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Melissa Kaplan

Melissa Kaplan is a senior manager for policy and government affairs at Women Thrive Worldwide. She brings deep experience within the international development community and previously served as advocacy manager at InterAction, where she managed the InterAction CEO Task Force on Aid Reform and lobbied on issues including foreign assistance and appropriations. She previously held the position of deputy director of government relations at Citizens for Global Solutions

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Women empowerment
Women empowerment
Empowering women and girls through development: A to-do list for Gayle Smith
15 May 2015
Gayle Smith will have to take on a multitude of competing interests and varied crises as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. But to be successful in this new role, she should put women and girls' empowerment at the top of her priorities list. Here's what she should focus on first.
Contributor: Melissa Kaplan
Contributor: Melissa Kaplan
Local ownership: Who, what and how
15 Aug 2013
USAID is making considerable progress on its “going local” reform efforts, but there is still room for improvement. In a guest opinion for Devex, InterAction advocacy manager for aid effectiveness Melissa Kaplan discusses key issues the agency needs to hone in on to achieve its goals on country ownership.
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