InterAction is the largest coalition of U.S.-based international nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) focused on the world’s poor and most
vulnerable people.
Collectively, InterAction’s more than 165 members
work in every developing country. Members meet people halfway in expanding opportunities and supporting gender equality in education, health care, agriculture, small business, and other areas.
The U.S. public shows its support for this work through contributions to InterAction members totalling
around $6 billion annually. InterAction leverages the impact of this
private support by advocating for the expansion of U.S. government investments
and by insisting that policies and programs are responsive to
the realities of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations.
InterAction's Bold New Agenda for Relief and Development
InterAction’s comparative advantage rests on the uniquely field and
practitioner-based expertise of its members, who assist in compiling data on the impact of NGO programs as a
basis for promoting best practices and for evidence-based public
policy formulation.
Neither InterAction nor its members bear lightly the responsibility of the trust the American people place in us. As such, members adhere to InterAction’s high standards that help assure accountability in the critical areas of financial management, fundraising, governance, and program performance.
InterAction brings the values and experience of the NGO community
into the broader development and humanitarian assistance community
through strategic alliances with key partners around particular issues
and objectives. These partnerships further leverage InterAction’s
political, intellectual, and financial capital.
In 2007-2009, InterAction's work will be guided by the following priorities:
GOAL #1:
Promote a bold agenda to focus U.S. development and
humanitarian assistance on improving the conditions of
the world’s poor and most vulnerable.
Engage with the USG to advance poverty alleviation and humanitarian relief as major independent US foreign assistance priorities.
Advocate for the creation of a Cabinet-level US Department of Development and Humanitarian Assistance.
GOAL #2:
Demonstrate and enhance NGO accountability and impact in development and humanitarian action. Focus on aggregating the contributions of the NGO community towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, on broadening compliance with the Sphere Project’s Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, and on aligning with other key global frameworks that advance development efforts and enable humanitarian action.
GOAL #3:
Be the voice and prime representative of US international NGOs in building alliances and common agendas with NGO networks around the world and with other strategic partners.
