Alliance Assessment and Strategy for USAID/South Africa

In October 2010, SSG Advisors completed an Alliance Assessment and Strategy for USAID South Africa. The principal focus of this alliance assessment and strategy is twofold: 1) to explore the development of public-private alliances that intersect with USAID/South Africa priority program areas and the key interests of the private sector in the region, and 2) to provide management options for the Mission as it pursues a more strategic approach to alliance building (the management section has been removed from this document before being released to the public).The assessment and strategy are designed to help USAID to direct partnership efforts away from discrete individual, short-term activities to partnerships which are strategic and obtain long-term systemic and sustainable program impacts in the sectors where USAID currently works. The assessment team met with business leaders from manufacturing, retail, the extractives industry, IT, business services, insurance, agribusiness, and health care in order to canvas the private sector to analyze the interests, challenges, and issues that intersect with the Mission’s priority development goals. The overall objective of this component was to identify potential areas or themes that would be ripe for collaboration and partnership between USAID and the private sector. The full public report is available for download below.