USAID's Public-Private Partnerships: A Data Picture and Review of Business Engagement

Abstract

The paper is divided into five sections. Section I is a consolidation of the principal data and findings of the research. Section II provides an in-depth “data picture” of USAID PPP s drawn from quantitative analysis of the USAID PPP data set and is primarily descriptive of PPP s to date. Section III moves beyond description and provides analysis of PPP s and business sector alignment. It contains the results of coding certain relevant fields in the data set to mine for information on the presence of business partners, commercial interests (i.e., shared value), and business sector partner expertise in PPPs. Section IV summarizes findings from a series of interviews of corporate executives on partnering with USAID . Section V presents recommendations for USAID ’s partnership-making.