October 2018
Emerging Afghan Leader to Attend Major Youth Summit in the Netherlands
Twenty-three-year-old Mohammad Mustafa Raheal is part of a new generation of Afghan leaders who have come of age during the post-Taliban period in Afghanistan. Like …
October 2018
Banning the Phrase ‘Empowering Others’
I banned the use of empower at Counterpart. I took a red pen and deleted any sentences in proposals that read that we empower citizens …
August 2018
The Mandela Legacy: YALI and The New Generation of Remarkable Youth Leaders
The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) launched in 2014 as a partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, and the U.S. African …
August 2018
Forging New Partnerships in Tbilisi: Working Together Toward Open Government
Recently, at an event in D.C. focused on Democracy in the Western Hemisphere, USAID Administrator Mark Green told stories from his travels around the world …