OECD: Private Sector Engagement for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the DAC

"Member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) are increasingly developing partnerships with the private sector to leverage private capital, expertise, innovation and core business to benefit sustainable development. To learn from this experience and complement DAC peer reviews, the DAC introduced an in-depth, thematic peer learning review on working with and through the private sector. The review aims to identify good practice and lessons in private sector engagement. 

The review was launched in April 2015 and included: 

• A survey of all 29 DAC members and selected non-members to take stock of and better understand current priorities and practices 

• Four DAC member country reviews, and 

• A series of events such as workshops on innovative mechanisms for private sector engagement and additionality. 

The full peer learning report offers a wide range of lessons. It looks at politics, policies and institutions, the focus and delivery of private sector engagements, private sector engagement portfolios, effective partnerships, and thematic issues including risk, leverage and ensuring results. This synthesis report highlights 15 elements of good practice emerging from the review. Examples have been drawn from DAC members to illustrate good practice in action."

Publisher: OCDE, 2016

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