This Fall, Unlock Aid is hosting a series of discussions on how our public institutions must evolve to achieve the SDGs. Learn more and get involved here.
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We're driving legislation to transform our global development approach by investing more in sustainable economic growth, jointly setting investment priorities with countries and proximate communities, and better leveraging innovation to solve the hardest problems of our time.
We’re holding our elected leaders accountable to the commitments it’s made to change business as usual, especially in the context of U.S. global spending. The time to announce policy changes is over. Now is when we need to see major, tangible results. We’ll be running Unlock Aid as if we may not be here in 2025 — and we hope this administration operates with a similar sense of urgency.
It’s no longer enough to reduce discussions about the management of over $1 trillion of public funding every year to tired and familiar debates about how much the U.S. should be spending on what priorities. The U.S. needs to be just as focused on who is making those decisions and to whom and to what ends those resources flow. U.S. public institutions’ health and credibility depend on it. Democracy hangs in the balance.
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Powerful Senate lawmakers promise to introduce bill that would "transform" U.S. global development
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U.S. Senate lawmakers just passed a spending bill that will have a big impact for social innovators everywhere.
Our public institutions and especially the U.S. government does not operate with the urgency, flexibility and innovation required to rise to the scale of our 21st-century challenges. Entrenched systems perpetuate the status quo while climate change, pandemics and humanitarian crises accelerate our rapidly closing window of opportunity to take action.
