What is the Global Development Alliance (GDA)?
The Global Development Alliance (GDA) is USAID’s response to the new reality of development assistance that recognizes that flows between the developed world and the developing world have changed. GDA brings together the public and private sectors to have greater impact by combining the interests and capabilities unique to each. In the 1970s, 70 percent of the resource flows from the United States to the developing world came from official development assistance and 30 percent was from the private sector. Today, 85 percent of resource flows from the United States to the developing world are private and 15 percent are public. These changes in flows reflect the emergence of the private for-profit sector and the non-governmental sector as significant participants in the development process. The Global Development Alliance approach responds to this changed environment, and extends USAID’s reach and effectiveness in meeting development objectives by combining its strengths with the resource
