Private Sector Engagement Policy
This policy is a call to action for USAID staff and its partners to embrace market-based approaches as a more sustainable way to support communities in achieving development and humanitarian outcomes at scale.
The purpose of the policy is to accomplish the following:
- Set forth the vision and operating principles that will guide and advance USAID’s engagement with the private sector, with an emphasis on promoting U.S. economic growth
- Illustrate ways USAID can consistently and comprehensively integrate private-sector engagement into the Agency’s operating model and programming across sectors
- Clarify and harmonize concepts, terminology, and definitions
Included are the following sections:
- What Is Private-Sector Engagement (PSE)?
- The case for PSE
- Value propositions:
- How we engage
- Identifying, assessing, and managing risk

- A Field Guide to Designing a Health Communication Strategy
- CDC’s Guiding Principles for Public-Private Partnerships: A Tool to Support Engagement to Achieve Public Health Goals
- The SBCC Emergency Helix
- Engaging the Private Sector in Maternal and Neonatal Health in Low and Middle Income Countries
- How Businesses Can Invest in Women and Realize Returns
- Transforming the Private Sector to Support Universal Malaria Diagnostic Coverage
- How to Improve Access to Malaria Treatment in the Private Sector [Webinar]
- Models of University Engagement with Practice
- Zika Virus Global Emergency Response Plan
- Reducing HIV Stigma and Discrimination: A Critical Part of National AIDS Programmes
March 25, 2019