Enhancing US aid effectiveness: The state of play and ways forward

This panel considers three important policy processes now underway—the Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review (QDDR) being advanced by the State Department, the Presidential Study Directive (PSD) being carried out by the National Security Council to review US global development policy, and efforts to rewrite the US Foreign Assistance Act within the US Congress—and the historic opportunity they offer to reshape US foreign assistance and global development policy to be more effective, coherent and integrated. It brings NGO perspectives, drawn from decades of working in poor communities worldwide, together with US government policy perspectives.

Wednesday, April 21

Harvard University Kennedy School

Moderated by: Professor Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Featuring

• Steve Feldstein, Professional Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, US Congress
• Leon "Skip" Waskin, Senior Development Advisor, QDDR Leadership Team, US State Department
• Paul O'Brien, Vice President for Policy and Advocacy, Oxfam America
• Jonathan Quick, President and CEO, Management Sciences for Health