Business Partnerships for Development

The benefits of expanding and strengthening an economy’s private sector are well established. A healthy private sector fosters increased investment, improved productivity, job creation and growth. Creating and sustaining a productive private sector in fragile or conflict-affected areas involves particular challenges and requires concerted leadership and commitment on the part of business leaders, governments and donors. The payoff for addressing these challenges, however, can be significant in terms of expanding economic opportunity, tackling poverty and improving human security, especially where formal private sector enterprises may be few in number and small in size.