USAID revamps the way it engages with overseas development partners
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) does all of its work overseas. It engages with local grantees and contractors to do the work in a particular country. Now USAID is launching a new strategy for what it calls A-and-A, acquisition and assistance. For details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with Paloma Adams-Allen, USAID’s deputy administrator for Management and Resources.
Tom Temin So there is a acquisition, an assistance strategy. Tell us about this. What is it that you need to update? And give us an overall view of what the strategy actually looks like. It seems central