Interaction’s  Global Partnership for
Effective Assistance

What is the Global Partnership?

The Global Partnership for Effective Assistance is a multiyear campaign to save lives and build self-sufficiency by increasing development and humanitarian assistance, improving aid effectiveness, and building international partnerships.

What are the goals of the Campaign?

Doing our part also means joining with other responsible members of the international community to advance international development targets to reduce poverty agreed upon by virtually all nations, including the United States. These U.N. “Millennium Development Goals” set measurable and achievable benchmarks to be reached by 2015 to reduce mother and child mortality, alleviate hunger, provide basic education to all children, promote women’s equality and empowerment, and combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Through the Global Partnership Campaign, American humanitarian and development organizations are actively working to meet these objectives by:

• Advocating for increased funds for effective development and humanitarian assistance programs that build self-sufficiency in people. We urge policymakers to provide additional funding to core accounts in the international affairs budget emphasizing programs that build self-sufficiency – through providing basic education, healthcare, work and farming skills, reducing hunger, promoting woman and girls, refugee and disaster response and building peace and democracy.

• Urging the President to provide promised increased resources for the HIV/AIDS initiative and the new Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). The President pledged $15 billion over 5 years for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care. He also pledged to create the MCA to increase development assistance by $5 billion annually above current levels by 2006. These funds would go to countries that meet select criteria for governing justly, investing in the well-being of their people, and encouraging economic freedom. The campaign is working to ensure that the President, in partnership with the Congress, fulfills these commitments in an effective, accountable way.