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We work with our Members to promote a robust U.S. foreign assistance budget. Our community engages with Congress to ensure the U.S. remains focused on ending global poverty and on helping people make better lives for themselves and their families, all around the globe.

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Lisa Peña

Director, Policy, Budget and Appropriations

We advocate against policies and practices that restrict the ability of civil society organizations to save lives. We also educate Congress and Member organizations about policies that inadvertently harm NGO and CSO operations.

We seek to raise awareness of the ongoing crises in these countries and advocate for greater funding and humanitarian access to address these crises.

We work with our Members to educate members of Congress on the fundamental principles and operations of international development, humanitarian action, and U.S. foreign assistance programs.

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Sara Nitz

Senior Manager, Policy and Advocacy

With our Members and partners, we seek to promote human rights, support government transparency and accountability, and advocate for independent and politically active civil society across the globe.

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Brian Wanko

Manager, Democracy, Rights, and Governance Initiative

We raise the profile of disaster risk reduction (DRR) on the global policy agenda and encourage strategic investments that support the most vulnerable countries and communities to prepare, reduce, and manage disasters.

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Mohamed Hilmi

Senior Coordinator and Technical Specialist, Shelter, Settlements, and DRR

In response to a growing concern over false and misleading information, we're helping NGOs initiate a conversation on how disinformation may impact them and also creating resources to help our community address it.

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Princess Bazley-Bethea

Manager, Together Project

In order to address rising hunger and malnutrition, we advocate for and support investments in food and nutrition security and agricultural development, which can act as engines of economic growth and reduced poverty. By doing so, we are directly addressing the root causes of acute hunger and malnutrition.

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Sara Nitz

Senior Manager, Policy and Advocacy

Globally, hundreds of millions of people are hungry and malnourished. Since it was enacted, the Global Food Security Act helps millions of people in developing countries to live healthy, productive lives. We have played a leading role in convening a broad group of NGOs and other stakeholders to help shape this legislation.

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Sara Nitz

Senior Manager, Policy and Advocacy

We work with our Members to share programmatic approaches, identify gaps in health delivery and policy, and develop recommendations for addressing health needs and improving services to poor and at-risk populations.

Our field missions examine critical humanitarian issues and trends, and how they are being addressed by humanitarian actors, in order to highlight key issues and recommend possible strategies and measures to address them to practitioners, policymakers, donor governments, and humanitarian leaders.

We conduct research to identify key innovative finance instruments and how they have been, or can be, used to better help development NGOs exploring innovative finance opportunities.

Our risk work focuses on the experience of international organizations and the ways in which they identify, measure, and manage risk within their own programming and policies.

We work to address the issue of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) of beneficiary populations by humanitarian and development assistance staff.

Since 2012, InterAction has gathered experts and experienced practitioners to actively contribute to identification, review, validation, and use of the key elements supporting results-based approaches to protection. Thank you for visiting our new website! Over the next few months, we will update this page with new content and move over past work from our old site. Please check back for more news, and reach out to us at communications@interaction.org with any questions.

To improve NGO accountability, we work with our Members to ensure they adhere to certain ethical guidelines that govern NGO governance, financial reporting, fundraising, public relations, management practice, human resources, and program services.

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Carolyn J. Aeby

Vice President, Membership and Public Engagement

We are dedicated to sustaining the momentum of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and continuing the inclusion of civil society in this space.

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are crucial building blocks for development. WASH interventions improve health outcomes, advance education, and reduce poverty and malnutrition. We seek to improve policies related to WASH in order to increase access to these services around the globe.