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Contributors | Alan Averyt

Alan Averyt is advocacy coordinator in UNA-USA’s Washington office, developing the association's grass-roots campaigns He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1999 with a B.A. in history and political science and received an M.A. in government, with honors, from Johns Hopkins University in 2007.

Do Public-Private Partnerships Help Meet Millennium Development Goals?

By Alan Averyt | Aug 16, 2010

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight held a hearing on July 27 on achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals through public-private partnerships. The witnesses described ways in which public-private partnerships have been used to increase funding and successfully support US projects for many years.

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US-UN Funding: Congress Adopts Emergency Spending Bill and Begins Work on 2011 Budget

By Alan Averyt | Aug 04, 2010

Before adjourning for its monthlong August recess, Congress sent to President Obama a fiscal-year 2010 emergency spending bill containing nearly $100 million for UN peacekeeping to cover expenses for Haiti. It also began consideration of fiscal-year 2011 appropriations bills to finance US contributions to the United Nations. In an environment of intense political pressure to limit federal spending, the House and the Senate, with a slight exception, met or exceeded the president’s financing requests for UN peacekeeping, US dues to the UN and UN specialized agencies and voluntary contributions to UN programs.

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