Public Policy & Advocacy Briefs/Reports
Offers account-by-account details of proposed U.S. government FY2014 foreign assistance funding numbers as well as InterAction recommendations for funding levels.Note: last updated July 26, 2013
Offers account-by-account details of proposed U.S. government FY2014 foreign assistance funding numbers as well as InterAction recommendations for funding levels.Note: last updated July 26, 2013
This week's Update includes an analysis of a little-noticed provision in the Budget Control Act of 2011. Given the failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (or “supercommittee”) to come to an agreement in November, the provision revises the “security” and “non-security” categories to which the discretionary spending caps apply. This revision has potentially important consequences for the International Affairs budget in FY2013. Additionally, the Update includes upcoming hearings and articles of interest.
Identified as a key principle of effective development, country ownership has become an ever-present part of the foreign assistance reform debate. While the Obama administration has embraced country ownership in the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development (PPD) and other executive initiatives, it remains unclear how to put this principle into practice on the ground.
The December 2011 issue of Monday Developments Magazine
When we went to press Friday afternoon, the House had passed H.R. 2055, the “megabus” conference agreement on the nine remaining appropriations bills including State, Foreign Operations. The vote was 296-121.
Today, Congress is passing and sending to the president the final conference agreement on the nine remaining spending measures for fiscal 2012.
The Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation is the outcome document of the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held November 29 - December 1, 2011 in Busan, South Korea.
This week, negotiations between congressional appropriators in both chambers continued on the nine remaining FY2012 appropriations bills that will likely consolidated into one omnibus (also known as a “megabus”) spending package. Dec. 16 remains the goal for completion of the measure. According to Congressional Quarterly’s Budget Tracker this morning, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Norm Dicks (D-WA) said that negotiations on “most” of the bills are done, although issues remain over FY2012 funding for Labor-Health and Human Services-Education bill. Stay tuned.The Update below includes short news pieces on the Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act and on Secretary Clinton’s appearance at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in addition to upcoming hearings, a summary on this week’s House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on the Iraqi police program, and articles of interest.
Sam Worthington's op-ed on foreign assistance, published on the day of the CNN National Security Debate on 11/22/11.
