Expand the New Partnership Initiative to every bureau and office

What has happened

1. Jun 30, 2026 Partially done

   Achieved in part by a mechanism the Mandate did not name. The New Partnership Initiative was a USAID instrument and ended with the agency on 2025-07-01; Federal Register full text for "New Partnership Initiative" returns 0 documents for the window and no state.gov page carries the name. What the Quote attached to it - driving awards to new, underutilized and local partners across the whole organization - became departmental policy by other means. State's report to Congress on Advancing Locally Led Development and Humanitarian Response sets out three department-wide approaches: government-to-government assistance with performance benchmarks and co-investment, bilateral health memoranda of understanding transferring program ownership to local governments, and $3.8 billion of OCHA-administered pooled funds, all aimed at reducing dependency on large multinational NGOs. `partial` and not `done`: the named initiative is gone, no bureau-by-bureau or mission-by-mission action plans were reset, and the report itself says increasing local participation in program design is something "future efforts could focus on".

   • Report to Congress on Advancing Locally Led Development and Humanitarian Response (SFOAA sec. 7019(e))

     Primary Executive branch Jun 30, 2026

   • State Department: additional $1.8 billion to OCHA pooled funds, bringing the total to $3.8 billion across 21 countries; 13 percent of the first contribution obligated to local partners

     Primary Executive branch May 14, 2026