Donors have promised for a decade to channel funding directly to local organizations. The share that actually arrives remains, by most estimates, in the low single digits.
Every percentage point moved is overhead saved, access gained, and durability bought. A national organization like ALDO reaches communities that outside actors cannot, and it stays after the project ends because it is of the place, not visiting it.
ALDO's ask to the funding community is simple: audit us, then trust the arithmetic. Localization becomes real one grant, one reference, one delivered result at a time.
