The U.S. Agency for International Development has a new strategy to help partner countries achieve “self-reliance.” Part of that involves addressing the concentration of the agency’s spending with a “relatively small circle of large organizations,” as the strategy describes it, which includes some of the biggest international development organizations in the industry.
But which organizations are these, just how concentrated is USAID’s spending with them — and to what extent has that started to change?
Devex analyzed five years of U.S. government spending data to find out.