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🗓️ 20 February 2025

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Introducing Disrupting Aid: The Security and Economic Implications from The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO).

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The United States has long been the largest aid donor in the world, accounting for about 40 percent of humanitarian assistance globally last year, according to the United Nations. But that is quickly changing.

Most U.S. foreign aid is currently on hold. Thousands of projects are at risk of elimination. And nearly all staff from the U.S. Agency for International Development are on administrative leave.

How did we get to this moment? And what has been the impact of the foreign aid freeze so far, including on women and girls?

In the newest season of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women, we are following the U.S. foreign aid news. In this first episode, you will hear a conversation we taped at Foreign Policy’s Emerging Threats Forum, an official side event of the Munich Security Conference, about the economic and security implications of halting overseas development assistance.

Foreign Policy editor in chief Ravi Agrawal spoke with Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, the president and CEO of the One Campaign, and Umulkher (Umi) Harun Mohamed, a member of Kenya’s National Assembly. Their conversation focuses on Africa, which gets about 30 percent of U.S. foreign aid annually.

If you want to share how this disruption of aid is impacting your life, please be in touch. It can be anonymous, if you prefer. You can reach us at [email protected].

The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women is a podcast from Foreign Policy, supported in part by the Gates Foundation and Northwestern University’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.

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0:00.0	We had some ideas about how the season was going to go, but then this happened.
0:07.0	... Friday night. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, now ordering the U.S. to immediately stop almost all foreign aid and supplies.
0:16.0	USAID was dismantled on Trump's order, even though it was mandated by Congress and its funding was required by law.
0:26.1	Decades, the United States has been the largest single donor of aid globally, and last year it provided more than 40% of the UN's humanitarian aid budget.
0:36.2	Billionaire Elon Musk announced President Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.
0:41.3	The Trump administration ordered a pause to most U.S. foreign aid till late April.
0:47.3	Thousands of projects are at risk of elimination, and nearly all staff from the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID,
0:56.0	are on administrative leave.
0:59.0	There are lawsuits challenging these decisions, including a judge late Thursday, temporarily
1:04.0	ordering the resumption of aid that began before January 20th.
1:08.0	But one thing is certain.
1:10.0	USAID is taking a big hit. So how did we get to this moment?
1:14.5	What's been the impact of the American foreign aid freeze so far, including on women and girls?
1:20.6	And where does the gender equality movement go from here?
1:26.6	I'm Rina Ninen, and in this season of the hidden economics of remarkable women,
1:31.8	we're following the U.S. foreign aid news.
1:35.2	In this episode, you'll hear a conversation that we taped at the Munich Security Conference
1:40.0	about the economic and security implications of this aid freeze.
1:49.3	The conversation was moderated by Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief, Ravi Agrawal.
1:55.9	He spoke with Indy Di Wuneli, President and CEO of the One Campaign, and Umi Harun-Mohamed,
1:58.1	a member of parliament in Kenya.
2:05.6	So we have a great opportunity here to talk about why aid matters,
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