USAID has reported on its progress toward directing 25% of eligible funding to local entities. To shift power and funding to local actors, we think it should narrow it’s definition of local, and broaden its definition of eligible funding: https://t.co/UjfYOLDmUA
#Localization
USAID wants 25% of its funding to go to local partners by 2025. But research from @aidtransparency finds that @USAID’s measurement approach overestimates the % of funding counted as local meaning that local partners could miss out on over a billion dollars each year. Thread 1/10
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