United States of America
North America
White Paper
2025
United States of America
North America
Technical Guidance Document
2025
This article examines the Trump administration’s proposed restructuring of U.S. foreign assistance, which seeks to streamline agencies and align aid with investment-driven growth. The plan introduces promising steps to improve efficiency and expand opportunities for U.S. businesses abroad. However, the transition also brings important considerations, such as ensuring continued access to technical expertise, maintaining regional flexibility, and supporting financing tools that encourage investment in higher-risk markets. The piece outlines ways to maximize the benefits of these reforms while addressing potential challenges to ensure the new structure drives sustainable growth and impact.
This infographic analyzes the consequences of USAID’s 2023–2024 restructuring, which led to the termination of 5,341 projects and the defunding of 2,353 implementing partners, many of whom lost 100% of their USAID support. Over 55% of recipient countries lost all funding. The analysis extends beyond the U.S. to consider concurrent budget contractions by other donor countries, indicating a systemic shift in how foreign aid is prioritized and delivered. The infographic visualizes these changes, offering insights into the scale, distribution, and potential implications of a more constrained and transactional development aid environment.
The infographic, The Value of U.S. Global Health Investments, highlights the critical impact of U.S. foreign assistance in combating infectious diseases, strengthening health systems, and improving health security worldwide. It presents key achievements in reducing mortality and disease incidence, improving case detection, and expanding treatment and surveillance capacity. The data emphasize the long-term benefits of global health programs, including lives saved, enhanced laboratory and diagnostic capabilities, and effective outbreak prevention. The infographic also warns of the risks posed by funding cuts, showing how reducing support for global health initiatives could lead to increased vulnerabilities and higher costs in future crises.
