Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 9 - Agency for International Development

• Scale back USAID's global footprint and budget to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels
• Appoint USAID Administrator as Director of Foreign Assistance with rank of Deputy Secretary at State Department
• Restore and expand Trump Administration's counter-China infrastructure at USAID
• Eliminate climate change policies and programs, including rescinding USAID's Climate Strategy 2022-2030
• Dismantle USAID's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) apparatus
• Rename Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment to Office of Women, Children, and Families
• Remove terms like "gender," "reproductive health," and "sexual and reproductive rights" from USAID materials
• Reinstate and expand the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy (global gag rule)
• Block funding to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• Apply pro-life policies to all foreign assistance, including humanitarian aid
• Strengthen partnerships with faith-based organizations
• Shift funding from UN agencies and international NGOs to local, especially faith-based, entities
• Prioritize private sector engagement and free-market solutions
• Tie aid to countries' resistance to China's influence
• Develop exit strategies for long-term humanitarian responses
• Promote fossil fuel and nuclear energy development in Africa
• Challenge socialist ideas in Latin America through funding partnerships and civil society groups
• Focus on promoting free-market policies in aid recipient countries
• Increase scrutiny of multilateral organizations
• Enhance American branding on aid projects
• Appoint more political appointees to key USAID positions
• Prioritize religious freedom initiatives in development efforts
• Streamline procurement processes and diversify partner base
• Implement new policy language in all grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements
• Harvest funds from the Bureau for Democracy, Development, and Innovation for new priorities
• Expand use of the New Partnership Initiative across USAID
• Revise USAID's Asia strategy to counter Chinese influence
• Reset Middle East programming to align with national security interests
• Reassess and potentially terminate long-standing programs in Latin America
• Implement new personnel policies, including recruiting veterans and faith community stakeholders