USAD s Future threatens worldwide aid measures, especially in Ukraine
USAD s Future threatens worldwide aid measures, especially in Ukraine
The future of US foreign aid is in a state of extreme uncertainty, after the Trump administration has announced that it ends more than 90 % of the US funding for international development (USAI). These news was published in a court file on Wednesday and fall in the efforts of the government to reduce USAID.
a drastic job cuts in USAID
already before the announcement that around 2,000 employees of the authority Remaining employees are sent on vacation, the agency's global auxiliary efforts had largely come to a standstill due to an abrupt and comprehensive stopping and planned abroad. In January, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio published a message that ordered a three -month suspension of the programs, with only a few exceptions to check foreign aid. This led to far -reaching confusion and overridden humanitarian work worldwide.
The consequences of the stop measures
Although Rubio explained last week that the Foreign Ministry had granted "over 250 exceptions", there is hardly any evidence that these exceptions have an impact. Now the administration announced that the review was completed and that around 5,800 USAD funding and 4,100 of the Foreign Ministry were discontinued.
The role of USAid in German help
USAID is the main provider in the area of US foreign assistance and manages 61 % of the over $ 71 billion, which were issued for these purposes in 2023, data from ForeigNassistance.gov. The reduction of USAID could have a significant impact on US help for Ukraine, which has been the largest recipient of USA since Russia's extensive invasion in February 2022.
help for Ukraine
According to the now no longer active website of USAID, Ukraine has received a total of $ 37.6 billion in the form of humanitarian aid, development support and direct domestic help since the start of the war. The support for Ukraine was around nine times the means of the agency in Ethiopia - the second largest recipient. In 2023, more than a third of the USA's editions could be found on Ukraine.
changed priorities in US help
The increase in help for Ukraine has sustainably changed the way in which USAD manages its means. The health sector was most financed over the years, with a large part of the fermentation of the global AIDS crisis. In 2023, on the other hand, the funds for governance, support in building institutions, good government and macroeconomic stability in conflict areas, exceeded the funds for healthcare for the first time in at least one decade.
The effects on other regions
In the past ten years, Africa has received the largest proportion of the USA- around a third of the whole between 2014 and 2023, mainly for health and humanitarian aid.
pepfar and its success
The United States are also the largest donor in the global fund to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which supports the> Presidential emergency program for AIDS-Hilfe (Pepfar), which was launched in 2003 by President George W. Bush. According to the United Nations, Pepfar 70 % of the global AIDS control .
direct support and problem on site
US aid organizations typically work with various organizations instead of carrying out projects directly. In 2023, USAID made around $ 25 billion available for multilateral organizations, including the financing of the emergency aid measures by the world program for nutrition in Ethiopia and Syria. In addition, USAID directly employed approx. 10,000 employees , of whom around two thirds work abroad. After stopping the agency and the suspension of foreign aid at the beginning of the year, many Help employees Abroad dismissed , which were involved in USAID-financed programs. In Ethiopia have lost thousands of contracts for health workers, as an official representative of Unaids reported.
global image of auxiliary measures
Helpers in refugee camps on the Thai border with Myanmar have Problems to provide medical help for children. Almost all auxiliary measures worldwide that depend on US funds are quiet, report USAD employees and contractors who have expressed themselves to CNN and indicate the lack of leadership in the management of the programs and communication with partners.
- The reporting of CNN was supported by Jennifer Hansler, Ivana Kottasová, Maria Kostenko and Lauren Kent.
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