MCC’s First Five
MFAN member John Glenn writes about the importance of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s first round of impact evaluations, which were released yesterday. Glenn points to the evaluations as a model...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: President Obama Can Use Second Term to Solidify Gains, Drive...
November 13, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe: MFAN wishes to...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: Senate Must Pass Landmark Aid Transparency and Evaluation Bill
January 2, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe: We strongly applaud...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: Senate Does Disservice to Americans, Allies & Foreign...
January 4, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe: We are disappointed...
View ArticleOn the Record: Senator Kerry on Foreign Aid Reform
During his time as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator John Kerry (D-MA) became a vocal proponent for effective foreign assistance. As his confirmation hearing to become the next...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: Food Aid Reform Necessary; Administration Urged to Release...
February 19, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe: The Modernizing...
View ArticleWhy Congress Should Care About the International Aid Transparency Initiative
See below for a guest post from MFAN co-chair and Brookings senior fellow George Ingram on how the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and the Foreign Assistance Dashboard are the tools...
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The Bar on Food Aid Reform has been Raised: The Senate and House Must Act.
May 10, 2013 (Washington, DC)- American Jewish World Service, Bread for the World, CARE, The Modernizing Assistance Network, Oxfam America and Save the Children released the following statement today...
View ArticleUSGLC Report Finds Consensus on U.S. Development Policy
Partisanship in Washington seems to be at an all-time (and ever escalating) high these days. But when it comes to international development, there is a strong consensus across the ideological spectrum...
View ArticleOn Development Policy, Congress Looks Functional
See below for a new op-ed from MFAN’s Co-Chairs: Rev. David Beckmann, Jim Kolbe, and George Ingram. This piece originally ran in Roll Call. *** Something peculiar has happened around President Barack...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: Poe, Rubio Bills Would Strengthen Foreign Assistance...
July 10, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe: MFAN applauds...
View ArticleNGO Community Shows Broad Support for Transparency & Accountability Bill
This week, a bicameral, bipartisan piece of legislation was introduced to strengthen transparency and evaluation of U.S. foreign assistance. The bill, the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability...
View ArticleForeign Aid Transparency and Accountability: It’s Something We Can All Agree On
Melissa Kaplan, advocacy manager for aid reform at InterAction, wrote about the recently introduced Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act in an op-ed in CQ. See an excerpt of the piece below....
View ArticleMFAN Statement: Sharp Differences in House and Senate Spending Highlight...
July 26, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe: We are greatly...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: Rubio-Cardin Foreign Aid Transparency Bill Moves Forward in...
November 14, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs George Ingram, Carolyn Miles, and Connie Veillette MFAN applauds...
View ArticleDevelopment Community Shows Broad Support for Bipartisan Aid Transparency Bill
This week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took an important step towards strengthening U.S. development programs by unanimously passing the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of...
View ArticleOpen the books on foreign aid
See below for excerpts from an op-ed by Albert Kan-Dapaah, co-founder and executive director of Financial Accountability & Transparency-Africa and former Ghanaian minister and parliamentarian. This...
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Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan Makes the Case for More Flexible Food Aid
See below for a guest post from George Ingram, senior fellow at Brookings and MFAN co-chair. Ingram writes about how current reform proposals to international food aid can increase flexibility in...
View ArticleSomething Rotten in the State of Denmark
See below for a guest post from MFAN Principal John Norris, Executive Director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative at the Center for American Progress. This piece originally...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: New Farm Bill Includes Key Reforms to International Food...
January 28, 2014 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) by Co-Chairs George Ingram, Carolyn Miles, and Connie Veillette With the...
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