This compendium of essays expands on the conversation from a roundtable hosted by the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution on April 5, 2024. The event’s purpose was to generate a discussion on the role of international expertise and international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in a localization frame, a topic mostly absent in considerations of locally led development.
An initial essay by Brookings scholar George Ingram, serving as background for the roundtable, poses three framing questions:
- Is there a role for international expertise and entities in the localization frame, and if so, what is that role?
- Can USAID, other donors, and intermediary organizations create structures and operating dynamics that provide global experience and expertise in ways that respect and support local actors being in control of priority setting, design, and execution?
- In what ways can USAID modify its procurement processes to facilitate participation of local and national Southern organizations?
Because no one observer can represent the diversity of views on locally led development, and in order to broaden the conversation and audience beyond those at the April session, participants in the roundtable were invited to write follow-on commentaries on the topic.
This compendium can be read in its entirety or selectively, depending on the reader’s interest.
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