I am writing this as an African, as an African, as an African, as an African who sees the promise and failure of international aid. I have benefited from help in the past. I know what to buy free health due to an external funded program. I witnessed the societies when the financing reaches the necessary places. However, I also saw the other side that the other side, the disappointment in the unless the empty promises and aid into a continuous change.
The sudden freezing of USAID’s humanities and development assistance sent shock waves through the countries dependent on help. Governments, NGOs and agencies are rotating for answers. But here in Uganda, a part of the aid has long been part of our living and being mixed. There is a mixture of panic, anger and resignation and calm, painful understanding. The truth is that today for some communities today, today has been valid today. People are rarely tired of waiting for help. Roads remain unpaved. Schools remain overwhelmed and retreated. Hospitals do not have the most basic supply. The reality for many, the reality remains the same for the flows or absence of money.
For decades, global southern foreign generosity is described as a helpless buyer. But the reality is more complicated. At the end of these funds, people were very wasted in bureaucracy, management and infinite strategy. Many times, I have never had a day in the communities that fight this struggle, collecting great salaries in the communities, and collected great salaries during the period of poverty and addiction. Uganda helped billions of years. Again, the struggle remains the same. Now withdrawing with USAID, cracks in this broken system glitters.
The results are real. Take a sample to a clinic in the campaign, which provides the necessary HIV services to thousands of sensitive people. With the financing ice cream, its operations are on the verge of collapse. Health workers were sent home, just put a handful to handle a table load. Viral load and CD4 test are once free, now it is unavailable for most of those who need the most. Prospectous prevention (PEP) programs designed to prevent HIV infections, programs designed to prevent HIV infections, were taken by thousands of risk. Stigma and discrimination have already made the main populations in the main HIV treatment. Now even the safe places available for them disappear. This is not just an operating retardation. This is a crisis.
This moment should be a waking call for all of us in the global south, not only for financing losers. USAID Freezer is a painful but clear signal: a single donor, we cannot depend on a single government or a single organization to finance our survival. It’s time to re-think. It’s time to build something different. It is not based on regret or addiction, but a new partnership on shared goals and sustainable investments. We need the private sector to step in the special sector, not with one-time donations, but to step in real economic opportunities. We need regional philanthropists to see that the future of Africa needs to be formed by Africans. We need funding mechanisms that prioritize direct service delivery over bureaucratic road barriers.
This is not just to burn the lights. This is a very long time to be released from a failed system. In the Global South, we cannot wait for the CV to be launched. We must be responsible for our development. We need to form our future.
Therefore, we have a critical conversation in the new global markets (NGM). “New Financing World Order: Transformation Partnership for Global Southern Development.” This event will bring together thinking leaders and development practitioners to discuss how we move outside the old model of external aid addiction and real, sustainable solutions.
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Time: 2:00 am England time
Speakers include:
- Dr. Laxmikant Palo (People Health Foundation)
- Criminal Chief Cross (Moborize the Recreation Center)
- Aliganyira Brian (Ark Wellness Hub)
- Dr. Rajiv Tandon (Global Public Health Leader and Lawyer)
This is not just another webinar. Is a call to activity. The future of development should be carried out by those closest to problems, solutions and influences.
New global markets (NGM) advice Not just another consultant. We bridge between the global ambition and the global southern opportunity. We specialize in strategic issuance, assembly and income diversification, not only survival, but to help develop. The future of development must change and we are doing this transformation.
Join us when funding changes the world order. Time has come.
