USAID officials used the agency’s quarterly business forecast call with suppliers on Dec. 7 to present a 14-point structure that the agency will use to track one of its key localization targets: A commitment to have 50% of programs be locally led by 2030.
This target is less well-known than the promise to have 25% of eligible funding go to locally led organizations by 2025, though it was announced by the agency’s Administrator Samantha Power at the same time. Power and other senior figures within the agency have said they think local leadership is as, or more, important than local funding, and many leaders within the localization movement have said the same.
In practice, it means that local leaders should set priorities, say what should be done and how it should be done, define which results constitute success, and say how those results should be measured.