Matt Ripley

Matt specialises in designing, delivering and evaluating inclusive growth initiatives. He is a freelance consultant working with multinationals, investors, social enterprises and international development projects to drive a double bottom line of impact and business value. Matt has over a decade of experience leading large teams and global programmes, including as agriculture portfolio lead for a flagship market systems programme in Nepal, and leading a market systems innovation project at the ILO. He has written extensively about strategies and tactics to help organisations shift from an excessive emphasis on accountability-focused data collection towards leaner decision-focused data use.

Contributions

Blogs

• Goodbye market systems, we hardly knew you at all [2022]
• Should we create decent work or make work more decent? Demystifying what decent work means for Market System Development projects [2020]
• Analyse that [2019]
• ‘Win-win’ must be more than a buzzword [2018]
• Prove and improve: adapting M&E to better support business growth and project learning in MSD [2018]
• Market facilitation: play the game to see how good you are! [2017]
• The politics of evidence: a practitioner's perspective [2016]
• Analyse this: getting better at understanding how market systems work [2016]
• In market systems, all you need is jobs? [2014]

Resources

• A rough guide to measuring job quality in market systems development [2023]
• A market systems approach to skills development [2022]
• Bridging the gap: unlocking synergies between private sector development and development finance [2022]
• 'How to' measure job quality in value chain development projects [2021]
• Le développement des chaînes de valeur au service du travail décent [2021]
• Value chain development for decent work [2021]
• Getting beyond tier 1 [2020]
• Promoting economic transformation through Business Environment Reform and Market Systems Development [2020]
• Promoting economic transformation through Market Systems Development [2019]
• Market systems resilience [2018]
• Measuring productive employment [2017]
• Sector selection for decent work: tips, tricks and tools [2017]
• Market systems facilitation, how good are you? [2017]
• The science in adaptive management [2016]
• A market systems approach to decent work [2016]
• The Boss Project in Timor-Leste [2015]
• Samarth: Making sense of messiness [2014]