Roderick Watson, of Maryland, is alleged to have received bribes valued in excess of $1 million while working at USAID, in exchange for using his position as a trusted overseer of taxpayer money.

USAID was the founding donor of Namibia’s Living in a Finite Environment (LIFE) project, which began in 1993 and promoted legislative changes that allowed communities to take over and manage ...

USAID was the founding donor of Namibia’s Living in a Finite Environment (LIFE) project, which began in 1993 and promoted legislative changes that allowed communities to take over and manage ...

A month after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a San Diego-based former employee is speaking out.

The USAID funding freeze revealed a systemic vulnerability in global conservation finance: over-dependence on external donors and top-down funding models; yet community-led initiatives show that ...

After the Trump administration’s assaults on USAID, and pushback from its allies, where are we today? Well, a lot of vituperation has built up in the system, with astonishingly little serious ...

While some of USAID’s programming will reportedly be folded into the State Department by July 1, it’s clear that the U.S. federal government is pulling back from the goals of USAID in a major way.

A federal judge has ordered USAID to pay out contracts and grants for all foreign assistance work done by mid-February. However, processing those payments has been slow going, and as of a March 27 ...

The State Department formally announced Friday it is closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after the Trump administration prevailed in a federal court case challenging the Elo… ...

The State Department plans to 'retire' U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as an independent agency. President Trump appointed Marco Rubio administrator of the organization in February.

USAID investments significantly reduced deaths among children under age five and women of reproductive age, studies show. Skip to main content. Scientific American. March 17, 2025. 6 min read.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees and outside groups are fighting an order from the agency’s leadership to shred and burn its classified documents as well as personnel ...