How Myanmar’s civic space is shrinking after USAID cuts

The funding cuts have had an immediate and devastating effect on groups working across borders

Originally published on Global Voices

A team conducts a larval survey during a comprehensive focus investigation in an elimination area in the village of Thayetchaung in May 2019. Photo by Feliciano Monti, PMI/USAID (CC BY-NC 2.0).

This article by Yoon Mya Lay and Shatjam was originally published on March 5, 2025, on The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar that has been...