Says the entire international development community needs to interrogate the power dynamics of donor-driven development.
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BREAKING: Samantha Power says @USAID will direct "at least a quarter" of the agency's funding to local partners over the next 5 years.
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@USAID mission will have a foreign service officer focused on inclusive development, marginalized groups.Show this thread -
Power to establish a new
@USAID office for behavioral science, reporting to an elevated chief economist.Show this thread -
Power announces new
@USAID infectious disease emergency response unit. Unclear how this fits in with previous proposals for@StateDept to lead on pandemic preparedness/response.Show this thread -
Power has targeted "localization" as a priority since before taking office as
@USAID administrator.https://www.devex.com/news/is-samantha-power-taking-on-the-aid-establishment-100481 …Show this thread -
Power has brought back former
@USAID deputy administrator Don Steinberg (who served under Shah) to lead on the localization agenda.Show this thread -
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@USAID looks to learn from past challenges on this front, will be important to watch how large INGOs position themselves as well. Allies? Opponents? See:https://www.devex.com/news/q-a-can-large-ngos-lead-a-development-transformation-101712 …Show this thread -
Power says she has spent last 6 months trying to understand how predecessors' past efforts have not moved the needle more on local funding, including through convos with former administrators.
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How do we incentivize prime contractors/grantees to not only dispense subcontracts/grants to local partners, but also mentor them to become primes next time, Power asks. I think
@USAID already does this, no?Show this thread
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Cue the cringey lobbying campaign by the big development orgs.
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Perhaps more helpfully, a good time to revisit Natsios' classic on the counter-bureacracy,https://www.cgdev.org/publication/clash-counter-bureaucracy-and-development …
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