Country Ownership

I want to discuss country ownership in US development activities. Let’s take the case of El Salvador. As you may have heard, El Salvador has the highest homicide rate in the world right now. But what you may not know is that El Salvador is also home to the largest locally-led public-private pa...

When you think of Liberia over the past two years, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably not a hydropower plant.

“Country ownership” has become a buzzword in the development community, but what does it really mean?  A country ownership approach has multiple interpretations to different actors, within different sectors, and for different countries. It’s time to unpack this rhetoric and br...