This has been a turbulent year in the global development sector, but Gargee Ghosh, the Gates Foundation’s president of global policy and advocacy, still sees a way forward.
“It feels like we have had so many setbacks on the financing front and on the debt front in Africa, and yet, we all, I, certainly feel the job is still to make progress, even if it isn't going to be through exactly the same structures that we've been working in over the past 25 years,” she said at the Devex Impact House event during the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week.
While there may be skepticism about aid budgets, people in France, the United States, India, or Senegal care about saving and improving lives, she said, adding that maybe a new “coalition around saving lives” is the path forward.