The U.S. Agency for International Development has pushed hard to achieve its goal of channeling a quarter of eligible funding toward localization. Even though it is not even halfway to its target, USAID has made significant moves and initiatives that aim to improve local partnerships.
To cap off our analysis of USAID’s assistance and acquisition, or A&A, spending in the fiscal year ending September 2024, we turned our attention to the portion of the money transferred from prime awardees to smaller organizations through subawards.
The Office of Management and Budget defines a subaward as “an award provided by a pass-through entity to a subrecipient for the subrecipient to carry out part of a Federal award received by the pass-through entity.”