Public Policy & Advocacy Briefs/Reports
Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development.Weekly Twitter Round UpUS NGOs say foreign aid funding cuts will have dire impact on world's poor: http://t.co/U15eY3A
InterAction Federal Budget Table: FY12 House State, Foreign Operations Subcommittee bill
The budget table details account levels for international poverty-focused and humanitarian assistance as well as other pertinent accounts within the U.S. International Affairs Budget (Function 150) that InterAction tracks and analyzes for its members.This table shows account levels from the FY2012 House State, Foreign Operations subcommittee bill passed out of subcommittee July 27, 2011. The table compares the account levels from that bill to the final totals enacted in FY2010, FY2011 and the FY2012 administration request. A draft of the House committee report was subsequently released, and this budget table has been updated accordingly.
InterAction Statement: House Republican appropriators today continued their assault on U.S. international efforts to reduce poverty, address climate change, and respond to famine and other disasters. This comes a week after the House Foreign Affairs Committee also sought to gut core development accounts.
InterAction Statement: Proposed cuts included in the State Department and foreign operations appropriations bill in the House of Representatives would have devastating consequences for the world's most vulnerable populations and gut core development and humanitarian spending accounts, said InterAction, the biggest alliance of U.S.-based international NGOs on Wednesday.
Prospective 2012 U.S. presidential candidates who want to limit our engagement abroad and those lawmakers who propose cuts to the 2012 foreign affairs budget have forgotten a basic budgeting rule.
InterAction News Release: At a critical juncture in the deficit reduction talks a diverse coalition of over 40 prominent international and domestic NGOs have joined the leaders of dozens of national faith organizations in calling on the Obama administration and congressional leadership to protect programs benefitting poor and hungry people both here and abroad from budget cuts.
Robust foreign assistance helps governments in developing countries build more stable, prosperous societies, and can be a catalyst in pulling a country out of poverty.
We, members of the G8, strongly support the aspirations of the "Arab spring" as well as those of the Iranian people.
The G8 and Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa, and the African Union Commission, highlight the importance of an enhanced partnership between the G8 and Africa. Africa is on the move, and is becoming a new pole for global growth, even if challenges to be addressed remain, particularly in the least developed countries. The G8 and Africa stand side-by-side during this key time of change.
G8 Deauville Declaration outlines commitments made by world leaders on May 6-27, 2011.
