Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§9655 Engagement with Investors

Title 22 › CHAPTER 103 — BETTER UTILIZATION OF INVESTMENTS LEADING TO DEVELOPMENT › SUBCHAPTER IV — MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND REPORTING › § 9655

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Corporation, through its Chief Development Officer, must work with USAID to build strategic partnerships with private companies to bring business investment into developing countries. It must lower business risks, help structure deals, create tools and intermediaries to bring private money at scale, and focus on projects that help the poorest and most fragile places, including countries with extreme poverty, weak institutions, or a history of violence. It must follow U.S. policy in section 9611 and USAID’s strategic plans. To do this, the Corporation must make risk-mitigation tools, support blended-finance deal structures, back intermediaries, coordinate with other federal agencies, bring together investors and donors, offer planning and training, partner with capital providers, and find and screen new investment partners. It must coordinate with USAID and other agencies when projects include technical assistance.

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Title 22, §9655

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general

The Corporation, acting through the Chief Development Officer, shall, in cooperation with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development—

(1)develop a strategic relationship with private sector entities focused at the nexus of business opportunities and development priorities;

(2)engage such entities and reduce business risks primarily through direct transaction support and facilitating investment partnerships;

(3)develop and support tools, approaches, and intermediaries that can mobilize private finance at scale in the developing world;

(4)pursue highly developmental projects of all sizes, especially those that are small but designed for work in the most underdeveloped areas, including countries with chronic suffering as a result of extreme poverty, fragile institutions, or a history of violence; and

(5)pursue projects consistent with the policy of the United States described in section 9611 of this title and the Joint Strategic Plan and the Mission Country Development Cooperation Strategies of the United States Agency for International Development.

(b)Assistance

To achieve the goals described in subsection (a), the Corporation shall—

(1)develop risk mitigation tools;

(2)provide transaction structuring support for blended finance models;

(3)support intermediaries linking capital supply and demand;

(4)coordinate with other Federal agencies to support or accelerate transactions;

(5)convene financial, donor, civil society, and public sector partners around opportunities for private finance within development priorities;

(6)offer strategic planning and programming assistance to catalyze investment into priority sectors;

(7)provide transaction structuring support;

(8)deliver training and knowledge management tools for engaging private investors;

(9)partner with private sector entities that provide access to capital and expertise; and

(10)identify and screen new investment partners.

(c)Technical assistance

The Corporation shall coordinate with the United States Agency for International Development and other agencies and departments, as necessary, on projects and programs supported by the Corporation that include technical assistance.

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22 U.S.C. § 9655

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110