Posted by Kul Gautam
Not sure how authoritative & final this listing is, but the proposed cuts are massive.
Quite a few prominent US universities suffer massive cuts.
Even the Peace Corps, GAVI, PAHO, WHO, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNICEF, etc. are not spared.
Kul
Click here for the full list of 'terminated funds'.
Not sure how authoritative & final this listing is, but the proposed cuts are massive.
Quite a few prominent US universities suffer massive cuts.
Even the Peace Corps, GAVI, PAHO, WHO, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNICEF, etc. are not spared.
Kul
Click here for the full list of 'terminated funds'.
Editor's Note: The chart shows a 32% cut in US funds obligated for UNICEF programmes, plus a 100% cut of funds for a small UNICEF project in Mali. For WHO the chart indicates a 99% cut in funding.
Click here for the USAID announcement of the contract terminations.
Notable 100% Estimated Funding terminations seem to include:
FAO
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
IFC - International Finance Corporation
Organización de los Estados Americanos
Pan American Health Organization
Peace Corps
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNAIDS
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
World Economic Forum
Click here for the USAID announcement of the contract terminations.
Notable 100% Estimated Funding terminations seem to include:
FAO
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
IFC - International Finance Corporation
Organización de los Estados Americanos
Pan American Health Organization
Peace Corps
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNAIDS
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
World Economic Forum
Thank you so much, Kulji, for this insight.
ReplyDeleteThis is ruthless policy making, devastating and unspeakably cruel for humanitarian assistance: the 120 million refugees https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics; people dependent of USAID for food grants or medication; for the UN agencies devoted to international norms and standard setting; and for progressive academics; for all museums and other public spaces.
What do friends in the US hear of pushback from Congress, can USAID just be extinguished by executive order?
As regards development cooperation projects, views are mixed. Progressives in the global South have an alternative take, see Jayathi Ghosh here https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/jayati-ghosh-usaid-trump-southasia.
Perhaps we can support the UN tax convention so that funds stay in the countries and governments can finance social development out of their own. https://www.icrict.com/non-classe/its-time-to-tax-power-icricts-message-at-the-vatican/
And we can promote the proposed UN treaty on business and human rights so that transnational corporations would abide by human rights, ILO labour standards, climate and biodiversity rules. https://www.wecf.org/ecofeminist-perspectives-towards-a-un-treaty-on-business-and-human-rights/
That would be alternatives to "aid" - for systemic social, economic, climate and gender justice.
Stay safe, all. Best, Gabriele
On the UN tax convention and funds staying in the countries, if the money flight from Africa had not been there, Africa would have been much richer and less in need of aid.
ReplyDeleteThe elite in Africa sent money out of their countries, and taxpayers in the West replaced it. Did we ever flag that?
DeleteWe should have such discussions more often. Responsible investments (possibly subsidized by well-meaning governments in industrialized countries), good tax systems, and accountable governance will go a long way towards generating economic growth and reducing aid dependency.
ReplyDeleteTo "have such discussions more often" would call for an understanding of the world, geopolitics, power structures, local politics and economics.
DeleteWith aid being cut by some countries in the West, we are scrambling to justify it. Perhaps we should have flagged decades ago that Africa was falling further behind and a different approach was called for. But we did not; we drove our priorities, and the Africans were not asked what theirs were.
ReplyDeleteWe could have been more sensitive to both the donors and the intended beneficiaries and not have spent most of their money on ourselves. We should have hired the best staff our generous pay and benefit package could have attracted and deployed them to the field rather than to HQs and ROs. The corrupt and other criminals in the organisation should have been dealt with by the police and the prosecutors rather than being paid off to leave.
Most of the problems in the aid industry are self-inflicted. We should own up to our failiours and propose a new direction that could help Africa catch up. Either we do it ourselves, or it is done for us, or we fade away.
A successful child survival program not combined with birth control and interventions to grow the economy increases poverty.
ReplyDeleteThat is to state the obvious
DeleteYes, but did we understand that?
DeleteWe did, but who would question the vision of the leadership? Birth control was controversial, and economic growth was beyond our mandate.
ReplyDelete