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9. Agency for International Development · Minor

Empower the Center for Innovation and Impact to expand faith-based health networks

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265 9. Agency for International Development

“The Bureau’s Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) should be empowered to expand networks of private and faith-based health organizations that can develop projects using development-impact bonds, capital funds, and innovative technologies, including with the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the new U.S. International Development Finance Corporation.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    The record moved nearby, not on the ask. Nearly $2 billion in partnerships with faith-based and community organizations, including a Faith and Community Initiative award to World Vision and a consortium of local faith-based implementers worth up to $850 million over five years, strengthening more than 2,500 faith-based hospitals, clinics and community hubs across 17 countries, plus $570 million routed to faith-based providers through the bilateral health memoranda of understanding. That is grant and award funding rather than the development-impact bonds, capital funds and Millennium Challenge Corporation or DFC instruments the Quote names, and no successor to the Center for Innovation and Impact was empowered to run any of it — which is the point: the ask was that CII be empowered, and CII is gone. Under §3b the Status stays `not-started` with this dated Primary Evidence attached to it.

  2. Not started

    Playbook §3b, an ask addressed to a body that no longer exists: the ask is that a named USAID office be empowered, which is something done to and within that office, so its abolition defeats the ask rather than delivering it. USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact ceased to exist with the agency on 2025-07-01 — USAID's own Federal Register notice records "the transition of certain foreign assistance functions to the Department of State and a reduction-in-force of nearly all USAID personnel" — and Federal Register full text for "Center for Innovation and Impact" returns 0 documents for the window. The abolition is carried here as the record moving the other way. The record also moved nearby: the America First Global Health Strategy carries the ask's purpose under a section headed "Leverage Faith-Based Organizations", recording that faith-based providers are over 50 percent of delivery capacity in Eswatini and Uganda and over 40 percent in many other countries, and committing to build on their twenty-year track record.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Researched 2026-08-28.

Re-leveled 2026-09-01, under the rule for an ask addressed to a body that no longer exists (could the ask’s object be in the asked-for state with the body gone?): partial → not started. The Quote’s object is CII itself (“CII should be empowered”), not an outcome in the world that survives the office, so the answer is No. Contrast #690 on the same page family, whose object is the Bureau’s programs and funding streams and which therefore stays leveled on the state.

Reviewed 2026-09-06. The America First Global Health Strategy says what this and four sibling items quote it as saying. A doubt carried over from the first search: state.gov answered a “Technical Difficulties” holding page to every address, so a page that appeared to open was not a read and the strategy’s words were unverified on #690, #693, #694, #702 and #747. That is over. state.gov/america-first-global-health-strategy/ now opens to its own page with its own title, a nonsense address returns a real “page not found”, and the page links the 40-page report at state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/America-First-Global-Health-Strategy-Report.pdf (PDF title “America First Global Health Strategy”, created 2025-09-17), which was read in full.

The section this item quotes exists and is quoted accurately. It is headed “Leverage Faith-Based Organizations” and reads: “Faith-based hospitals and clinics are a meaningful part of the health delivery system in many of the highest burden countries. For example, faith-based providers represent over 50% of the delivery capacity in Eswatini and Uganda and over 40% in many other countries. Faith-based organizations have a 20+ year track record of partnering with the U.S. government to deliver health foreign assistance.” A figure headed “Reach and Influence of Faith-Based Providers in Select Countries” gives faith-based health-facility market share for ten countries, Eswatini at 52% and Uganda at 50%.

The other four items’ quotations were checked against the same document on the same reading: #694’s “duplicative and highly inefficient”, “multiple layers of overhead cost”, “57 implementing partners and more than 300 sub-recipients” and “highest risk of an outbreak” are all verbatim; #690’s “run in silos” is verbatim, and one figure in its note was misattributed and has been corrected there. Status unchanged here and on all four.

Action
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Object
Center for Innovation and Impact (CII)
ID
693