Kendra
@kendrawhite.bsky.social
Senior Director, Institutional Advancement @ the Center for Global Development. Views my own.
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📣Excited to share new @cgdev.org research w co-conspirators @clemencelanders.bsky.social & Rowan Rockafellow exploring an alternative funding path for the Global Fund in a shrinking aid landscape
Full disclosure, it's a bit wonky🤓 so hang on for the ride
Summary blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/weather...
Full disclosure, it's a bit wonky🤓 so hang on for the ride
Summary blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/weather...
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
📣Excited to share new @cgdev.org research w co-conspirators @clemencelanders.bsky.social & Rowan Rockafellow exploring an alternative funding path for the Global Fund in a shrinking aid landscape
Full disclosure, it's a bit wonky🤓 so hang on for the ride
Summary blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/weather...
Full disclosure, it's a bit wonky🤓 so hang on for the ride
Summary blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/weather...
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"This might be a moment of opportunity...to build a new modernized and more equal system. Redefine the rules and redefine who gets to write the rules."
@clemencelanders.bsky.social discusses how a new vision for global development cooperation can reshape the system:
https://go.cgdev.org/3Lk1OV7
@clemencelanders.bsky.social discusses how a new vision for global development cooperation can reshape the system:
https://go.cgdev.org/3Lk1OV7
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"This might be a moment of opportunity...to build a new modernized and more equal system. Redefine the rules and redefine who gets to write the rules."
@clemencelanders.bsky.social discusses how a new vision for global development cooperation can reshape the system:
https://go.cgdev.org/3Lk1OV7
@clemencelanders.bsky.social discusses how a new vision for global development cooperation can reshape the system:
https://go.cgdev.org/3Lk1OV7
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An idea first proposed by @CGDev in 2018 to protect tropical forests forever (literally forever) will become reality at #COP30.🌳
Brazil will launch the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, backed by a $1B contribution from President Lula:
https://go.cgdev.org/43ZQBzd
Brazil will launch the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, backed by a $1B contribution from President Lula:
https://go.cgdev.org/43ZQBzd
Birth Announcement: A Sovereign Wealth Fund to Protect Tropical Forests
Luckily, good ideas have long half-lives. An idea developed here at CGD in 2018 to protect tropical forests forever (literally forever) will be born officially at COP30 in Belém. At a side meeting dur...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
An idea first proposed by @CGDev in 2018 to protect tropical forests forever (literally forever) will become reality at #COP30.🌳
Brazil will launch the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, backed by a $1B contribution from President Lula:
https://go.cgdev.org/43ZQBzd
Brazil will launch the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, backed by a $1B contribution from President Lula:
https://go.cgdev.org/43ZQBzd
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418M children eat school meals every day—offering a chance to transform food systems.
Biniam Bedasso & and Mohamed Abdiweli Ahmed show how sourcing food from regenerative agriculture can nourish children and building climate resilience. Here's how it can be done:
https://bit.ly/4glsRdK
Biniam Bedasso & and Mohamed Abdiweli Ahmed show how sourcing food from regenerative agriculture can nourish children and building climate resilience. Here's how it can be done:
https://bit.ly/4glsRdK
Building the Bridge While Crossing It: The Case for Financing School Meals and Regenerative Agriculture
School meals feed 418 million children daily, making them a powerful lever to transform food systems. By financing procurement that supports regenerative agriculture, governments can nourish children ...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
418M children eat school meals every day—offering a chance to transform food systems.
Biniam Bedasso & and Mohamed Abdiweli Ahmed show how sourcing food from regenerative agriculture can nourish children and building climate resilience. Here's how it can be done:
https://bit.ly/4glsRdK
Biniam Bedasso & and Mohamed Abdiweli Ahmed show how sourcing food from regenerative agriculture can nourish children and building climate resilience. Here's how it can be done:
https://bit.ly/4glsRdK
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Reviewing interventions to prevent school violence against children w/ disabilities, @daveevansphd.bsky.social & @gsmarrelli.bsky.social find:
1️⃣ Most evidence is on peer violence
2️⃣ Children w/ disabilities face much higher risk
3️⃣ Few studies track impact for them
More:
https://bit.ly/3Jwxiq5
1️⃣ Most evidence is on peer violence
2️⃣ Children w/ disabilities face much higher risk
3️⃣ Few studies track impact for them
More:
https://bit.ly/3Jwxiq5
Three Lessons from a Review on School Violence Against Children with Disabilities
Violence against children in schools is all too common, and beyond being a violation of children’s basic rights, it adversely affects their learning and life outcomes. We still know too little about h...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reviewing interventions to prevent school violence against children w/ disabilities, @daveevansphd.bsky.social & @gsmarrelli.bsky.social find:
1️⃣ Most evidence is on peer violence
2️⃣ Children w/ disabilities face much higher risk
3️⃣ Few studies track impact for them
More:
https://bit.ly/3Jwxiq5
1️⃣ Most evidence is on peer violence
2️⃣ Children w/ disabilities face much higher risk
3️⃣ Few studies track impact for them
More:
https://bit.ly/3Jwxiq5
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Thread of some USAID projects (still) cancelled that were providing lifesaving support, from the Project Resource Optimization list. They could still be restarted, they could still save lives...
September 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thread of some USAID projects (still) cancelled that were providing lifesaving support, from the Project Resource Optimization list. They could still be restarted, they could still save lives...
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For WHO to function effectively, CGD experts argue it must focus on a set of three functions:
➡️ Global leadership
➡️ Global health security
➡️ Production of global public goods
More:
https://bit.ly/4oKMKin
➡️ Global leadership
➡️ Global health security
➡️ Production of global public goods
More:
https://bit.ly/4oKMKin
A Lean World Health Organization for the Global Good
In this brief--the first in the Tough Times, Tough Choices series that will target the major global health and development institutions and their funders--we propose a different approach: radically streamlining the WHO to fulfil its unique global functi...
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August 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For WHO to function effectively, CGD experts argue it must focus on a set of three functions:
➡️ Global leadership
➡️ Global health security
➡️ Production of global public goods
More:
https://bit.ly/4oKMKin
➡️ Global leadership
➡️ Global health security
➡️ Production of global public goods
More:
https://bit.ly/4oKMKin
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I'm doing more @cgdev.org podcast hosting. Listen & give me feedback. Who else would you like to hear me interview?
Here I ask Lord Jim O'Neill & Dr. Bansal about spurring innovation into a diagnostic for sepsis. Why sepsis diagnostic? Why incentives? How best to prompt innovation.
Here I ask Lord Jim O'Neill & Dr. Bansal about spurring innovation into a diagnostic for sepsis. Why sepsis diagnostic? Why incentives? How best to prompt innovation.
Neonatal sepsis kills hundreds of thousands of babies each year.
In a new @cgdev.org podcast, CGD working group members Lord Jim O’Neill & Dr. Akhil Bansal join @rglenner.bsky.social to discuss how an advanced market commitment could help tackle the crisis & more. ⬇️
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In a new @cgdev.org podcast, CGD working group members Lord Jim O’Neill & Dr. Akhil Bansal join @rglenner.bsky.social to discuss how an advanced market commitment could help tackle the crisis & more. ⬇️
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August 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm doing more @cgdev.org podcast hosting. Listen & give me feedback. Who else would you like to hear me interview?
Here I ask Lord Jim O'Neill & Dr. Bansal about spurring innovation into a diagnostic for sepsis. Why sepsis diagnostic? Why incentives? How best to prompt innovation.
Here I ask Lord Jim O'Neill & Dr. Bansal about spurring innovation into a diagnostic for sepsis. Why sepsis diagnostic? Why incentives? How best to prompt innovation.
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New research shows that during congressional hearings, Dr. Janet Yellen—then Chair of the US Fed. Reserve—was interrupted more, & more aggressively, than her male counterparts.
@eeshani.bsky.social links this to broader patterns of workplace bias women face:
www.cgdev.org/blog/its-not...
@eeshani.bsky.social links this to broader patterns of workplace bias women face:
www.cgdev.org/blog/its-not...
It’s Not You, It’s Them: Even the Fed Chair Gets Interrupted at Work
Women report significantly lower levels of wellbeing in the workplace than men. This is at least in part due to the greater burden of care responsibilities borne by women. But does the workplace exper...
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July 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New research shows that during congressional hearings, Dr. Janet Yellen—then Chair of the US Fed. Reserve—was interrupted more, & more aggressively, than her male counterparts.
@eeshani.bsky.social links this to broader patterns of workplace bias women face:
www.cgdev.org/blog/its-not...
@eeshani.bsky.social links this to broader patterns of workplace bias women face:
www.cgdev.org/blog/its-not...
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Where is lead poisoning coming from, and how can we track it better?
Insights from 24 presentations at CGD's First Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure, summarized by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social & Caroline Mallory:
www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we...
Insights from 24 presentations at CGD's First Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure, summarized by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social & Caroline Mallory:
www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we...
What We’re Learning about Lead
Last week CGD hosted the First Annual Research Conference on Global lead Exposure. Most health issues have their own dedicated research conference, but remarkably until now, not lead. We had a great t...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Where is lead poisoning coming from, and how can we track it better?
Insights from 24 presentations at CGD's First Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure, summarized by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social & Caroline Mallory:
www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we...
Insights from 24 presentations at CGD's First Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure, summarized by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social & Caroline Mallory:
www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we...
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Excited to see our @cgdev.org research featured in this excellent @nytimes.com article about the devastating effect of the US' remittance tax on Africa, especially coming after extensive aid cuts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...
Trump Targets Key Lifeline for Africa: Money Sent Home by Immigrants
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June 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Excited to see our @cgdev.org research featured in this excellent @nytimes.com article about the devastating effect of the US' remittance tax on Africa, especially coming after extensive aid cuts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...
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@nickkristof.bsky.social to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after Rubio denied deaths due to USAID grant cutoffs: "The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
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May 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
@nickkristof.bsky.social to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after Rubio denied deaths due to USAID grant cutoffs: "The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
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The World Bank has released their IDA21 plans, with the $2.4bn Window for Host Communities and Refugees now part of a broader regional window. In this new @cgdev.org blog, @thomasginn.bsky.social and I spell out the good, the bad, and where to go from here.
www.cgdev.org/blog/window-...
www.cgdev.org/blog/window-...
The Window for Host Communities and Refugees Survives, but What Does the Future Hold Under GROW?
Recently, the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) released their plans for IDA21, including for the Window for Host Communities and Refugees (WHR), now placed under a new umbrella...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The World Bank has released their IDA21 plans, with the $2.4bn Window for Host Communities and Refugees now part of a broader regional window. In this new @cgdev.org blog, @thomasginn.bsky.social and I spell out the good, the bad, and where to go from here.
www.cgdev.org/blog/window-...
www.cgdev.org/blog/window-...
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Globally, women’s land rights remain informal, leaving widows at high risk of losing access to their homes.
In a new working paper, @markusgold.bsky.social & fellow experts study if large-scale land formalization programs can improve widows’ tenure security ⬇️
bit.ly/43xQR7y
In a new working paper, @markusgold.bsky.social & fellow experts study if large-scale land formalization programs can improve widows’ tenure security ⬇️
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Certified to Stay? Long-Run Experimental Evidence on Land Formalization and Widows’ Tenure Security in Benin
In many parts of the world, women’s land rights remain informal, leaving widows—especially those without a male heir—at high risk of losing access to their land and homes when their husbands die. We…
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May 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Globally, women’s land rights remain informal, leaving widows at high risk of losing access to their homes.
In a new working paper, @markusgold.bsky.social & fellow experts study if large-scale land formalization programs can improve widows’ tenure security ⬇️
bit.ly/43xQR7y
In a new working paper, @markusgold.bsky.social & fellow experts study if large-scale land formalization programs can improve widows’ tenure security ⬇️
bit.ly/43xQR7y
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In the wake of the abrupt dismantling of USAID, there are taxpayer funded vaccines, food, and bednets sitting in warehouses, going bad. My colleagues Robert Rosenbaum, Caitlin Tulloch, and Cindy Huang blog about an initiative trying to make sure less people die: www.cgdev.org/blog/buildin...
Building the Future of Aid—Starting Now: Strategic Lessons from a Crisis
Despite what administration officials have claimed about preserving life-saving work, many of the programs delivering interventions known to save the most lives per dollar spent have not received the ...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In the wake of the abrupt dismantling of USAID, there are taxpayer funded vaccines, food, and bednets sitting in warehouses, going bad. My colleagues Robert Rosenbaum, Caitlin Tulloch, and Cindy Huang blog about an initiative trying to make sure less people die: www.cgdev.org/blog/buildin...
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My @cgdev.org colleagues @ecollinson.bsky.social + @justinrhurley.bsky.social unpack what the 2026 budget request and what it means for US foreign assistance.
www.cgdev.org/blog/redefin...
www.cgdev.org/blog/redefin...
Redefining America’s Interests? Trump's FY2026 Budget Proposes Sweeping Cuts to US Foreign Aid
The Trump administration unveiled an overview of its FY2026 budget request on Friday. While short on details, the document offers a grim forecast for US development and humanitarian spending. In seeki...
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May 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My @cgdev.org colleagues @ecollinson.bsky.social + @justinrhurley.bsky.social unpack what the 2026 budget request and what it means for US foreign assistance.
www.cgdev.org/blog/redefin...
www.cgdev.org/blog/redefin...
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Last week, employees of the Millennium Challenge Corporation were told the agency would be effectively shuttered.
Given the MCC's concentrated role in a few countries, charlesjkenny.bsky.social lays out the impact on small, aid-dependent economies:
Given the MCC's concentrated role in a few countries, charlesjkenny.bsky.social lays out the impact on small, aid-dependent economies:
The Impact of Shuttering the Millennium Challenge Corporation
On April 22nd, MCC staff were told the agency would be effectively shuttered, with most work immediately suspended. The agency’s model means its spending is concentrated in a few countries. For a…
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April 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Last week, employees of the Millennium Challenge Corporation were told the agency would be effectively shuttered.
Given the MCC's concentrated role in a few countries, charlesjkenny.bsky.social lays out the impact on small, aid-dependent economies:
Given the MCC's concentrated role in a few countries, charlesjkenny.bsky.social lays out the impact on small, aid-dependent economies:
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Since its creation in 2000, Gavi has helped vaccinate over 1bn children globally.
This #WorldImmunizationWeek, we're highlighting Gavi's life-saving impact & why US plans to cut funding to the agency are shortsighted.
From @jmadankeller.bsky.social & @charlesjkenny.bsky.social:
bit.ly/4cqXdKh
This #WorldImmunizationWeek, we're highlighting Gavi's life-saving impact & why US plans to cut funding to the agency are shortsighted.
From @jmadankeller.bsky.social & @charlesjkenny.bsky.social:
bit.ly/4cqXdKh
Why the Trump Administration's Plan to Cut Funding to Gavi Is Shortsighted
In a list of thousands of terminated USAID awards that was sent to Congress this week is a devastating cut suggesting the Trump administration might be planning to end funding to Gavi, the global init...
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April 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Since its creation in 2000, Gavi has helped vaccinate over 1bn children globally.
This #WorldImmunizationWeek, we're highlighting Gavi's life-saving impact & why US plans to cut funding to the agency are shortsighted.
From @jmadankeller.bsky.social & @charlesjkenny.bsky.social:
bit.ly/4cqXdKh
This #WorldImmunizationWeek, we're highlighting Gavi's life-saving impact & why US plans to cut funding to the agency are shortsighted.
From @jmadankeller.bsky.social & @charlesjkenny.bsky.social:
bit.ly/4cqXdKh
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@hanshengchia.bsky.social & fellow experts introduce a new series to help implementers, policymakers & funders unpack types of evaluations for “AI for Good.”🌐
Their 4-level framework offers a guide to addressing the core concerns of AI developers & funders:
Their 4-level framework offers a guide to addressing the core concerns of AI developers & funders:
An AI Evaluation Framework for the Development Sector
There's a common concern that AI systems are black boxes prone to unexpected behavior, from Google recommending users eat rocks to Sora’s AI videos depicting gymnasts sprouting extra limbs. While…
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April 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@hanshengchia.bsky.social & fellow experts introduce a new series to help implementers, policymakers & funders unpack types of evaluations for “AI for Good.”🌐
Their 4-level framework offers a guide to addressing the core concerns of AI developers & funders:
Their 4-level framework offers a guide to addressing the core concerns of AI developers & funders:
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The driver’s seat of this bus is empty.
Travel and tourism = largest services export for the US.
22% of services exports, 7% of total exports.
Not how you reduce a trade deficit...
22% of services exports, 7% of total exports.
Not how you reduce a trade deficit...
NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
April 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The driver’s seat of this bus is empty.
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We're all fundraisers!
February 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
We're all fundraisers!
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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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Don't give up on foreign aid just yet - despite huge cuts from many donors there's still a lot of money on the table and still broad public support. We just need to make a better case for aid effectiveness
www.cgdev.org/blog/dont-gi...
www.cgdev.org/blog/dont-gi...
Don’t Give Up On Aid Just Yet
Headlines on aid and global development are grim right now. The decimation of USAID has been swiftly followed by major cuts announced in the UK, and smaller cuts planned from a raft of European donors...
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March 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Don't give up on foreign aid just yet - despite huge cuts from many donors there's still a lot of money on the table and still broad public support. We just need to make a better case for aid effectiveness
www.cgdev.org/blog/dont-gi...
www.cgdev.org/blog/dont-gi...
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Huge public service from @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @justsand.bsky.social here 👇
A new blog with Justin Sadefur on the USAID cuts. Based on a leaked list of cancelled contracts and data from foreignassistancedotgov we try to calculate how deep the cuts by country and sector.
www.cgdev.org/blog/usaid-c...
www.cgdev.org/blog/usaid-c...
The USAID Cuts: Little Sign of Mercy for “Life-Saving” Health Programs
The bottom line: we estimate the cancelled awards represent somewhere over 34 percent of USAID programming. And notably, “life-saving” program areas like maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, ...
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March 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Huge public service from @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @justsand.bsky.social here 👇
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During his speech to the joint session of Congress, President Trump listed a number of foreign assistance projects he thought demonstrated "waste.”
@charlesjkenny.bsky.social looks into the examples & provides context on what the projects were designed to achieve ⬇
@charlesjkenny.bsky.social looks into the examples & provides context on what the projects were designed to achieve ⬇
A Brief Look at President Trump’s List of “Appalling” Aid Projects
During his speech to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, President Trump listed a number of foreign assistance projects he thought demonstrated “appalling waste.” Below is his list of examples…
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March 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
During his speech to the joint session of Congress, President Trump listed a number of foreign assistance projects he thought demonstrated "waste.”
@charlesjkenny.bsky.social looks into the examples & provides context on what the projects were designed to achieve ⬇
@charlesjkenny.bsky.social looks into the examples & provides context on what the projects were designed to achieve ⬇