President Trump and Elon Musk Trying to pull out a decade USAID Agency It is likely to end millions of US -dollar dollars designed for the economic expansion of women worldwide, including programs that compete for Mr. Trump's first term, his daughter Ivanka.
While Mr Trump's application will put almost all working agencies on vacation, there Currently tied In the US court, pause Ordered by Secretary of State Mark Rubio In late January, all new US foreign aid programs funded by the State Department and USAID remains in place.
The Global Women Initiative was intended to help 50 million women “realize their economic potential” by 2025, and the question that the president's daughter called at the time an important sphere in which the Republicans and Democrats could find common ground.
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Lilian Acho was the head of projects for AFCHIX, a network for women in technology that was part of Connect Challenge “Connect Challenge” USAID. In 2019, she was invited to the White House for a meeting with Ivanka Trump, which was then an advisor to her father, and to attend the W-GDP messages.
To coincide with launch, Ivanka Trump wrote Wall Street Journal, in which she said that W-GDP “for the first time coordinates America's commitment to one of the most underestimated resources in the developing-talent, ambition and genius.”
On February 7, 2019, Achom was one of the nine grants invited to the White House, where President Trump signed a memorandum in an oval house. Mr. Trump's administration has promised $ 50 million on the W-GDP-published USAID.
On Monday, Achom told CBS News that while the president expressed his committed comments on this initiative, Ivanka “was a man who really cared”, saying that the president's daughter seemed genuinely concerned about the development of women and economic expansion and opportunities.
“I have seen that she really loves stories about our success, stories about how women affect community around the world,” the acho said.
Trump's first administration later – Note The program reached 12 million women in the first year. Biden's administration continued the W-GDP work as part of the Gender Justice and Equality Fund, which has invested $ 300 million in direct resources and another $ 200 million in indirect funding between 2021 and 2023, according to USAID documents, CBS News.
Ivanka Trump did not immediately respond to the CBS News request for a comment on the program or reduction in USAID.
The State Department spokesman asked about the W-GDP program, said CBS News RUBio, “To make sure that they are effective and in accordance with US foreign policy as part of the first program.”
The press secretary said the department “wisely reviewed all the refusals presented by” various programs and staff, seeking to continue assistance, and they stated that the results would be transferred “transparent”.
One out focus The W-GDP program has access to women to technology that is still behind that men around the world. According to the White House documents, more than 1.7 billion women in low and average income countries did not possess a mobile phone, and they are much less likely to use the mobile internet.
Okay explained that rural communities in Africa were less capable of accessing new and new technologies, from the cost of the Internet and devices, as well as because for many people medical accounts, education and food remain priorities.
In Northern Uganda, where HIV prevalence among women and children was historically higher than in other parts of the country, additional USAID Funding is provided as part of the assistance program, PEPFARThe communities gave the community access to the constant supplies of antiretroviral drugs. Such support is limited by the Uganda's own government of the restrained finance, said Agrem.
“Usaid really treated those who are in society as their friend,” she said. “Like their number one friend, I must say because they visited them, they gave them grants not only to support their medical institutions and access to medicine, but also for access to economic expansion of rights and opportunities.”
USAID financing was also consistent and reliable, unlike some other programs, as well as shutdown programs funded by ACHOM, affected access to technology more than just women's access to technology.
“The ability of the whole community to get out of poverty will really be slowed down or broken,” she said CBS News.