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USAID Commits $8.8 Million For Research to Advance Diverse, Locally Led Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is proud to announce six new research and development awards, co-created by USAID’s Local, Faith, and Transformative Partnerships (LFT) Hub with a diverse range of local and traditionally underutilized partners, to support USAID’s commitment to locally led development. 

Interview: Administrator Samantha Power on Pod Save The World

I will say right off the bat that the Congress put the United States in an incredible position to lead in the response – the humanitarian response – because with the Ukraine supplementals that passed earlier this year, they actually gave us flexibility to provide humanitarian assistance also to those crises that were indirectly affected by Putin and his gratuitous and horrific invasion of Ukraine.

Administrator Samantha Power’s Meeting With International Rescue Committee President And CEO David Miliband

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Jessica Jennings:

Administrator Samantha Power at the World Food Prize Foundation's Annual Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue

There are many culprits behind today’s food crisis, you know them well. The COVID-19 pandemic grinding economies to a halt, splintered supply chains, causing huge spikes in inflation, everywhere it seems. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, holding hostage global supplies of food, fertilizer, and fuel, denying food to the world’s poorest communities – and that’s one of the many conflicts actually that is contributing to hunger around the globe.

Intensifying Military Operations And Escalating Risk For Widespread Atrocities In Northern Ethiopia

I am alarmed by the escalating risk for widespread atrocities and violence against civilians in Northern Ethiopia, as well as recent attacks by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) in the city of Shire.

World Food Day

This World Food Day, the world faces a global food security crisis of historic proportions.

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Balanced Diets, Healthier Children

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Misra Mohamed and Hassam Ahmed have been married for four years and have been blessed with two children--Hakima, their four-year-old daughter, and baby boy Zakir, who is just six months old. Like every mother, Misra wants nothing more in life than to help her children grow up to be strong and healthy so they are able to fulfill their dreams; and like every mother, she receives a lot of information on how to raise healthy children, whether it is neighborly advice from other mothers in the community, or from family members.

Hand Pumps Bring Clean Water to Ethiopia

Community Members Collect Water

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August 2016—Access to safe drinking water is critical to a community’s health and livelihood.

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