Kelly Saldaña is vice president of systems strengthening and resilience at Abt Associates, where she leads new solutions to integrated, locally driven program design across the company’s global portfolio. Saldaña joined Abt after nearly 20 years at USAID, where she oversaw the agency’s health systems strengthening and capacity-building portfolio and the programming of its $6 billion COVID-19 response.
There are many opportunities for large global development implementers in localization efforts — because even when aid is localized, the basic challenges of development still exist.
