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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: The founding of USAID
Description: On 3 November 1961, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was founded, bringing all existing aid work under one single agency.
A key proponent of it was Barbara Ward, a pioneering British economist and journalist who had the ear of presidents and prime ministers across the world.
Later known as Baroness Jackson, she spoke to the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Oral History Program in 1964 about how the newly independent West African nation of Ghana was one of the first countries to benefit with funds to construct the Volta River Project.
Surya Elango listens back to those...