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I want to be very clear, I did not just receive an award. Let me just get that on the record. The amazing public servants of USAID got the award

Shifting to a model of locally-led development means ceding power over decisionmaking to those who know their problems best.

Well, first let me say how heartening it is to see so little skepticism about whether this cause is worth it. I mean, I do think there aren’t that many issues that people agree upon up on Capitol Hill. I had a long briefing today with a bipartisan group of Senators who were very much immersed in the details of where food assistance is going, which non-governmental organizations we should be funding, frustration that it wasn’t moving more quickly, a frustration that I share. This is really galvanizing a degree of unity for now up on Capitol Hill, that’s heartening and that I think is reflected in communities around America.

On April 19, Administrator Samantha Power was joined by President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu, United States Ambassador to Moldova Kent Logsdon, and USAID/Moldova Mission Director Scott Hocklander to meet with members of the Moldovan American community.

After mounting a double-digit rebound in GDP growth last year which led to significant cuts in poverty, the loss of remittances from Russia and Ukraine, along with shuttered trade routes and export markets for Moldova's goods, is causing real economic pain for the country. Food and energy prices are increasing as they are everywhere, with the cost of gas jumping more than four-and-a-half times.

We've been working with the Ukrainians to help document the atrocities underway, which started on day one, when they began hitting residential areas and, you know, hospitals and the like.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will contribute an additional $18 million to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the major global fund for education in emergencies.

Today, Administrator Power visited the Ukraine-Moldova border in Palanca, first stopping at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) blue dot refugee reception area and then traveling to the border crossing.

When the Moldovan people brought President Sandu into office with a strong, overwhelming mandate for building a more democratic and prosperous country, it was a demonstration of the Moldovan people's commitment to that shared belief.