Sara Jerving
Senior Reporter at Devex
Global health journalist at @Devex [email protected]
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4 weeks ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
USAID leadership sent out guidance to country missions abroad which highlighted 24 “central awards to support global health programming” that will continue under the agency’s “narrower focus.” ‘In the wake’ of the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agency’s leadership sent country missions abroad some insight into what will be considered acceptable global health programming under the Trump administration — and what won’t.
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4 weeks ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
Devex spoke with development and private sector experts on the African continent who shared perspectives on what was wrong with U.S. foreign aid and the needed reforms. Frenzied, cut-throat, and chaotic — that’s how recent efforts to dismantle the U.S. foreign assistance infrastructure have been described.
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1 month ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
The agency's foreign service officers have been ordered to return to the U.S. by Aug. 15th. That's the same day all local hires in countries where USAID has worked will be terminated. It’s the end of an era for USAID foreign service officers and their colleagues from the host countries who worked alongside them.
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1 month ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene |Sara Jerving
On Friday night, Peter Marocco — the director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance — sent a message to his team. “I’m fielding [White House] calls on whether we’ve complied yet with the President’s order to stop all payments to Afghanistan,” Marocco wrote in an email, which was later obtained by Devex. He then listed a series of questions relating to awards in that country, asking his team to confirm whether they had “stopped all payments of any kind” that go toward Afghanistan.
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1 month ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
A federal judgehas temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Inter-American Foundation through a preliminary injunction. This unwinds the actions taken over the past month and a half — reinstating IAF’s president and chief executive officer, Sara Aviel, and voiding actions taken by Peter Marocco, which include terminating IAF’s grants and firing staff. Marocco, a Trump appointee, has served as a leading player in dismantling the U.S. foreign aid apparatus.
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USAID leadership sent out guidance to country missions abroad which highlighted 24 “central awards to support global health programming” that will continue under the agency’s “narrower focus.” https://t.co/kC9EkRWjsm
USAID foreign service officers have been ordered to return to the U.S. by Aug. 15th. That's the same day all local hires — known as foreign service nationals — in countries where the agency has worked will be terminated. https://t.co/gENIALbuCD