USAID Performance Management Standards For Promoting A Respectful, Safe, Healthy, and Inclusive Work Environment

November 2018

USAID is committed to fostering a respectful, safe, healthy, and inclusive work environment. This includes promoting USAID’s zero tolerance vision for sexual misconduct in any form, including sexual harassment and discrimination, as well as eliminating other toxic behaviors, such as bullying (including cyberbullying), intimidation, incivility, violence, threats, and any other inappropriate or disruptive verbal, nonverbal, or physical behavior.

Performance management plans for USAID staff should reflect, and staff should be held accountable for, achieving these outcomes. This document identifies elements from USAID’s primary performance management systems that pertain to the achievement of such a workplace. Supervisors and employees are encouraged to consider the elements below when developing new performance plans.