The U.S. Agency for International Development saw a record-breaking obligation to local contractors in 2022 — nearly two years after its administrator, Samantha Power, laid out her plan of allocating a quarter of the agency’s money to local partners.
Since Power set her targets, Devex has covered extensively how USAID has fared against them, by looking at the portion of its total obligation that goes to local recipients in low- and middle-income countries.
By local, we mean those organizations implementing projects in their own countries. This has been our guiding definition, starting some time before USAID decided how it would define local.