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  "ledger": "Kwetchi Intelligence - The Kwetchi",
  "doctrine": {
    "announced_vs_disbursed": "The two amounts never merge. An announcement is recorded as an announcement; only evidence of arrival fills 'disbursed'.",
    "source_families": ["Official aid", "Philanthropy", "Diaspora", "AI & data capital", "Mixed / other"],
    "themes_are_not_sources": "Climate, education, health are themes, never source families. No double counting.",
    "statuses": {
      "SOURCED": "Verified against its archived facsimile.",
      "SPECIMEN": "Illustrative scale, printed only with the SPECIMEN label.",
      "REVISED": "A sourced entry later corrected; the revision note says what changed."
    }
  },
  "updated": "2026-08-08",
  "vault": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zXvEMkGEZ7CbM1ulrG7MvY97AZh1iGYO",
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      "id": "KW-2026-W35-01",
      "brief": "001",
      "date_of_fact": "2025-03-10",
      "source_family": "Official aid",
      "funder": "United States · USAID (Dept. of State)",
      "recipient_scope": "Africa · continent-wide",
      "theme": "Development programmes",
      "announced_usd_m": null,
      "disbursed_usd_m": null,
      "status": "SOURCED",
      "quote": "After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.",
      "source": "@marcorubio · X · 10 March 2025",
      "mark": "¶1",
      "facsimile_file": "P1-rubio-statement-2025-03-10.pdf",
      "drive_link": null,
      "sha256": null,
      "archived_on": null,
      "notes": "The Cut · 83% of programmes = 5,200 contracts cancelled."
    },
    {
      "id": "KW-2026-W35-02",
      "brief": "001",
      "date_of_fact": "2025-07-01",
      "source_family": "Official aid",
      "funder": "United States · Department of State",
      "recipient_scope": "Africa · continent-wide",
      "theme": "Agency closure",
      "announced_usd_m": null,
      "disbursed_usd_m": null,
      "status": "SOURCED",
      "quote": "As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance.",
      "source": "M. Rubio · \"Making Foreign Aid Great Again\" · 1 July 2025",
      "mark": "¶2",
      "facsimile_file": "P2-state-dept-2025-07-01.pdf",
      "drive_link": null,
      "sha256": null,
      "archived_on": null,
      "notes": "The Closure · $165 billion in outlays since 1991; remaining programmes to State."
    },
    {
      "id": "KW-2026-W35-03",
      "brief": "001",
      "date_of_fact": "2026-02-01",
      "source_family": "Official aid",
      "funder": "OECD DAC donors",
      "recipient_scope": "Global · Sub-Saharan Africa",
      "theme": "Official development assistance",
      "announced_usd_m": null,
      "disbursed_usd_m": null,
      "status": "SOURCED",
      "quote": "Global ODA fell 23% in 2025; flows to sub-Saharan Africa fell 26%; a further 11.6% decline is projected for 2026.",
      "source": "OECD · aid statistics",
      "mark": "¶3",
      "facsimile_file": "P3-oecd-oda-2025.pdf",
      "drive_link": null,
      "sha256": null,
      "archived_on": null,
      "notes": "The Gap · the figures behind the site's table."
    },
    {
      "id": "KW-2026-W35-04",
      "brief": "001",
      "date_of_fact": "2025-01-01",
      "source_family": "Mixed / other",
      "funder": "PEPFAR (United States) · peer-reviewed synthesis",
      "recipient_scope": "Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe",
      "theme": "HIV treatment continuity",
      "announced_usd_m": null,
      "disbursed_usd_m": null,
      "status": "SOURCED",
      "quote": "[Terminated PEPFAR funding components] affected facilities providing daily antiretroviral treatment to more than 222,000 patients across Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.",
      "source": "Kulohoma, B.W. & Wesonga, C.A. · Frontiers in Public Health · 2025 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1658229",
      "mark": "¶4",
      "facsimile_file": null,
      "drive_link": null,
      "sha256": null,
      "archived_on": null,
      "notes": "The Human Cost · PEPFAR disruption and the HIV response; cites Rwanda/Botswana/Cape Verde domestic-financing models as the working alternatives. Sourced to DOI; facsimile capture pending."
    }
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