Global Budget and Appropriations Colin Smith, Communications Director, RESULTS Crickett Nicovich, Senior Policy Associate, RESULTS

“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”

President’s Budget Congress’s Budget Appropriations Committee: o Sub-committee drafts and marks-up bill o Full committee marks up

Our Focus – Senate and House State and Foreign Operations Sub-Committee Leadership Chairman Lindsay GrahamChairwoman Kay Granger Ranking Member Patrick LeahyRanking Member Nita Lowey And the full appropriations committee members! or

Right on time… President’s Budget arrives Feb. 9th Appropriations deadlines are coming

Making the Case

Three BIG barriers to public support 8 CYNICISM DISTANCE FUTILITY

Our Audience: The Engaged Public 9 Skeptics Swings Pros

Our Strategy 10

Our Strategy: Swing the Swings 11

Always Emphasize our Goal: Self-reliance  Position the end goal of development as giving everyone a chance to become self-reliant.  Relate development goals to a broader story of growing independence globally.  Lead with abstract goals like ‘ending poverty.’ These are triggers for Skeptics who are quick to point out unrealistic objectives. Don’tDo 12

Reframe the Moral Wrong as Wasted Potential, Not Helpless Suffering  Provoke indignation about the immense waste of unrealized human potential caused by random circumstance around the world.  Invoke pity for the poorest people, or for helpless human suffering. This sentiment deepens the hopelessness many people feel. Don’tDo 13

Describe the Potential of World’s Poorest People  Talk about people who share our values— ingenuity, determination, and pride.  Harness the most resonant moral case: opportunity is unfairly distributed and people do not choose where they are born.  Portray people in developing countries as helpless “others” who need to be rescued. Don’tDo 14

Show that Development Works Through Partnerships  Highlight the active role poor people and developing countries play.  Show that expertise, effort, investment, risk and responsibility are all shared.  Position donor countries, celebrities or NGOs as heroic providers of benefits and solutions.  Present development as a one-way street. Don’tDo 15

Use Progress as a Tool— Not a Story Itself  Use progress stories when they have context.  Frame progress in terms of risk of attrition: if we stop now, we will not only fail to make more progress, we will lose the gains we’ve made.  Try to persuade people with progress without framing your story through a shared value/theme first. Don’tDo 16

THE NARRATIVE

Narrative Themes 18

Narrative Messages 19 TAGLINE: Building the foundations of independence.

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21 Supporters

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I hope Sen. Nicovich will include a large funding request for foreign aid. I hope Sen. Nicovich will prioritize supporting people to make better lives for themselves and their families worldwide. Putting it into Action

The United States must provide more money for the global fight against tuberculosis so that we can end this disease. Health workers, nurses, and patients around the world are battling TB in their communities, and the U.S. can help support them to put an end to this disease. Putting it into Action

We all know that education is incredibly important, and I think the U.S. should give more money to education globally so that more kids can go to school. My education made me who I am today. There’s no investment I’d rather make than supporting more kids to get an education and build their own bright futures. Putting it into Action

Millions of babies are dying because of preventable or treatable causes, and this doesn’t need to happen. The U.S. government can and should be doing more to save them. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to keep my kids healthy and safe. Millions of parents around the world want the same thing, and I hope we can support them in giving their kids a healthy start to life. Putting it into Action

RESULTS’ FY 2017 Requests Child Health, Gavi, and Nutrition Provide $880 million for Maternal and Child Health. Include $265 million for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, for global immunization within Maternal and Child Health. Provide $230 million for Nutrition programs in Global Health. Bilateral Tuberculosis Provide $400 million for scaling up critical U.S.-supported efforts to control and treat TB and drug-resistant TB. Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Provide $1.35 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to maintain and expand life-saving prevention and treatment programs. Global Partnership for Education and Basic Education Include $125 million for the Global Partnership for Education within Basic Education to cost-effectively support access to quality education for all children. Provide $925 million for Basic Education in Development Assistance.

When are the deadlines? Individual office deadlines o These happen first! o Ask your MoCs/staff when their deadlines are Sign-On letter deadlines (AKA “Dear Colleagues”) o Each letter may have a different deadline o There will be regular s to group leaders and updates on the blog so you can follow that Sub-Committee deadlines o These dictate when sign-on letters close o Personal requests for all members are due to the committee chair and ranking member in an official request form. o Committee members can still weigh in individually after this deadline

Getting Congress to Weigh in Congressional Sign on letters to Appropriators o In 2015 we had: 128 Reps and 28 Senators sign letters in support of robust MCH and nutrition funding Bi-partisan House letter in support of $400 million for TB with 49 signers. o In 2013 we had: 64 Reps and 11 Senators sign letters in support of robust MCH and nutrition funding House letter in support of TB with only 20 signers

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