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USAID Policy Framework - 2011-2015
Last year marked a watershed for international development policy in
the United States. In May 2010, President Obama issued a National
Security Strategy that recognized development as a central pillar of
our national security capacity. In September 2010, through the firstever
Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development (PPD-6),
the President outlined high-level principles to guide our international
development policy and called for a new approach to how we plan
and implement development assistance. In December, Secretary of
State Clinton issued the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development
Review (QDDR), an unprecedented joint review of the mandates
and capabilities of the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID), to ensure that these core elements of American civilian power work more effectively
and in tandem to advance U.S. interests at home and abroad.
This document, the USAID Policy Framework 2011-2015 (pdf, 898kb), is the first in what will become a
regular strategic exercise every four years, closely tracking the QDDR cycle. Its purpose is to
provide our staff and partners worldwide with a clear sense of our core development priorities,
translate the PPD-6 and the QDDR (as well as future iterations of the QDDR and relevant
Presidential directives) into more detailed operational principles, and explain how we will apply
these principles across our entire portfolio. The Framework also lays out the agenda for institutional
reform known as USAID Forward, which is preparing the Agency to respond to the
development challenges of the coming decades.
The Policy Framework (pdf, 898kb) was prepared through extensive consultations in Washington and with our
field missions, taking advantage of the viewpoints and experiences of our diverse and experienced
workforce. This process provided the Agency with valuable space to think strategically
about our objectives and how to achieve them. My hope is that this document will encourage
and inspire our missions and partners around the world to focus relentlessly on achieving and
measuring development impact, which is especially important in an environment where we must
generate more results out of every dollar we spend.
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