A lot was at stake in USAID’s new acquisition and assistance master plan.
The strategy — A&A in popular parlance — was finally released earlier this month. It is viewed as very important by USAID’s partners because it is the blueprint for how the agency gives grants and awards contracts and the way it spends more than 85% of its funding.
The document offers the clearest signal yet of how Administrator Samantha Power wants to run the agency. And even more substantially, it provides the most concrete foundation for how the agency plans to deliver on Power’s big vision for localization.