October 2, 2009

Help Wanted: Ideas to Inform White House Presidential Study Directive on U.S. Development Policy

Posted by Sheila Herrling in Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Tags: development policy, presidential study directive, psd

One month and four interagency meetings into the Presidential Study Directive (PSD-7)  to review and provide strategic direction on U.S. global development policy, what do we know about what’s going on?

We know the exercise includes all agencies with a stake in the development policy arena (which is many!).  We know that it is not a study of foreign aid, but the entirety of U.S. development policies, programs and tools.  We know the NSC is trying hard to base the deliberations less on opinion and more on analytics, data and experience from the field on what works. Read More…

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