BARCELONA — Implementing partners are still processing the changes made by the U.S. Agency for International Development to its “Contractor Employee Biographical Data Sheet” but the revised form is expected to help tackle gender equity across the sector.
As of Sept. 9, bidding organizations no longer need to provide historic data on salary and consultancy rates for personnel included on their proposals — information that has previously been thought to perpetuate the gender pay gap.
This revision is just one aspect of wider reform efforts but “is significant because it’s the way we’ve been doing business for 30-plus years,” said Mark Walther, director of acquisition and assistance for USAID’s bureau of management.