America has just come through a grueling, divisive election. While President-elect Trump has articulated views on various domestic and foreign policy issues, his position on development and foreign assistance is largely unknown. Three facts should provide useful guidance for new policymakers: (1) Foreign assistance is an essential mechanism for promoting U.S. national security interests, (2) the past two administrations have successfully created a broad bipartisan coalition on development by building on their predecessor’s initiatives, and (3) there are specific ready-to-take actions to produce even stronger results from those initiatives. First, on promoting U.S. interests, the 2016 Republi
This guest blog was written by Rosemonde APATA, President of MAFUBO Côte d’Ivoire -- a non-profit which works to ensure Ivorian women are financially independent, safe from violence and have access to decent housing, healthcare and education. Every day thousands of women die during or shortly after childbirth. Regrettably, too many families in my country, Côte d’Ivoire, suffer from this painful experience; for every 100,000 live births there are 614 deaths during childbirth or within two months of delivery. The inconvenient truth is that the majority of these deaths are preventable. One of the ways in which my organization, MAFUBO, is trying to resolve this is by improving access to quality
