Impact Stories
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Hillary Clinton's Confirmation Hearing
Hillary Clinton's strong and consistent statements on global poverty and preventable diseases, along with the attention these issues received from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, bode well for anti-poverty programs under the Obama Administration.
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Obama's First Inaugural Address
ONE is seeking a $4 billion increase for poverty reduction accounts as a positive start to enabling President Obama to fulfill his historic anti-poverty commitments, as pledged in his inaugural address.
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UN Summit: Fill the Funding Gap
Thanks in small part to more than 50,000 ONE members demanding their leaders not forget developing nations, the food crisis stayed on the agenda of the 2008 UN Summit and a variety of donors made significant commitments on agriculture, education, and health.
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Accra: Improve Aid Quality
Increasing transparency doesn't have the same tangible result as simply increasing development assistance, so it can be more difficult to sell to results-driven politicians. However, increasing aid effectiveness is crucial to making sure that when we do give aid, it effectively achieves its intended purpose.
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The "EU Billion" for Food and Agriculture
Ultimately, the European Commission, European Parliament, and European Council agreed to give a full €1 billion for agriculture, of which €760 million is new funding at the EU level.
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PEPFAR: America’s Response to the Global Emergency of HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
Over the next five years, if fully funded, this reauthorized PEPFAR will stop 12 million cases of HIV infection, double the number of people on antiretroviral treatment to 3 million people (including 450,000 children), and provide care for five million children who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Hunger Crisis
The G8, led by Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, made the hunger crisis a top priority at their 2008 Summit.
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Visit Africa
By securing commitments from all of the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates, ONE members ensured that the next president would bring important attention to Africa and development policy no matter who won the election.
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“On The Record”
"On the Record" was the centerpiece of the ONE Vote '08 campaign, which received the prestigious Center for Global Development Commitment to Development Award for 2008. Most importantly, "On The Record" was key to the successful effort to make global poverty a leading foreign policy issue in 2008.
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IMF Debt Relief for Liberia
Liberia has a long, difficult road ahead. The country will have to meet tough standards to complete its IMF debt relief. But its first step is a significant one, putting Liberia on the path to take money it had been using to service its massive debt and instead invest in its people through projects and programs to alleviate poverty.
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