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This week Devex reported that the https://www.devex.com/organizations/united-states-agency-for-international-development-usaid-45096 saw a record-breaking obligation to local contractors in 2022, https://www.devex.com/news/how-usaid-funding-for-local-contractors-increased-by-169-8-in-2022-105966. While this is promising, it will be vital to ensure that initiatives are not tokenistic and that localization efforts are indeed meeting the needs of the communities they are aiming to serve rather than ticking development boxes. In the United Kingdom, the https://www.devex.com/organizations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office-fcdo-158082 https://www.devex.com/news/thousands-will-die-from-ongoing-aid-cuts-uk-government-admits-106008 that thousands of people “in acute humanitarian need” will die unnecessarily from hunger, poor health care, and during pregnancy because of ongoing aid cuts. At the World Bank, Ajay Banga received some backlash from employees as he announced that while he would like to maintain a f