Territorial, unethical, and predatory; reliable, cooperative, and respectful.
Those were just a few of the words sub-awardees used to describe the prime organizations they had partnered with, according to a new analysis from Unlock Aid — an advocacy group focused on foreign assistance reform. For years, Unlock Aid has pushed to localize development funding, working with its own network to fight for change on Capitol Hill.
“A lot of the challenges that people describe in this survey are those that for a long time, people have anecdotally heard,” said Walter Kerr, Unlock Aid’s co-founder. “This was really our effort to put data behind some of the challenges that are commonly expressed.”