Michael Igoe @AlterIgoe
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Devex Pro Insider: The messy final days of USAID
about 15 hours ago // Devex Pro Insider
Shutting down the world’s largest bilateral aid agency has gone from daunting to dysfunctional.
Inside the USAID closeout mess
1 day ago // The Trump Effect
Multiple former USAID officials involved in the closeout process told Devex that shutting down the world's largest bilateral aid agency is a lot easier said than done — particularly when the people in charge don't trust you.
Gates-Epstein ties expose philanthropy’s ‘hypocrisy,’ experts say
8 days ago // Transparency and Accountability
Is the scandal embroiling Bill Gates symptomatic of larger moral dilemmas in billionaire philanthropy?
Forced into retirement, ex-USAID staffers face long pension delays
10 days ago // The Trump Effect
Some are struggling to pay their bills as they await answers amid the bureaucracy of USAID's dismantling.
Exclusive: US State Department proposes humanitarian overhaul
15 days ago // The Future of US Aid
The Trump administration is planning a major overhaul of the State Department's international disaster response system, proposing a new Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response to separate international relief from politically charged migration programs.
Devex Pro Insider: USAID's terminators, Hungary Helps, and a post-DOGE Peace Corps
18 days ago // Devex Pro Insider
Some USAID employees tasked with shutting down the agency to be kept on until September. Plus, the Peace Corps survived DOGE, but what's next for the agency?
Trump hasn't killed the Peace Corps. Can he save it?
20 days ago // The Trump Effect
Having weathered the storm of DOGE, the 65-year-old bastion of American soft power faces what could be an even more daunting challenge: adapting to the modern world.
Conservative push to defund US democracy org falls flat — for now
about 1 month ago // The Trump Effect
The National Endowment for Democracy survived back-to-back defunding efforts by conservative lawmakers to start the year. It still faces an uphill battle to take back the narrative.
USAID bars its own experts from agency closeout jobs
about 1 month ago // The Trump Effect
“The investment in training new contract staff ensures that the final closeout of taxpayer-funded obligations is handled by a team with no prior experience in the matters being settled,” reads an internal memo obtained by Devex.
Devex Pro Insider: Congress has (finally) entered the foreign aid chat
about 1 month ago // Devex Pro Insider
It has been one year since a global stop-work order brought U.S. foreign aid to a standstill — and set off a cascade of unforeseeable events that upended global development.