USAID funding cuts have 'massive' impact on Irish NGOs

RTÉ News ^ | Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 10:13 | Jackie Fox

[Olog-hai]

USAID funding cuts have had a devastating impact on Irish aid agencies working in developing countries, according to documents seen by RTÉ News.

The documents also reveal the cloud of uncertainty that has overshadowed Irish non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the days and weeks following US President Donald Trump’s executive order to freeze and terminate foreign aid funding. […]

Hundreds of redundancies have been reported across the Irish aid agency sector and development projects in countries such as Sierra Leone, Somalia and Syria have been significantly affected.

GOAL and Concern were the largest recipients of US government funding, with annual income of €103 million and €58.3 million from USAID respectively. Trócaire received €1.38m from USAID and Self Help Africa received €308,000.

According to the documents, GOAL’s Turkey-Syria program was most impacted as 85% of it is funded by USAID.

Trócaire had USAID grants in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Honduras and Malawi, and the largest impacts have been felt by several of their local partners, some of whom are up to 80% funded by USAID or UN programs funded by USAID.

As a result of the funding freeze, Self Help Africa decided to pull its services out of three African countries by the end of the year.

Concern confirmed that it has lost over €20 million in funding from the US government. …

[Olog-hai]

More sob stories about bogus charities that keep African nations down and dependent.

JFTR, “redundancies” here mean either layoffs or firings. Trócaire is the Irish Gaelic word for “mercy”.

[Ann Archy]

GOOD!! IRISH NGOs???? OMG! STOP THIS CRAP!

[laconic]

If they are Irish NGOs why don’t the Irish fund them?

[lefty-lie-spy]

Don’t care. If Ireland wants to continue that crap, they need to embrace MIGA policies and do it on their own. USAID and all similar agencies and graft and corruption pipelines need to all be killed regardless of the results. If they need to be rebuilt in some way for a very good reason, start it from the ground up with much tighter oversight and much less resources and Human Resources. Ideally, any charity could be run by one single person that reviews requests and approves or denies them, thereby improving oversight.

[RoosterRedux]

Musk said that Soros hacked the State Department using NGO's to fund his political interests around the world and to reward politicians and bureaucrats who were doing his bidding. Musk explained that this was a scheme in which Soros would invest, say, $10 million in NGOs and then get them funded with billion$, probably even recouping his original money.

Elon implied that criminal charges will be forthcoming.

[DAC21]

American taxpayers paying for Irish NGO’s. Sickening. Well the fat cats skimming the money best learn how to code. Oops, I forgot AI is killing the programming jobs. Maybe they can learn to be tip stealing waitresses. AOC is available for classes.

[MMusson]

Borrowing our Grandkids future to send money to Irish NGO’s.
No words.

[SmokingJoe]

GOOD!
Why on earth should American tax payers pay for Irish NGO’s?
Let the Irish tax payers pay for their own NGO’s.

[quantim]

“GOAL’s Turkey-Syria program was most impacted”

Good chance that this was one of the NGO’s that brought countless violent muzzies to Ireland and ruined that place too.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Released under Freedom of Information, emails and briefing notes show how the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) kept in contact with Ireland’s aid agencies as tens of millions of euro in funding appeared to essentially disappear.

That's an interesting sentence. So Ireland's "state department" had the same problems with their NGOs as the US State Department with USAID: foreign aid money disappeared into a black hole and could not be accounted for.

[Adder]

Why the hell are we paying IRISH NGO’s anything?!

If they are so vital let the Irish pay them.

DOGE has been a real eye opener!

Those in the streets opposing it are numb and dumb.

[Palio di Siena]

Samantha Power - remember her?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I can see America being forced by the UN to buy food and all the wonderful necessities of life for the Africans freeloaders because they won’t do anything for themselves but why are we supporting the Irish? That doesn’t make sense.

[dblshot]

Never understood how an organization funded by the government is an NGO. Orwell was right on, Big Brother defines the language. If he does not like your take, we are in Fahrenheit 451 territory.

[rxh4n1]

“If they are Irish NGOs why don’t the Irish fund them?”

There ya go. By world standards Ireland is relatively wealthy. Let them pay for it.

[FreedomPoster]

Hopefully this was funding shipping middle easterner Muslims into Ireland and this stops now.

[Enterprise]

USAID to Irish NGOs? Faith and begorrah! There went the pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow!

[Liz]

USAID funding cuts have ‘massive’ impact on Irish NGOs,
FReeper Ann Archy helpfully posted

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Irish aid projects in Sierra Leone, Somalia and Syria have been significantly affected.
<><>”GOAL” and “Concern” were the largest recipients of US tax dollars
<><>with annual tax dollars of €103 million and €58.3 million from USAID respectively.
<><>”Trócaire” received €1.38m from USAID
<><>”Self Help Africa” received €308,000 US tax dollars.
<><>GOAL’s Turkey-Syria program was most impacted as 85% of it is funded by USAID.
<><>”Trócaire” had USAID grants in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Honduras and Malawi
<><>largest impacts have been felt by local partners,
<><>some locals are up to 80% funded by USAID or UN programs funded by USAID.
<><>”Self Help Africa” decided to pull its services out of three African countries
<><>”Concern” confirmed that it has lost over €20 million in tax dollar funding from the US govt. …
<><>(Excerpt) Read more at rte.ie ...

[ansel12]

I share that reaction, this is bizzarro world stuff.

[Lurker]

Don’t care.

L