistance policy-makers inevitably will confront the question of whether – and…
Read moreMillennium Challenge Corporation Places Operational Hold on Malawi Compact
For Immediate Release July 26, 2011 Contact: Nasserie Carew 202 521-7258 (office) 202 631-7117 carewnm@mcc.gov Millennium Challenge Corporation Places Operational Hold on Malawi Compact The Millennium Challenge Corporation…
Read moreU.S. Condemns Violent Disruption of Protests in Malawi
July 21, 2011 For immediate release and posting: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson STATEMENT BY HEIDE BRONKE FULTON, ACTING DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON U.S. Condemns Violent Disruption…
Read moreMalawi Government Targets NGOs Working for LGBTI Human Rights
repost from African Activist In less than 20 days after the United States unfroze $350 million in foreign aid to Malawi, the government is claiming that Norwegian and…
Read moreCouncil position on suspension of $350 million in development assistance to Malawi
In February the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government-funded development institution, suspended an agreement with Malawi, focused on energy sector development, based in part on concerns over a…
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