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