Learn2Change Online Talk: The Impact of the Suspension of USAID on Sustainability and Democracy

Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe OUR VOICES-OUR PLANET:

The new U.S. administration under Donald Trump has frozen funding for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), causing significant turmoil in international development cooperation. USAID has focused on key areas such as global healthcare, food security, poverty reduction, provision of emergency aid, education, and strengthening of democratic institutions. Before Trump’s recent decision, the United States was the world’s largest donor, financing 47 percent of global humanitarian aid in 2024. The 90-day suspension of USAID funding has already had severe consequences. International aid organisations report that countless humanitarian programs are directly and indirectly affected by the halt and achievement of recent decades of work towards sustainability, justice and democracy are jeopardized.
In this Learn2Change Online Talk we will have the opportunity to explore together with experts from different countries the broader implications of this policy shift, its specific impacts on their work and in their countries, and what the future may hold for international development cooperation and solidarity.

Learn2Change Online Talk with: 

• Joseph Kenson Sakala, Youth for Environment and Sustainability YSD, Malawi
• Geofrey Nsubuga, Somero, Uganda
• Gilbert Kofi Germain, Young and Lonely Foundation, Ghana
• Hamza Ghedamsi, Model African Union, Tunisia

Contact:

Sarah Laustroer, Gabriele Janecki, learn2change@vnb.de
www.learn2change-network.org/our-voices-our-planet

Registration: 

https://www.vnb-ev.de/index.php?module=014000&dat=20584

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An event of the VNB e. V. and Learn2Change – Global Network of Educational Activists in cooperation with Stiftung Leben & Umwelt / Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Niedersachsen and Netzwerk Rechte der Natur in the frame of the project OUR VOICES–OUR PLANET II.