Additional Context: This information is based on 150 semi-structured interviews conducted by One Earth Partners across five countries selected to represent the diversity of USAID's environmental work. Interview findings were triangulated with a global survey of 175 respondents and external media analysis.

In Peru, One Earth Partners reports that aid-skeptical detractors used this moment to claim that local organizations had mismanaged funds, and to lend strength to their legislative agenda to restrict scope and methods of NGO work in the country. The abrupt, uncommunicative nature of the stop-work orders forced local implementers to break signed agreements and promises with local communities without clear information on the motivation. As such, in some cases, they viewed the withdrawal as a direct betrayal by the local NGO itself.

Source: One Earth Partners (Full report forthcoming).