Introducing our new research program to track USAID funding to local organizations
In November 2021, US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power threw down a challenge for her organization: by 2025, 25% of USAID’s funding would go to local organizations. Her vision was largely applauded as the direction that international aid should be headed. The detail of how to measure this important metric, however, remains an open question. Given our experience with open data sources, we decided to try to develop a replicable methodolog
