George Ingram, Co-Chairman of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network today writes for the Huffington Post, calling for U.S. President Obama to lead on aid reform in his article ‘Aid Reform Within Reach: Time for the President to Lead’.
Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, wrote on 28th June that IT improvement was needed to increase spending efficiency and service quality in government.
Bill Clinton and Jean-Max Bellerive give an account of Haiti’s reconstruction to date in the Foreign Policy magazine.
Rajiv Shah, director of the U.S. government’s Agency for International Development, USAID, once more promised major reform of the aid agency in a speech at the National Press Club last Friday, 18th June.
Earlier this month, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry urged Ambassador Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, to make U.S. objectives, plans and disbursements of aid to Pakistan more transparent.
