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USAID’s localization progress: encouraging steps, but measurement challenges remain

By Gary Forster and Sally Paxton | Jan 22, 2025 | Blog

We’ve been tracking USAID’s localization journey since Administrator Samantha Power first announced the agency’s intention to provide 25% of its funding to local organizations in 2021. Our work has focused on the issue of how much money is actually channelled directly to local organizations. In this article, we reflect on USAID’s new FY 2024 localization progress report, highlighting where USAID is leading the way, identifying areas that still need attention, and looking ahead to what’s next.

Most donors are not matching their local funding pledges with action

By Henry Lewis | Dec 17, 2024 | Blog, News

Many bilateral donors have signed up to international agreements to take a more locally led approach and transfer a greater share of resources to local partners. But our new study finds that many of the same donors are not sharing any practical evidence of increased local funding. Commitments Without Accountability highlights that four out of five donors do not have localisation strategies or clear definitions, targets, or methods for measuring progress in funding shifts.

A common thread for scaling development finance: transparency

By Sally Paxton and Guest | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog

Following the World Bank Annual Meetings, and amidst negotiations for the replenishment of the International Development Association, Sally Paxton and Nancy Lee sift through some of the issues holding back the scaling of public and private resources. They find a common thread – transparency – and argue that multilateral development banks should be using the power of their own data to help fill the information gaps that stand in the way of progress.

Watch now – What we don’t know can hurt us: Better measurement and disclosure of MDB private finance mobilisation data

By Sam Cavenett | Oct 24, 2024 | Events

Catch up on our event discussing our recommendations to strengthen mobilisation measurement and disclosure, and the challenges that need to be resolved in order to make and track more mobilisation progress.

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