Gayle Smith, Co-Chair of the ENOUGH Project

“I think this is a truly scrumptious book,” Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, expressed as she introduced Helene Cooper, diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times and author of the “beautiful, painful, and exquisite heart-rendering story,” The House at Sugar Beach.

Zimbabwe's race towards oblivion has triggered literally thousands of condemnatory statements but little in the way of imagination. In proposing in Sunday's Outlook section that Europe induce a military coup by temporarily withdrawing its recognition of Robert Mugabe's government, Paul Collier certainly gets high marks for creativity.

The Wilson Center’s Africa Program and the ENOUGH project were pleased to co-host a discussion of the upcoming Presidential Run-off election in Zimbabwe on May 28, 2008. The speakers provided a comprehensive assessment of this increasingly tenuous and uncertain political crisis, and analyzed the implications of the controversial second round of elections. Panelists included: VOA’s Ray Choto, NDI’s Dileepan Sivapathasundaram, and ENOUGH’s Jamal Jafari and Gayle Smith.

A group of senior lawmakers and global development experts called Tuesday for an overhaul of the US foreign aid system, saying such assistance was vital to keeping the United States safe.

In a new report, the experts -- backed by foreign policy heavyweights in Congress -- said the way US aid was delivered overseas was "badly outdated, poorly organized and generally ill-equipped" to face today's global challenges.

A coalition of nonprofit leaders, think-tank experts, and academics called on U.S. leaders to streamline the way the federal government fights poverty overseas.

The coalition, known as the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, said stronger and better-coordinated leadership on foreign aid is urgently needed, ideally under a Cabinet-level Director of Global Development. The role of providing overseas aid is currently spread among 24 different agencies.

Leading global development experts today called on Congress and the President to elevate development as a key component of the U.S. foreign assistance system to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

WASHINGTON. A network of global development experts from think tanks, humanitarian and development organizations, and advocacy groups, will launch a new initiative to bring U.S. foreign assistance into the 21st century.

"America's foreign assistance system is badly outdated, poorly organized, and generally ill-equipped to meet today's global challenge," says the network's new report, "New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century."