ONE is calling on world leaders to show up for IDA in a big way - so what’s it all about?
Aid and Development
The fact that new COVID-19 variants, like the ones found in the United Kingdom and South Africa, have developed is both concerning and unsurprising. There is a real risk that the longer the pandemic goes on, the more the virus will adapt and mutate — coming back across borders and halting all the progress we have made.
A domestic-only strategy will not work. These variants are coming into the United States from other countries, which means we must have a...
The COVID-19 pandemic is the starkest example of how a global health crisis can have catastrophic and far-reaching consequences – in 25 weeks, efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and preventable disease were set back nearly 25 years. Over 150 million people are expected to slip into extreme poverty in 2021, marking the first global increase in extreme poverty in two decades.
As the Biden administration faces these remarkable global challenges, global development experts remain optimistic that a renewed American commitment...
Isabel dos Santos is Africa’s richest woman, worth an estimated $3 billion. She has amassed a global empire of businesses, luxury apartments, and artwork, and built a reputation as a self-made woman who succeeded through hard work and determination.
But reporting by investigative journalists has revealed she may have used secrecy and her government connections to help amass her fortune. Those connections included her father, who was president of Angola for 38 years until he stepped down in 2017. Dos...
This year, in the face of a global pandemic, the fight against global poverty and inequality became tougher, but more important than ever.
Our tireless activists fought for fair deals on debt, vaccine access, aid budgets, and more. Hundreds of thousands of global activists signed petitions, completed surveys, tweeted at or sent emails to politicians, attended briefing calls, shared messages of solidarity, or danced to our anthem “Stand Together.”
Here’s a quick look at some of what ONE and our activists...
Marc Friend is the Assistant Director, US Government Relations at the ONE Campaign. Here’s his analysis and thoughts on recent congressional plans to strengthen global health security.
COVID-19 has proven that we won’t be safe until the world works together to tackle this pandemic. Unfortunately, we also know that this won’t be the last deadly disease that the world will face. The US should be front and center leading the effort to prevent and respond to the next global health...
Six months since the coronavirus outbreak was first reported, only 0.1% of the total emergency funding appropriated by Congress so far has gone to the global coronavirus response. As Senate leadership weighs additional funding for the COVID-19 response, there has been a surge of support for funding for a global pandemic response package.
Bipartisan group of senators push for COVID-19 global response funding
With over 13 million reported cases worldwide, it is clear that if we are to defeat this virus...
Mark Dybul is the co-director of the Centre for Global Health Practice and Impact, and professor at Georgetown University. We interviewed him as part of our #PassTheMic campaign. Here’s some of what he had to say.
This is the first time really since 1918 that the world has encountered a pandemic that reaches every corner of the earth. As soon as restrictions start to lift, the infection will start to pop up from people moving around. So we need to...
Chances are, most people you talk to would likely agree that it’s important to end poverty. But, if you were to ask all those people to explain poverty, chances are you would get a lot of different answers. Poverty is complicated, and there’s no one answer to what it means. On top of that, there are a number of causes and solutions.
That’s why we’ve put together a quick explainer on poverty, why it matters, and what you can do...
To save you reading through the thousands of pages of President Donald Trump’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2021, here’s a quick look at the good and bad news and what it means for the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease.
We’ll start with the good news…
The budget contains full funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which helps vaccinate children in the world’s poorest countries, and a $1.16 billion multi-year pledge. While Congress has the power of the purse,...