Additional Context: Though the State Department's waiver during the foreign assistance review was meant to apply to all lifesaving programs, according to the Women's Refugee Commission, the intersecting categorization of gender-based violence, or GBV, programming with gender programming meant that many programs remained terminated. According to the Women's Refugee Commission's analysis of publicly available information, the two awards saved were a $4 million grant to an international organization in Madagascar and a $500,000 grant to a local organization in Nigeria.

The Women's Refugee Commission examined GBV funding tracked through the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Financial Tracking Service and publicly available information on terminated USAID awards to conduct their analysis.

Source: Women's Refugee Commission