Atul Gawande, the head of USAID’s global health bureau, is pushing his staff to exceed agency Administrator Samantha Power’s local funding target.
In 2021 Power announced that 25% of USAID’s funding should go to local organizations by 2025. Gawande said Thursday that his bureau is already at 20% local funding, and he wants it to hit 30% by Power’s deadline.
USAID’s global health bureau got a head start on localization due to its management of significant funding from PEPFAR, the U.S. global HIV initiative.
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Michael Igoe@AlterIgoe
Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.
