One year after USAID reduced foreign aid, development groups in the Philippines are experiencing job losses and project cancellations. The cuts continue to impact vulnerable communities in the region.

A year after Washington froze and then slashed foreign aid, development workers in the Philippines and across the region say the damage is still being felt, with job losses and abandoned projects continuing to threaten some of Asia’s most vulnerable groups. “On a personal level, it was the loss of income. But we lost a lot of critical projects in the country,” Sharon*, a former country representative for a US-based organisation overseeing these projects in the Philippines, said in an...