Silenced Voices, Shifting Power: Mongolian Civil Society, Geopolitics, and the USAID Funding Freeze

Silenced Voices, Shifting Power: Mongolian Civil Society, Geopolitics, and the USAID Funding Freeze

What does the aid freeze mean on a practical level? More broadly, what does it mean for the geopolitical balance Mongolia maintains?

The Silent Voices of the Global South: How USAID’s Funding Freeze Exposes the Need for Change

I write this as an African, as a Ugandan, and as someone who has seen both the promise and the failures of international aid. I have benefited from aid in the past. I know what it means to receive free healthcare because of a foreign-funded programme. I have witnessed communities transformed when funding reaches the right places. But I have also seen the other side—the disillusionment, the empty promises, and the deep frustration when aid does n…