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October 26, 2024 | US, WASH & Sanitation, Global Health | Share this update
On October 26, 2024, USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced that USAID will provide an additional US$572 million to help displaced people in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria.
The assistance will provide emergency assistance of food, water, shelter, and health car through USAID partners.
The region has been hit with multiple crises, including violence, flooding, and starving children. Other factors, including costs of transporting aid, blockades by extremists, the prohibition of cash transfers, and violence against citizens hinder the provision of humanitarian assistance.
Power called on all donors to contribute assistance and work towards a safe environment so that assistance can be provided.
With this contribution, the US has now provided US$1.2 billion in FY2025.
October 23, 2024 | US, Agriculture, Global Health | Share this update
On October 23, 2024, USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced a series of investments for Cambodia during an official visit to Cambodia.
The assistance includes US$29 million through the US Feed the Future program to strengthen agricultural programs, including climate-smart technologies, new efforts to help with the conservation of biodiversity of the lower Mekong River basin, support to civil society and the media, and a grant from the US Department of Labor to help disabled and vulnerable workers.
In a separate appearance, Power announced US$17 million in health assistance. The resources include a 5-year program to fight tuberculosis, one of USAID's largest ever direct awards to a Cambodian organization. The US also committed US$1 million to end childhood lead poisoning and US$17 for a range of demining activities.
October 11, 2024 | UK, France, Japan, Canada, US, Germany, Italy, EUI, Nutritious Food Systems, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Family Planning, WASH & Sanitation, Global Health, Global Health R&D | Share this update
On October 10 and 11, 2024, the G7's Health Ministerial Meeting took place in Ancona, Italy. The discussion focused on three overarching priorities: Global Health Architecture and Pandemic Preparedness and Response, healthy and active aging, and the One Health Approach.
The G7 Health Ministers Communiqué, released at the end of the meeting, highlights the G7's commitment to supporting SDG #3 through universal health coverage, primary health care, and sexual and reproductive health. This also includes maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health, strengthening the global health architecture by investing in PPR, promoting regional manufacturing of health products, and equitable access to quality health services.
The communiqué emphasized the health-related impacts of conflicts with a reference to the crises in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, and Sudan. Furthermore, in the communiqué, the G7 Ministries committed to continue to support Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Global Fund, whose replenishment processes will occur in the upcoming months.
The Civil 7 engagement group, a platform through which civil society can engage with the G7, reacted with a communiqué in which they expressed an appreciation for the re-commitment to ending HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria through robust support for the Global Fund in its replenishment next year. This support is crucial to ending the three epidemics as agreed upon in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Finally, the G7 Health Ministers also adopted a policy brief on the opportunities presented by AI for both healthcare providers and patients.
October 10, 2024 | US | Share this update
On October 10, 2024, USAID Deputy Administrator Isabelle Coleman delivered an address highlighting two new policies to strengthen US foreign assistance implemented by the agency.
The first was a position paper on cost-effectiveness, which seeks to get the maximum impact out of every dollar spent by USAID. This strategy includes the use and generation of cost-effectiveness evidence.
The second policy announcement concerned cash transfers and set forth principles and best practices for how and when to leverage direct money transfers to individuals, households, and microenterprises.
Coleman made the comments at an event hosted by the Center for Global Development. These policy changes result from years of study, evaluation, and evidence building.
October 4, 2024 | US, WASH & Sanitation, Global Health | Share this update
On October 4, 2024, the US concluded a series of announcements to pledge US$1.5 billion in humanitarian assistance to crisis areas which will provide food assistance, WASH, healthcare, nutrition, shelter, and psychosocial services.
The assistance includes:
The resources will come from USAID and the US State Department.
October 2, 2024 | US, WASH & Sanitation, Global Health, Gender Equality | Share this update
On October 2, 2024, USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced additional humanitarian assistance to vulnerable Ukrainian populations and refugees in the surrounding region during a visit to Ukraine.
The resources will be provided by both USAID and the US State Department and will help populations prepare both for winter as well as providing food, shelter, health, WASH, and protection assistance, including GBV prevention and support. UN partners and NGOs will also receive some of the resources to help provide life-saving assistance.
With this announcement, the total US humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and the region has been US$3.8 billion since February of 2022.
September 25, 2024 | US, Global Health | Share this update
On September 25, 2024, the First Lady Jill Biden helped launch a new initiative to create a lead-free future. In a partnership between USAID and UNICEF, Biden announced a US$150 million effort, the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future.
Lead exposure affects 1 in 3 children globally and can cause brain damage in children, which can cause a range of effects, including developmental delays, learning issues, and lower IQs. Saying that lead poisoning is a problem that can be solved, Biden stressed that everyday exposure is creating irreversible damage to children.
The partnership has mobilized US$150 million, which is ten times the current global investment, from a range of public and private sources. The resources will be used for better testing to inform new regulations against lead-based products and to push for lead-free alternatives and operations.
September 25, 2024 | US | Share this update
On September 25, 2024, the US Congress passed a three-month continuing resolution that averted a government shutdown.
The FY2024 runs until September 30, 2024, and most appropriations bills for FY2025, including those that fund US foreign assistance, have not yet passed through Congress.
The continuing resolution will run until December 20, 2024. The Republican House leadership had earlier pressed for a six-month extension, which was not approved. The three-month resolution was then passed.
Funding levels for US foreign assistance remain at FY2024 levels.
September 23, 2024 | US, Italy | Share this update
On September 23, 2024, on the margins of the UNGA, it was announced that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will receive the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award.
The Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards is the premier forum for world leaders, diplomats, the C-Suite, and the philanthropic, social, and entertainment communities to celebrate the highest expression of global citizenship. Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who received the award in 2015, is the only Italian prime minister to have recently received the award.
Meloni will be introduced by Chief Engineer at SpaceX and CEO of Tesla Elon Musk.
September 19, 2024 | US, Agriculture, Climate | Share this update
On September 19, 2024, the US pledged an additional US$80 million in funding to Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia as part of the Feed The Future program which supports agricultural growth and resilient food systems using the Feed the Future Accelerator.
This is in response to the needs created by Russia's invasion of Ukraine as well as the impact of recent droughts and macroeconomic shocks.
The Accelerator will support the growth of a regional breadbasket by combining the region's fertile land, its diverse farming systems, and reform-minded governments. This aims to stimulate economic growth and simultaneously improve the resilience of food producers.
US$ amounts are cited directly from sources; in the absence of an official conversion, they are calculated using the previous week's average of the US Federal Reserve's daily exchange rates.
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