Sara Messer

Sara Messer

Sara Messer is ONE's policy manager for aid effectiveness, dealing with both global aid transparency and effectiveness, and U.S. foreign aid reform. Prior to ONE, Messer managed operations for the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, where she also served as project coordinator for the global economy and development program.

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A world free from… aid?

A world free from… aid?

about 14 years ago // Feature

At the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, discussions on the possibility of an aid-free future will take center stage. In this guest opinion, ONE’s Sara Messer says such a goal is ambitious but not impossible, and argues what it would take for the world to get there.