Written by our U.S. team members, Sally Paxton and Catalina Reyes On February 6 Brookings and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) hosted an event to present the MCC Principles into Practice Report. The event was also an opportunity to hear from leading donors on the implementation of their aid transparency commitments and more specifically […]
The first drafting session of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) was held in New York on the week of the 26th January, in spite of the agenda being re-scheduled to avoid a potentially dangerous blizzard (that thankfully never happened). We came back to the office with a little bit more understanding […]
This is a guest blog written by the European Union Delegation to Myanmar. All photos credited to Leigh Mitchell. Donors and aid have flooded into Myanmar since the Government began its democratic transition and unprecedented social and economic reform programme in 2011. Myanmar officials quickly realised that it would be difficult to manage and guide this assistance without the […]
Years ago, I spent a summer working in the research department of an investment bank. My job was to analyse company data and spot long-term trends in equities markets. As finance professionals know, the data can be overwhelming: numbers blinking on Bloomberg terminals, scrolling across TV screens and clogging up your email in endless reports. […]
This is a guest post by Jonna Jeurlink, Senior Manager, Public Policy at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is a public-private partnership that was set up in the year 2000 with a mission to ensure that children in the lowest income countries have access to life saving vaccines. Since its creation, […]
This blog was written by MFAN Co-Chairs George Ingram, Carolyn Miles, and Connie Veillette. It was originally published on the MFAN blog here. On Tuesday, President Obama delivered his next-to-last State of the Union address in which he laid out an ambitious, and largely domestic, agenda for his last two years of office. While the […]
