USAID immediately began to oversee U.S. foreign aid programs to develop farming, irrigation and dam construction projects throughout Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, taking over the ...

(Part 2) It is well known that a major obstacle to faster growth and, more importantly, a more equitable distribution of income wealth in the Philippines is the concentration of economic activities in ...

In Kenya, USAID was in the midst of a five-year, $100 million project that aimed to provide drinking water and irrigation systems for 150,000 people when contractors and staffers were told in ...

But now, a group of former USAID staff has come together to connect big donors with cost-effective projects like this, which desperately need cash to carry out operations already in the pipeline ...

A resident wades through flooded farmlands after the onslaught of the southwest monsoon coupled by a super typhoon in Pangasinan, Philippines, among the areas in the country with high exposure to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Key officials of the House of Representatives oversaw another solar-powered pump irrigation project (SPIP), this time in Central Luzon, in a bid to assist farmers’ water ...

MANILA, Philippines – House of Representatives Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez believes the Marcos administration’s P20/kilo rice program is sustainable, considering the expected increase ...

The Trump administration said at the end of February 2025 that it is freezing 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts, leaving few projects intact. It has also recalled nearly 10,000 USAID staff ...