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This is a channel that we use to keep members in the loop about the latest policy documents and developments. Our work in advocacy cuts across all areas of expertise and impacts all of our members.

Our Director of Government Affairs & Advocacy, Cynthia Smith, and our Advocacy Manager, Jenna Thoretz, post regular updates so our members are alerted to changes in the sector as they happen. We encourage everyone who joins Connect to become part of this community and to keep up to date with the information shared here. Posts to this community go live on our website, and you may wish to use the anonymous posting option if you have a question to ask here.

Register Now! Members-Only Discussion with USAID

  • 1.  Register Now! Members-Only Discussion with USAID

    Posted 07-29-2022 06:13
    Dear Humentum Community,


    Humentum members are invited to a community dialogue with the USAID officials about policies to operationalize locally-led development.

    Speakers will provide an overview of USAID's localization vision and approach, information about the targets the Administrator announced back in November and how they'll be measured, a status update on Agency policies and strategies with relevance for localization, and update the group on some efforts to put localization into practice, highlighting progress with CentroAmerica Local.

    Date: August 10, 10-11 AM ET

    Speakers:

    • Sarah Rose, Senior Advisor to the Administrator on Localization
    • Donald Steinberg, USAID Deputy Administrator
    • Adam Philips, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, Local, Faith & Transformative Partnerships
    • Dr. Christine Sow, CEO, Humentum (moderator)
    Register here!

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    Jenna Thoretz
    Government Affairs and Advocacy Intern
    Humentum
    jenna.thoretz@humentum.org
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