During the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration released a policy on gender and women’s empowerment meant to guide the U.S. Agency for International Development in its spending and program development. But the controversial policy was attacked as vague, politicized, discriminatory, and for eliminating mention of LGBTQ people.
For the past two years the policy has been largely gathering dust, outside sources say.
But the agency run by Samantha Power now has a new draft policy to replace the version drawn up during the Trump era. And in many ways, it reverses what critics described as a politically motivated policy that is “anti gender” and a “dangerous setback” to gender equality efforts.