USAID, the largest bilateral aid agency in the world, has been working hard to transfer more funding and power to a local level. But what has that meant for its recruitment approach?
For one thing, it’s thrown into relief a problem that the agency has been wrestling with for ages. It doesn’t have enough staff, overall, to manage the amount of money it gives away.
The agency’s own administrator, Samantha Power, came out last year to say that the agency has a “staffing crisis” and that addressing this is one of her top priorities.