The U.S. Agency for International Development is inching closer to its self-imposed deadline for one of its key localization goals — that by 2025, 25% of its funding would go to local partners.
While the definition of what local entails or how it should be measured varies among organizations that track USAID’s progress, many seem to arrive at the conclusion that it would take a Herculean effort for the agency to meet its target.
In this article, as with our previous analyses, we count a supplier as local if they operate within the same country as the activities they are implementing.