Tài liệu The engine of development: The private sector and prosperity may 2011

The engine of development: The private sector and prosperity may2011
UK aid is about generating opportunity and prosperity for poor people in
developing countries.
This document sets out how we intend to put the private sector centre-stage in
doing this.
Our new approach to working with the private sector is about us doing more with
and for private enterprise, extending this work in new areas, and doing it better.
We want private sector thinking to become as much part of DFID’s DNA as our work
with charities and governments.
The new approach will deliver results for poor people: better job opportunities
and incomes; more readily available and affordable finance for households and
small businesses; and more accessible, better quality healthcare, schooling and basic
services.
The approach will back interventions with potential to transform the business
environment; reducing barriers, costs and risks of doing business, expanding
markets and trade, boosting energy availability, and strengthening transport and
communications. At the same time, we’ll strive to expand the business environment
by stimulating private investment in places presently shunned by commercial
investors – through a revitalised CDC and through existing and new international
organisations.
Our development priorities will permeate all our work with the private sector.
An absolute commitment to poverty reduction. Empowering girls and women.
Fighting and coping with climate change. Helping recovery from conflict and natural
disasters. Greater transparency. More use of evidence and independent evaluation.
We believe the approach will be good for development and good for the UK.
Fostering private sector growth in developing countries will help them become more
attractive trading partners for the UK and better able to deal with disasters, disease
and environmental degradation.
This document is not a blueprint for our future work. We are learning, and want to
learn more, about how best to encourage the dynamism of private enterprise as an
engine of development and poverty reduction.

Headline Results
We will:
ã Help more than 50 million people to access savings, credit and insurance
ã Help half the countries in Africa benefit from freer trade
ã Secure the right to land and property for more than six million people
ã Support jobs and opportunities to generate income for more than
ten million people
Of these results, our focus on women and girls will specifically target access to
finance for 18 million women and opportunities and secure access to land for
4.5 million women.


Index
Foreword by the Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for 4
International Development
WHY we work with the private sector 6
HOW we work with the private sector 8
Our approach 8
Our principles 9
WHAT results will DFID work with the private sector to deliver 12
for poor people?
Creating jobs, opportunities and incomes 12
Finance for people and small enterprises 13
Healthcare, schooling and basic services 15
WHAT results will transform the environment for business
and investment? 18
Reducing barriers, costs and risks of doing business 18
Development priority: Building resilience in fragile and conflict-affected states 19
Expanding markets and trade 20
Development priority: Expanding women’s economic choices 22
Development priority: Combating climate change 23
Energy, transport and communications 24
Pioneering and stimulating investment 26
The engine of development 28
UK Government schemes for business 30
Abbreviations 32
References 32