Locally Led Development Annual Program Statement (LLD-APS)

This Annual Program Statement (APS) offers USAID Operating Units (“OUs'' also referred to as Missions, Bureaus, and Independent Offices) a mechanism to advance localization, which calls for intentional changes to USAID’s policies, processes, staffing, and funding decisions to support partnerships and programs that equitably empower local actors, strengthen local systems, and facilitate local leadership so that development and humanitarian assistance is more effective and sustainable. It also ...