InterAction is pleased the Senate Appropriations Committee, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 17-2, approved spending allocations today that would maintain spending for international diplomacy and development at current FY2012 levels. 

On March 1, 2012 AKF USA and the Mott Foundation hosted an event with 45 philanthro

InterAction's Weekly Public Policy Update, covering Feb. 21-24, 2012. The update includes a list of upcoming hearings for next week in both the House and Senate, a summary of a hearing from last week on the situation for NGOs in Egypt, and a list of recommended articles that have come out this week.

Joel Charny is quoted in this radio piece about marketing and fundraising for the Horn of Africa crisis.  InterAction members The ONE Campaign and IRD are also quoted.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/not-exactly-aiding-relief

Read about water wells, vegetable gardens and multilateral cooperation in the Philippines, and about a congregation in Tennessee calling members to act for social justice through their first U2charist.

Read how leadership training in Sierra Leone is improving gender equality, and how one young woman's entrepreneurial spirit is raising awareness and funds for NetsforLife^®.

NGO alliance InterAction welcomes World Bank President Robert Zoellick’s speech today in which he described the importance of civil society's role in development economics.

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The present track-one rebel-government process is insufficient to bring peace to Darfur. Giving civil society a central role in the peace process is a necessity, not a luxury.

“For the first time, there’s been an attempt to rationalize the role of U.S. diplomats and development officers around the world and how diplomacy and development advance U.S.

Originally developed as part of InterAction's Africa Liaison Program Inititiative (ALPI) to foster relationships between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and nongovernmental organizations in the U.S.

This document, published by the CAADP Working Group on Non-State Actor Participation on October 20, 2010, is a summary of an action planning workshop designed to boost non-state actor participation in the CAADP process. 

The June 2010 issue of Monday Developments Magazine

The May 2010 issue of Monday Developments Magazine

The March 2010 issue of Monday Developments Magazine

Report of InterAction member organizations' activities in Iraq for 2009.

A progress report on Sri Lanka and providing full diplomatic and financial support for civilians since publication of InterAction’s 2008 Foreign Assistance Briefing Book.

The November 2009 issue of Monday Developments

The October 2009 issue of Monday Developments

International development actors actors confront two challenging demands: the need to respond to complex development problems with multi-faceted interventions and, at the same time, to demonstrateimpact. In response, InterAction’s Evaluation and Program Effectiveness

As part of InterAction’s effort to help its member organizations increase their accountability to a variety of stakeholders including program participants, partners and donors, InterAction's Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Working Group (EPEWG) recently submitted evaluation standards to InterAction’s Standards Committee.

World Vision will distribute Vestergaard Frandsen’s next-generation anti-malaria bed nets in Zambia beginning next month to better protect households in malaria-endemic communities where the mosquito-borne disease is a top killer of children.

In April 2009, more than 90 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) co-signed a letter calling on President Obama to nominate a qualified USAID Administrator.

This document, published by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in February, 2009, is designed to provide eligible country partners with an overview of how consultations are inte­grated into compact development and implementation, and to explain MCC’s expectations with regard to manage­ment and reporting on this process.

The leadership of major NGOs understands that employees are their most valuable asset. Investing in staff, and in particular staff care, is not only the right thing to do, it is also the cost-effective thing to do. It improves staff retention rates and the completion of assignments, and it decreases the costs associated with frequent staff turnover.

InterAction asked its Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Working Group (EPEWG) to contribute an article to Monday Developments on the evaluation issues of greatest concern to us today. We received input from a range of program area and context perspectives.

Thousands of people in our community are engaged in the day-to-day work of reducing the devastating impact of poverty, providing humanitarian relief and responding to natural and man-made disasters in every country of the world.

Climate change was described as the "defining issue of our era" by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the 2007 G8 Summit in Germany. In this edition of Monday Developments, we explore how climate change is impacting the poor around the world.

In this issue of Monday Developments, we have allowed ourselves the luxury of a deliberately ambitious goal: to invite practitioners from within and outside our community to share with us their take on happenings that are consistent and frequent enough to be considered trends.

We’ve all heard it before: "Americans don’t care about foreign affairs." "Politicians aren’t concerned with the developing world—they’re more interested in getting re-elected, so they only care about local issues." Those in the development community know that these statements aren’t true, and are increasingly proving that fighting poverty and injustice everywhere is an American ideal.

This synthesis, published by Zaza Curran of the Overseas Development Institute in October, 2005, looks at civil society’s participation in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers process and examines whether the recommendations made by civil society organizations were included in the final PRSP documents. 

This briefing paper, published by Oxfam in January, 2004, focuses on civil society partnership and participation in the PRSP processes and offers recommendations for the IMF and World Bank on four specific content areas: macroeconomics, trade, gender and education. 

This document, written by Harry Blair in 1998, examines civil society participation and democracy building through five case studies, from which he offers a number of lessons for international donors planning assistance to civil society.