For years, donors have pledged to transfer a greater share of resources to local organizations. But according to a new analysis, only one of the five most prominent donor nations has published the targets, strategies, and evidence to back up those commitments: USAID.
“USAID is the only agency that has set an ambitious target and a clear way to measure it,” said Sally Paxton, the U.S. representative of Publish What You Fund, an organization that advocates for transparency within the aid sector. “The question was: Has anyone else done that? And I think the answer here is, pretty much no.”
PWYF looked at the aid agencies of Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, assessing the publicly available information for each. The report wasn’t meant to compare donors, it stated, but to “show what information is publicly available,” and to illustrate the “different stages of progress” among the agencies.