ProPublica. “It sends a message when an overarching umbrella policy that is supposed to inform all of USAID’s practices and initiatives is missing those factors,” Gayatri Patel, the director of gender advocacy at CARE, a humanitarian organization, said of the LGBTQ omissions.According to ProPublica, the omission of LGBTQ mentions sparked an internal email exchange among USAID officials, with some noting their exclusion.
In response, Timothy Meisburger, USAID’s director of the Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance, wrote that while staff are free to comment on the policy, they should “keep in mind that the policies of the current Administration may differ from those of previous Administrations, and that it is our.