Honoring Our Work, Strengthening Our Future
To our EngenderHealth colleagues, USAID partners, and allies across the global health and development community: your work mattered, your impact endures, and we stand with you.
Together, we built something extraordinary. Through relentless dedication, long nights, and an unyielding commitment to a healthier, more just world, we expanded access to sexual and reproductive health, strengthened health systems, and stood alongside communities in times of crisis.
Because of our collective efforts, women have received life-saving care, babies have taken their first breaths, young people have gained new opportunities, and families have exercised their rights to make informed choices about their futures.
Global development is at a crossroads. With USAID award terminations and international aid reductions from governments around the world shaking up our field, we’re facing a major shift—one that challenges the very foundation of global health and development.
These changes will reshape the way aid is delivered, but they cannot undo the progress we’ve made. The training we provided, the partnerships we built, and the lives we touched will continue to shape stronger, healthier communities for years to come.
Now, more than ever, we must honor this work and the people behind it. Today, we take a moment to reflect and recognize the dedication, expertise, and passion that made this work possible. Tomorrow, we rise.
We rise with our colleagues, partners, and the communities we serve. We stand firm in our shared commitment to health, rights, and dignity for all.
This moment demands that we reimagine and rebuild a more resilient, equitable development ecosystem—one that is community-driven, locally led, and shaped by the voices and priorities of those it serves.
It calls on us to invest in sustainable solutions by shifting power and resources to local organizations that have long led change. It compels us to foster inclusive, responsive partnerships rooted in the firsthand expertise of those directly impacted.
The work we do together is greater than any single project, funding cycle, organization, donor, or government. It is a collective commitment to progress that cannot be undone. It lives on in the knowledge we’ve shared, the partnerships we’ve developed, and the resilience of the people and communities who drive change each and every day.
Together, we move forward. Together, we continue to make a difference. And together, we create a more just and inclusive future—one that strengthens local leadership, shifts power, and secures reproductive health and rights for generations to come.