WASHINGTON — It has been 18 months since the U.S. Agency for International Development first unveiled the metrics that guide Administrator Mark Green’s vision of the “journey to self-reliance.” Now, USAID is offering more details about what this means for its country partnerships and how the agency’s reorganization is proceeding in order to put those metrics to use.
“We have literally plotted the development spectrum,” said Chris Maloney, assistant to the administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning, at the Center for Global Development in Washington on Wednesday.
“As development professionals, we all talk about the development spectrum. We all talk about the fact that we know Somalia is not the same as Georgia. But have we actually tried to objectively measure it and put a stake in the ground for what that means? And that’s why I think this is really profound,” he said.