John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, has said Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has launched efforts to address corruption involving monopolies and oligarchs that draw off money from U.S. and Afghan
MoreGayle Smith, senior director at the National Security Council, has received Senate confirmation as the new administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the New York Times reported Monday. Ron Nixon writes
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The U.S. Agency for International Development has announced a $100 million investment to construct 25 new schools in Jordan. USAID said Sunday the project will be carried out as part of the
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Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan has announced the release of the administrationâs final set of agency priority goals. Donovan wrote in a post published Thursday that the 92 goals
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The U.S. Agency for International Development and NASA have unveiled a new information center in Bangkok to facilitate sharing of space-derived weather and environmental data among countries in Southeast Asiaâs lower Mekong
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The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded $10 million in total grants to 48 research projects that aim to address disaster management, environmental and food security issues on a global scale.
MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development has received the highest possible grade on the Small Business Administration‘s fiscal year 2014 small business scorecard. SBA recognized USAID for collaborations with small businesses as
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President Barack Obama has nominated Gayle Smith, senior director of development and democracy at the National Security Council since 2009, as the next U.S. Agency for International Development administrator. Smith has led
MoreFederal agencies continue to push forward open data initiatives alongside efforts to boost analytics capabilities that generate insights from big data to guide government decision-making, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Jack Moore writes that entities such
MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development and the US-Asean Business Council have forged an alliance that will aim to help small- and mid-sized companies expand in regional and international markets. USAID and
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