During a conference call in March for its latest quarterly business forecast, the U.S. Agency for International Development reaffirmed its localization agenda — a commitment that 25% of its funding will go to local partners by 2025.
However, the most recent figures suggest that the agency's assistance funding to local organizations fell by more than $200 million in the fiscal year ending September 2021.
In fiscal year 2020, USAID allocated $21 billion in funds altogether, with grants and cooperative agreements accounting for between $14 billion and $15 billion. Organizations based in low- and middle-income countries received $1.05 billion of that assistance funding — in other words, between 7 and 8 cents from each dollar — to deliver services domestically.