Sec. 3. Sense of Congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— locally led development and humanitarian response is linked to more efficient and sustainable development and humanitarian outcomes, and is vital to building long-term self-reliance; over multiple Administrations, the United States Government has sought to achieve greater development outcomes through stronger local partnerships, including through Country Ownership , The Journey to Self-Reliance , and Locally Led Development ; the relevant foreign assistance agency should increase the proportion of direct funding to local entities, including by increasing the amount of development and humanitarian assistance to such entities; the relevant foreign assistance agency should ensure its programming enables local communities to exercise leadership over priorities, project design, implementation, and measuring and evaluating results of such programs; the relevant foreign assistance agency should ensure most awards, requests for proposals, and requests for applications outline expectations for implementers to elevate local leadership and hold implementers to account for elevating local leadership; working with local partners requires more time, staffing, and flexibility of resources than traditional partners, including extended availability of funds and additional staff resources; and increased flexibility is critical to respond to local priorities and leverage local capacities, including with respect to staffing, availability of funds, program design, and acquisition and assistance processes, among other areas.