This Fall, Unlock Aid is hosting a series of discussions on how our public institutions must evolve to achieve the SDGs. Learn more and get involved here.
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We're driving legislation to build a more abundant U.S. approach to global development by decentralizing decision-making and transferring resources to local and proximate communities, investing in sustainable economic growth, and better leveraging innovation to solve the hardest problems of our time.
We’re holding the Biden-Harris Administration accountable to the commitments it’s made to change business as usual, especially in the context of U.S. global spending. The time to announce policy changes is over. Now is when we need to see major, tangible results. We’ll be running Unlock Aid as if we may not be here in 2025 — and we hope this administration operates with a similar sense of urgency.
It’s no longer enough to reduce discussions about the management of over $1 trillion of public funding every year to tired and familiar debates about how much the U.S. should be spending on what priorities. The U.S. needs to be just as focused on who is making those decisions and to whom and to what ends those resources flow. U.S. public institutions’ health and credibility depend on it. Democracy hangs in the balance.
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5 principles to lead a new U.S. approach to global development
UNLOCK AID ROADSHOW
We need to transform the way the United States and other international partners invest in global development.
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To achieve global targets by 2030, 21st-century global development agencies must take a truly “global” approach.
Our public institutions and especially the U.S. government does not operate with the urgency, flexibility and innovation required to rise to the scale of our 21st-century challenges. Entrenched systems perpetuate the status quo while climate change, pandemics and humanitarian crises accelerate our rapidly closing window of opportunity to take action.
