THE
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
EFFECTIVENESS ALLIANCE
(IDEA)
The
International Development Effectiveness Alliance (IDEA) is a group of
practitioners
who have come together around a common concern: how the U.S. Government
is
carrying out foreign assistance in developing countries. Most
development
assistance is channeled through the U.S. Agency for International
Development
(USAID) and a range of other
IDEA
is not about the U.S. Government making available more money with which
to
carry out more foreign assistance. We
recognize that the Obama Administration intends to make available more
funding
in hopes that USAID will expand its impact. IDEA wants to develop
programs
taking the monies now available
and turn them into effective foreign
assistance
programs. Most importantly, IDEA is about transforming the people with
whom we
practitioners work in these programs so that they may lead successful,
sustainable lives.
For
those of you who are passionate about this topic, please join us in our
quest
to create a better world through the money spent by the U.S. Government
for
foreign assistance. Go through our web site to get a feel for the
approaches we
are suggesting. IDEA members met over time to discuss and develop the
principles
you will find here. Try those principles out in your development work
and let
us know the impacts. Let us know if you would like a presentation on
effective
international development at your organization. Contact us and let us
know you
share the same concerns. Inform everyone through this forum of the good
ideas
that have worked to create effective foreign assistance programs. Watch
for our
speakers’ and training workshops, which are open to all, to
be a
part of
stimulating conversation on effective development. We have included
some
examples of effectiveness that we know about. Help us expand this
conversation
so that all our voices may be heard, in Congress, by the agencies
financing
foreign assistance programs, and by the American people. Become a
member and
let’s transform how foreign assistance is done.