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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.

Latest Articles

Foreign aid
Foreign aid
Opinion: What comes after strategic transitions matters. Here's why.
24 Apr 2018
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.
The future of US aid
The future of US aid
Opinion: It's time to build a new US agency for global development
27 Jul 2017
The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network envisions a new United States agency to take the reigns of development assistance efforts.
Aid Transparency
Aid Transparency
For better aid results, we need better aid data
5 Nov 2015
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.
In partnership with the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network
In partnership with the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network
Advancing US foreign aid reform for better development results
18 Mar 2015
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.
Aid transparency
Aid transparency
Root, root, root — for transparency
8 Oct 2014
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.
Contributors: George Ingram, Carolyn Miles and Connie Veillette
Contributors: George Ingram, Carolyn Miles and Connie Veillette
Charting a way forward on US development policy
16 Apr 2014
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.
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