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MFAN Releases Transition Recommendations for Obama White House
In a letter announcing MFAN’s recommendations for President-elect Obama’s transition team, MFAN gathered support for foreign assistance modernization from some of the country’s leading authorities on global development and foreign policy, including three former USAID Administrators, other former senior government officials and executives from the world’s most influential academic and research institutions, humanitarian aid groups and advocacy organizations.
MFAN's transition recommendations focused on immediate steps the Obama White House can take on modernizing foreign assistance, and included the following excerpt: “Now more than ever, we must press forward with critical investments in America’s capabilities to fight poverty and create economic opportunities, and we must make these investments – which will need to increase over time – more efficient and effective. There is now broad bipartisan consensus that efforts to elevate development and modernize foreign assistance will be one of the best investments we can make over the long term to restore global stability, security and prosperity.” - Defense Secretary Gates Headlines US Institute of Peace’s Inaugural Acheson Lecture • October 27, 2008
- Dean Acheson Lecture Transcript • October 15, 2008
“We must be prepared to change old ways of doing business and create new institutions—both nationally and internationally—to deal with the long-term challenges we face abroad, and our own national security toolbox must be equipped with more than just hammers,” Gates said. “The security of the American people will depend increasingly on our ability to head off the next insurgency or arrest the collapse of another failing state.” To read Secretary Gates’ full remarks, click here.
