Aid for water, sanitation programs must benefit the poor

In this post in the ONE blog, Brooks Keene, policy adviser for CARE's water team, "makes the argument that foreign aid should benefit the poor first and foremost," noting, "As we approach World Water Day on March 22, CARE, [the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)] and WaterAid have published a report card [.pdf] on how well" the Water for the Poor Act, passed by Congress in 2005, "has been implemented seven years down the line." She writes, "In the absence of a strategy, USAID has gone ahead with water, sanitation and hygiene programs, but much of the effort and dollars have not gone to benefit the poor." She concludes by recommending several steps USAID could take "to spur concerted targeting" (2/9).

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