Resource Type:

Report-Paper

Posted On: Dec 23, 2008

Posted By: Francesco Femia [3]

URL:

http://www.modernizingforeignassistance.org/documents/newdaynewway.pdf [4]

Description:

MFAN, a reform coalition composed of international development and foreign policy practitioners, policy advocates and experts, concerned citizens and private sector organizations, provides recommendations on core principles and priority actions for reforming foreign assistance. The report calls on the new Administration to:

• Elevate global development as a national interest priority in actions as well as in rhetoric
• Align foreign assistance policies, operations, budgets and statutory authorities
• Rebuild and rationalize organizational structures
• Commit sufficient and flexible resources with accountability for results
• Partner with others to produce results.
• Develop a national strategy for global development
• Reach a “grand bargain” between the Executive branch and Congress on management authorities and plan, design and enact a new Foreign Assistance Act
• Streamline the organizational structure and improve organizational capacity by creating a Cabinet-level Department for Global Development, by rebuilding human resource capacity and by strengthening monitoring and evaluation; and,
• Increase funding for and accountability of foreign assistance.