Resource Type:

Report-Paper

Posted On: Nov 24, 2008

Posted By: Heather Hamilton

URL:

http://interaction.org/transition

Description:

InterAction's goal for this book is to present their community’s best thinking and wealth of experience on the issues they expect the Obama administration will face during its first six months and the 111th Congress. This briefing book identifies key areas and sectors in need of immediate attention and lays out suggested actions. The book captures the lessons learned from InterAction members’ decades of on-the-ground experience, which guides InterAction’s work. The briefing book is presented in three distinct sections: issues such as climate change, funding trends, and humanitarian priorities. Each issue is outlined in a succinct one-pager and several sections have additional longer, in-depth background papers.

InterAction is the largest coalition of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable people.

INDIVIDUAL BRIEFING BOOK SECTIONS

* Section 1: INTRODUCTION
- Letter from Sam Worthington, President & CEO, InterAction
- InterAction Member List
- InterAction Funding Recommendations for FY2010 Poverty-focused Development & Humanitarian Accounts

* Section 2: CLIMATE CHANGE
- Policy Brief: Climate Change & Sustainable Development
- Table of Contributors
- Table of InterAction Climate Change Working Group

* Section 3: GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
- Policy Brief: Global Food Crisis
- Table of Contributors
- Table of InterAction Food Crisis Working Group

* Section 4: AGRICULTURE
- Policy Brief: Agricultural Development for Reducing Hunger & Rural Poverty
- Policy Paper: Ending Hunger: The Role of Agriculture
- Table of Contributors
- Table of InterAction Agriculture Policy Working Group

* Section 5: HEALTH
- Policy Brief: Sustainable Global Health & Development
- Table of Contributors
- Table of InterAction Health in Relief and Development Working Group

* Section 6: GENDER
- Policy Brief: Gender in Development & Humanitarian Relief
- Policy Paper: Value Added: Women and U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century
- Table of Contributors
- Table of InterAction Gender and Aid Reform Task Force

* Section 7: U.S. GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FUNDING TRENDS
- Policy Paper: U.S. Government Development Assistance Funding Trends
- Table of InterAction Public Policy Working Group

* Section 8: SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR HUMANITARIAN ACCOUNTS
- Policy Brief: Over-Reliance on Supplemental Funding for Humanitarian Accounts

* Section 9: TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY
- Policy Brief: Transformational Diplomacy: The “F Process”

* Section 10: MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION
- Policy Brief: Millennium Challenge Corporation

* Section 11: MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
- Policy Brief: Millennium Development Goals: A Framework for U.S. Development Assistance

* Section 12: NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
- Policy Brief: A Call for a Comprehensive National Development Strategy

* Section 13: U.S. GOVERNMENT REGULATORY CONSTRAINTS ON NGO SPACE
- Policy Brief: Regulatory Constraints on NGO Space

* Section 14: NGO AND MILITARY RELATIONS
- Policy Brief: The U.S. Military’s Expanding Role in Foreign Assistance
- Policy Brief: Peacekeeping

* Section 15: HUMANITARIAN PRIORITIES
- Policy Brief: Humanitarian Funding Priorities
- Policy Brief: Afghanistan
- Policy Brief: Burma
- Policy Brief: Chad
- Policy Brief: Democratic Republic of Congo
- Policy Brief: Ethiopia
- Policy Brief: Iraq
- Policy Brief: Somalia
- Policy Brief: Sri Lanka
- Policy Brief: Sudan
- Policy Brief: Uganda
- Policy Brief: West Bank/Gaza
- Policy Brief: Disaster Risk Reduction