Connie Veillette

Connie Veillette

Connie Veillette is a senior fellow for global food security and aid effectiveness at The Lugar Center and co-chair of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.

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Opinion: What comes after strategic transitions matters. Here's why.

Opinion: What comes after strategic transitions matters. Here's why.

almost 8 years ago // Foreign aid

Legacy programs should be specific to a country, address development challenges, and retain buy-in from across the U.S. government, writes MFAN Co-Chair Connie Veillette.

Opinion: It's time to build a new US agency for global development

Opinion: It's time to build a new US agency for global development

over 8 years ago // The future of US aid

The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network envisions a new United States agency to take the reigns of development assistance efforts.

For better aid results, we need better aid data

For better aid results, we need better aid data

about 10 years ago // Aid Transparency

The U.S. Congress will consider a bipartisan, bicameral Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act Thursday. Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network co-chairs George Ingram, Carolyn Miles and Connie Veillette weigh in on why this legislation matters.

Advancing US foreign aid reform for better development results

Advancing US foreign aid reform for better development results

almost 11 years ago // In partnership with the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network

U.S. aid reform should focus on two powerful and mutually reinforcing pillars, write George Ingram, Carolyn Miles and Connie Veillette in a new campaign led by the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.

Root, root, root — for transparency

Root, root, root — for transparency

over 11 years ago // Aid transparency

When the 2014 Aid Transparency Index is published Wednesday, die-hard transparency fans will be checking to see if U.S. agencies delivered on their IATI commitments. A joint opinion by the three co-chairs of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.

Charting a way forward on US development policy

Charting a way forward on US development policy

almost 12 years ago // Contributors: George Ingram, Carolyn Miles and Connie Veillette

The next two years are a crucial window of opportunity for U.S. aid reform. In an exclusive opinion, the co-chairs of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network share their vision for a reform agenda to improve development policy and practice, and make U.S. assistance dollars work smarter beyond 2014.