To build more effective and impactful partnerships, we need to understand what is working and why. 

The Lab is thinking critically about partnerships and their effectiveness, and we are integrating our data-driven findings into a range of private sector engagement tools and resources to support USAID and our partners from the development community and private sector to engage strategically for greater development impact.

The Center for Transformational Partnerships is helping USAID better understand how partnerships with the private sector can create sustainable development impact through research, collecting data and evaluating impact. 

We are committed to sharing our findings and developing tools and resources to support USAID and our partners from the development community and private sector to engage strategically for greater development impact.

Reports

• USAID Partners: Private Sector Engagement focuses on the many ways that USAID engages companies to address the underlying causes of extreme poverty by highlighting partnerships across several sectors.
• Partnering for Impact: USAID and the Private Sector highlights some of our most innovative and impactful partnerships from across USAID Bureaus and Missions.
• Local Private Sector Partnerships: Assessing the State of Practice is the first broad assessment of the state of practice in USAID’s local private sector partnerships.
• The Local Private Sector Partnerships Executive Summary provides an overview of the unique value of local private sector partners.
• Global Challenges, Local Partners examines individual local private sector partnership examples. 
• The Brookings Institution’s USAID's Public-Private Partnerships: A data picture and review of business engagement analyzes USAID’s data to draw conclusions on the nature of PPPs, the level of business sector engagement, and corporate perspectives on partnership with USAID.
• Understanding Private Sector Value: A Primer on How USAID Values Its Partnerships, (Re)Valuing Public Private Alliances examines how the Agency defines and captures the value of partnering with the private sector.
• Evaluating Global Development Alliances: an Analysis of USAID’s Public Private Partnerships for Development analyzes the private sector’s role in driving economic growth, and the value and impact of the GDA model.
• USAID and Diaspora: Partners in Development examines the growing importance of diaspora in achieving USAID's development objectives. 
• Accelerating Entrepreneurs: Insights from USAID's Support for Small and Growing Businesses, an analysis of the Partnering to Accelerate Entrepreneurship (PACE) Initiative, aims to inform the decisions of public funders, private investors and policymakers who are interested in working with intermediaries in entrepreneurial ecosystems. 

Other Resources

• Our Public-Private Partnerships Database includes Agency data on public-private partnerships that have been supported by USAID. 
• The USAID and the Private Sector: 2016 Partnerships at a Glance is a visual representation of the partnerships active in FY16. View FY15 Partnerships here. 
• The Development Experience Clearinghouse is the largest online resource for USAID-funded technical and project materials for international development.
• A joint initiative between Devex, USAID and top international organizations and private industry leaders, Devex Impact is an online resource at the intersection of business and global development, through which companies, donors, recipient governments, implementers, NGOs, and professionals connect to find practical information they need to make an impact.

For more resources and information about our approach to partnership and opportunities to work with USAID, please visit our resources page.