George Ingram is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; a board member of MFAN and USGLC and chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund; with a career in development spanning U.S. Congress, USAID, and civil society.
The three most significant objectives of consolidation at USAID are to align resources, promote a culture of learning, and project a unified voice. But each objective has serious hurdles to overcome.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A new OECD-DAC report includes recommendations on creating a 21st century aid agency. The Obama administration and Congress should heed the advice, Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network Co-chair George Ingram writes in a Devex op-ed.
