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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.
  • 1.  USAID Accountability Mechanism Overview Webinar

    Posted 05-24-2023 09:44

    USAID's Bureau for Management will host a consultation with Implementing Partners on Thursday, June 1st · 8:00am – 9:00am (EST) to introduce its new Accountability Mechanism (AM), including why it's important, and what it means for your members. 

    The AM is a new tool that will serve as a redress channel for any individual or group of individuals who can demonstrate that they have experienced or may experience potentially adverse social, economic, or environmental  impacts resulting from USAID efforts. As Implementing Partners, the M Bureau wants to introduce the AM to you. This webinar will be followed at a later date by a round of consultations with IPs to hear from you regarding good ways to socialize this with the communities we work in (i.e., program participants) and considerations for Accountability Mechanism roll out from your perspective.

    You can register for the event here



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    Jenna Thoretz
    Advocacy Manager
    Humentum
    jenna.thoretz@humentum.org
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  • 2.  RE: USAID Accountability Mechanism Overview Webinar

    Posted 05-24-2023 10:28

    I am hearing that they recalled it and decided to postpone, Jenna. Since now Gene is out of the bottle, I wonder if there is any intel about this effort that can be shared in this group.



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    Sergey H.
    Senior Director, Enterprise Risk & Compliance
    Catholic Relief Services
    Baltimore MD
    Collaborate: https://sergeyh.bio.link
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