InterAction Press Releases
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WASHINGTON (June 18, 2013) – NGO alliance InterAction welcomes the recent introduction of amendment #55 to H.R. 1947, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM Act), offered by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Elliot Engel (D-NY). This bipartisan amendment makes common-sense reforms that provide much needed flexibility to the Food for Peace program, which has helped feed more than 3 billion people in more than 150 countries over the last 60 years. This added flexibility will help the United States save millions more lives without spending any additional U.S. taxpayer dollars.Read the full press release (attached).
G8 commitments to fight tax evasion and global corruption are welcome, but the world’s most powerful leaders must go further and attach enforcement mechanisms and implementation deadlines to their promises, said NGO alliance InterAction on Tuesday.
NGO alliance InterAction and the 1,000 Days Partnership applaud the U.S. government’s commitment to devote more funding and attention over the next three years to nutrition-specific interventions.
U.S.-based NGO alliance InterAction welcomed the release on Friday of the G8’s annual accountability report on development issues, but urged world leaders to make a more concerted effort to fulfill promises on agriculture and food security.
Members of the NGO alliance InterAction have pledged to invest more than $750 million in nutrition programs over the next five years, the U.S.-based group said in a joint statement with the 1,000 Days Partnership.
Leading NGO alliance InterAction welcomed on Thursday the release of a report by the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda that set a target of 2030 to end extreme poverty.
Congressional leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday capped spending on foreign aid for fiscal year 2014 at disproportionately low levels, a move that the NGO alliance InterAction warned could cost lives and roll back significant development gains. For the State, Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, the committee has allocated $40.6 billion, well below current funding levels and the president’s budget request. This funding cap could amount to as much as a 20 percent cut from fiscal year 2013 to foreign assistance, an account already hit hard by sequestration.
The budget plan President Barack Obama rolled out Wednesday reflects a sustained commitment overall to poverty-focused development assistance that leading NGO alliance InterAction welcomed.
Leading NGOs respond to President Obama’s international affairs budget recommendations for fiscal year 2014.
Leading NGO alliance InterAction supports efforts to reform food assistance programs and urges U.S. lawmakers to retain the focus of these programs on reaching the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.
