THE virtually overnight suspension of the US government鈥檚 multibillion dollar foreign aid programme channelled through USAID has been headline news in the US and in other parts of the world where this aid has been very important. In the US itself the suspension of USAID programmes has been accompanied by large scale loss of jobs in the aid sector without due...
IN 2019, I worked with a USAID-funded project called Nobo Jatra, which was implemented across 40 unions in the Khulna and Satkhira districts of Bangladesh. One of these unions was Buri Goalini, located in Shyamnagar Upazila. Like many other villages in the southwestern region of the country, Buri Goalini suffered from high salinity levels, leading to...
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, better known as ICDDR,B, has served job termination notice to more than 1,000 of its employees following the US foreign aid freeze.
Myanmar鈥檚 junta chief made a rare request Saturday for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who have already endured three years of war...