INCLUSIVE, SUSTAINED, AND RESILIENT ECONOMIC GROWTH
Economic growth is critical for countries to plan, finance, and implement solutions to solve their own development challenges. In line with the U.S. National Security Strategy, USAID can play a catalytic role in promoting private-sector-led economic growth, helping the countries where we work become even better trading and security partners. Our new Economic Growth Policy advances the commitment of USAID and the broader U.S. Government to promoting inclusive, sustained, and resilient economic growth in developing countries.
PROPEL SUCCESS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS, LEARNING, AND EVIDENCE
USAID will strengthen and diversify our partnerships to help developing countries achieve inclusive, sustained, and resilient growth. We will work with international and local public, private, educational, faith-based, and civil-society organizations to support enterprise-driven development. Enterprise-driven development recognizes the value of private-sector engagement, while also reaching beyond traditional contracting and grantmaking models — to collaborate, co-finance, and co-design programs, tools and initiatives.
Successful economic-growth programming will be strengthened by building upon existing strategies and guidance documents including: