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Nussle: USAID Award Process Biased Against WOCCU, Smaller Non-Profits

The agency's procurement process is hampering smaller organizations' efforts to access funds to help development abroad, CUNA charges.

U.S. Agency for International Development building, Washington, D.C. U.S. Agency for International Development building, Washington, D.C. (Source: Jer123/Shutterstock)

The procurement process used by the U.S. Agency for International Development remains biased against smaller organizations, hampering efforts by WOCCU and other small non-profits to access funds to help development abroad, CUNA has charged.

“Such organizations can provide USAID with specialized skills, organized networks and a proven track record to support USAID implementation of U.S. foreign assistance,” CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle wrote in a recent letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “However, these U.S. private voluntary and not-for-profit organizations tend to be smaller and more specialized; as such, they face procurement obstacles in the effort to partner with USAID.”

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