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.