MFAN partner organizations – including Oxfam America, ONE, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), and Bread for the World – are hard at work advocating for Senate passage of the Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act of 2009 (S.1524). The bill, which was introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and Ranking Minority Member Dick Lugar, represents a significant step towards reforming U.S. foreign assistance and making our efforts to alleviate poverty and hunger, fight disease, and promote economic growth in developing countries more efficient and effective. It would, among other things:
- Establish that it is U.S. policy to promote global development, good governance and the reduction of poverty and hunger;
- Restore planning, policy, evaluation and innovation capability to USAID, the U.S. agency responsible for fighting hunger and poverty around the world.
To find out more about what MFAN’s partner organizations are doing to advocate for passage of S.1524, check out the links below:
Oxfam’s Aid Effectiveness Campaign
ONE’s Upgrade Foreign Aid Campaign
ICRW’s Foreign Assistance Reform Campaign
Bread for the World’s Offering of Letters 2009
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