Co-creation: An Interactive Guide

Co-creation is a design approach that is critical to USAID achieving many of its biggest objectives and priorities. USAID and its partners use co-creation to break down silos that often impede our ability to design, implement, and oversee innovative, impactful, and locally driven development programs. Co-creation is injecting new ideas into USAID’s work and elevating the voices of nontraditional actors and local partners across the program cycle. This interactive guide aims to dispel common co-creation myths and provide inputs critical to designing and managing co-creation successfully. Presented by the Management Bureau, Office of Acquisition & Assistance's Professional Development & Training (PDT) Division, the document leverages many existing co-creation resources while updating content to reflect USAID’s experience. Additional outside literature on co-creation, stakeholder interviews, and research also informed the content this guide presents.