BEAM Webinars

BEAM webinars bring practitioners together to discuss topics relevant to the market systems community. We try to alternate webinar times to suit as many time zones as possible. Please contact us with your webinar ideas. See also our forthcoming events & training listing.

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Where do MSD leaders come from? Building the next generation

April 2024: Mike Klassen, BEAM Exchange / Fouzia Nasreen, Independent consultant and long-term advisor, Swisscontact / Dhita Radcliffe, Mercy Corps Ethiopia / John Rachkara, Mercy Corps Nigeria

Beyond the last mile: applying MSD in host and refugee markets in Ethiopia and Uganda

March 2024: Paul Joicey, SHARPE Ethiopia / Collins Apuoyo, IAM Uganda

Greening the MSD approach in agriculture

January 2024: Clara Garcia Parra, The Canopy Lab / Md Mohasin Kabir & Gracia Christie Napitupulu, PRISMA (Indonesia) / Innocent Thindwa, CASA (Malawi)

The digitalisation of job matching services in Kosovo

November 2023: Albina Berisha & Valbona Rraci, EYE Kosovo / Justin van Rhyn

From inception to inspiration

September 2023: Elene Tkhlashidze, RECONOMY / Jorge Reyes, TMS Honduras / Holly Lard Krueger & Clara García Parra, The Canopy Lab

Can Jobtech create sustainable decent work for millions of unemployed youth?

July 2023. From Mercy Corps: Gituku Ngene / Mercy Mangeni / Meseret Tefera

Starting from zero: creating systemic impact in Somalia’s healthcare space

June 2023: Ron Ashkin, DT Global Africa / Millicent Oketch & Hassan Eymoy, PSPH

The shocking facts: navigating and bouncing back from market shocks

May 2023. From PRISMA: Nina FitzSimons / Mohasin Kabir / Prajwal Shahi

Innovative applications of the MSD Competency Framework

March 2023: Nina FitzSimons (PRISMA) / Paul Ndungu (Gatsby Africa) / Fernando Martinez Cure (ILO) / Mike Klassen (BEAM Exchange)

Women-Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI) framework - improving development outcomes for women & marginalised groups

January 2023: Erin Markel (MSA) / Ryan Bourque (MSP)

Applying an environment and climate change lens to an MSD programme: insights from RECONOMY

December 2022. From Helvetas: Anastasia Bekish / Zenebe Uraguchi

Designing & delivering MSD youth employment programming in sub-Saharan Africa

November 2022: Justin van Rhyn / Appiah Boakye / Meseret Tefera / Rachel Shah

Bridging the gap: unlocking synergies between private sector development and development finance

September 2022: Alex Kucharski, British International Investment / Arjun Bhoopal, Gatsby Africa

Responding to shocks using market-based approaches: insights from RDC Bangladesh

May 2022: Cuan Opperman / Bidowra Khan / Mark Sevier, ACDI/VOCA

Tactical responses - how GROW Liberia delivered results in a thin and crisis-affected setting

April 2022: Alex Elphinstone (ASI) / Kim Beevers (GROW) / Sabine Garbarino (GROW) / Umar Mohammed (GROW)

Get started on assessing system change

March 2022: Ritesh Prasad (GROW Liberia) / Ajla Vilogorac (The Market Development Facility) / Farzana Amin (PRABRIDDHI Bangladesh) / Aly Miehlbradt (Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd)

Breaking new ground: application of the MSD approach to land certification in Ethiopia

January 2022. From the LIFT team: Andy Smith (DAI) / Ignacio Fiestas (Nathan Associates) / Solyana Amsalu (Consultant) / Enrico Neumann (Nathan Associates)

Greening Market Systems Development

December 2021: Isaac Cowan-Gore (ILO) / Gramos Osmani (RisiAlbania) / Sara Pauli (Markets 4 Recycling) / Clara Garcia Parra (Independent consultant)

Empowering women and girls through private sector engagement: lessons from SPRING

November 2021: Heidi Ober and Gordon Freer, Tetra Tech International Development

A business approach to Market System Development - the Élan RDC story

November 2021: Gregoire Poisson, Edwige Takassi and Raouf Saidi from Elan RDC

What results did the MSD approach deliver? A review of the latest evidence

October 2021: Luis Osorio-Cortes (MSD specialist) / Mike Albu (BEAM Exchange) / Rachel Shah (Springfield Centre) / Kristin O'Planick (USAID)

#Digital4MSME: using the market systems approach for digital transformation

October 2021: Maximilian Schulz (MSD Consultant) / Eric Nana Kwabena Agyei (MobiPay Uganda) / Laura-Kristin Baric (GIZ Ghana)

Growing agribusinesses to overcome market failures

September 2021: Mark Thomas and Camila Studart (Nathan Associates)

Adapting MSD to fragile and conflict-affected situations: lessons for COVID response

July 2021: Karri Byrne (Senior Market Systems Advisor) / Aysha Johnson (FCDO) / Laura Meissner (USAID) / Sasha Muench (Mercy Corps) / Corrie Sissons (CRS)

Rebuilding fragile markets with unconventional MSD partners

July 2021: Salamatu Baba Tunzwang (Propcom Mai-karfi) / Gbenga Ariyo (Propcom Mai-karfi)

The road to jobs during a protracted crisis

June 2021: Tonderai Manoto, R2J (ILO) / Zakia Samimi, SIYB Afghanistan / Jan Mohammad Dosti, R2J (ILO)

Formalisation and the MSD approach: business growth, resilience and improved working conditions

March 2021: Judith van Doorn (ILO) / Helen Bradbury (ALCP) / Roel Hakemulder (Consultant) / Merten Sievers (ILO)

Better systems, better jobs: a closer look at value-chain development for decent work

Feb. 2021: Valerie Berset Bircher (SECO) / Merten Sievers (ILO) / Khairul Islam (ILO) / Raji Rajan (Gatsby Africa) / Matt Rippley & Elisa Mandelli (ILO)

How MSD enhanced Nigerian farmers’ resilience to COVID-19

January 2021: William Grant (DAI) / Dara Akala (PIND Foundation) / Precious Agbunno (PIND Foundation) / David Elliott (Gallus Edge)

How the private sector is adapting to Covid-19: country-level analysis from the World Bank

November 2020: speakers from the World Bank - Filip Jolevski / Gemechu Ayana Aga / Marcio Cruz / Denis Medvedev

How to do MSD procurement: practical insights from donors and implementers

October 2020: Roger Oakeley (The Springfield Centre) / Elin Carlsson (SIDA) / Grace Becton (Mercy Corps) / Nina FitzSimons (PRISMA,Palladium)

Employment rewired: Youth Impact Labs learning event

September 2020: Phil Greiner (Mercy Corps Jordan) / Khaleel Najjar (Mercy Corps Jordan) / Jerioth Mwaura (Mercy Corps Kenya)

Contrasting commercial agri-extension success stories in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria

June 2020: William Grant (DAI) / Precious Agbunno (PIND Foundation) / Susan Maina (Kenya Markets Trust) / David Wozemba (Gatsby Africa)

Top-down or bottom-up? How development actors can promote Economic Transformation

June 2020: Dirk Willem te Velde, ODI / Matt Ripley, Impact-Management / Arjun Bhoopal, Gatsby Africa / Kåre Johard, Sida / Gun Eriksson Skoog, ILO

Adapting MSD programmes in response to COVID-19

May 2020: Debora Randall, NU-TEC, DFID / Collins Apuoyo, IAMA, USAID / Warwick Thomson, Independent consultant

A pragmatic approach to assessing system change

April 2020: Aly Miehlbradt, Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd / Hans Posthumus, Hans Posthumus Consultancy / Rachel Shah, Springfield Centre / Adam Kessler, DCED

Proven impact: results of the independent evaluation of Propcom Mai-karfi

March 2020: Gordon Freer, Evaluation Team Lead, WYG / Nur Azam, Director of Results, Learning & Knowledge Management, Propcom Mai-karfi

Women in the workplace: how better data can lead to systemic change

January 2020: Julia Hakspiel, AWEF / Adriano Scarampi, AWEF / Professor Stephanie Barrientos, WOW / Erin Markel, MarketShare Associates

Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA)

January 2020: Farbod Youssefi, The World Bank

MSD business models: how to build competency in business and financial analysis

December 2019: Matt Ripley, ILO, The Lab / Tonderai Manoto, ILO, Afghanistan / Niklaus Waldvogel, Helvetas, Kosovo / Mike Klassen, BEAM Exchange

Transforming systems for professionalising farmer organisations

November 2019: Mark Blackett, AMEA / Sabrina Amburgey, ACDI/VOCA / Harrison Kaziro, Agribusiness Unit at Uganda Cooperative Alliance

Reviewing the evidence - how effective is the MSD approach?

October 2019: Kevin Conroy, Private Sector Development Consultant / Adam Kessler, DevLearn / Mike Albu, BEAM Exchange

Disruptive technologies - an innovations system approach

September 2019: Marcus Jenal, Decision Support Unit / Meredith Baker, Country Director DRC, Viamo / Lucine Le Moal, ELAN RDC Team Leader

Applying BEAM’s MSD Competency Framework

July 2019: Mike Klassen & Amir Allana, BEAM Exchange / Ailsa Buckley, Swisscontact / Will Baron, MercyCorps / Deepak Dhoj Khadka, iDE

Better jobs in Africa’s booming construction sector

June 2019: Steve Hartrich, The Lab Project, ILO Geneva and Alexander Twahirwa, Labour Market Governance Officer, ILO Rwanda

Promoting systemic change in shallow markets – lessons from experience

March 2019. Aly Miehlbradt, Director, Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd / Collins Apuoyo, Team Leader, NU-TEC MD, Uganda

AgResults: building inclusive market systems through private sector prize competitions

March 2019. Aviva Kutnick, USAID / Rachel Lambert, DFID / Parasto Hamed, AgResults Secretariat

M4C's experience of applying market systems

Feb. 2019. Dr Syeda Zinia Rashid, Embassy of Switzerland, Bangladesh. M4C: S M Mahmuduzzaman / Jannat Adib Chowdhury / Anirban Bhowmik

In search of the sweet spot in implementing MSD programmes

Nov. 2018: Harald Bekkers, Director, Opportunities Unlimited B.V./ Marshall Bear, MSD consultant

Implementing adaptive management in DRC

Oct. 2018: Andrea Talbot-West & Frédéric Chetcuti, Essor / Nathan Hulley, ELAN RDC / Marcus Jenal, DSU

Managing market system development – implications for donors

Sept. 2018: MSD Working Group webinar - Itad and Sida discuss Sida's evaluation of its portfolio of MSD programmes.

Extreme poverty alleviation using MSD

Sept. 2018: Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar, Innovision Consulting and Saif MM Islam, CARE Bangladesh

Aquaculture goes to market: jobs for youth in Warri City, Nigeria

July 2018: James Elekwachi and Faith Soya, PIND Foundation

Restructuring for impact

June 2018: Ron Ashkin, AECOM / Dalia El Molla, AECOM / Iman Elibyary, AECOM

Making markets work for refugees

Feb 2018: Debora Randall, Swisscontact / Peter Douglas and Collins Apuoyo, Palladium / Ailsa Buckley, Swisscontact

Market systems and job quality

December 2017: Steve Hartrich, ILO / Raksha Vasudevan & Ben Fowler, Marketshare Associates / Sebastien Moineau, BIF Myanmar

Shaping inclusive markets

November 2017: Harvey Koh, FSG / Ahmed Irfan, FSG

Financial markets in protracted crises

June 2017: Tim Waites, DFID / Joe Huxley, Financial Sector Deepening Africa / Thea Anderson, Mercy Corps

Developing markets for sanitation - where to start?

May 2017: Aprajita Singh and Sanjay Singh, Population Services International, India / Jan Willem Rosenboom, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Hiring for adaptive management

March 2017: Amir Allana, Consultant / Alison Hemberger, Mercy Corps / Matthias Herr, Helvetas Swiss Int. / David Ratliff, US Agency

Rethinking systemic change

May 2017: Dr Shawn Cunningham & Marcus Jenal, Mesopartner / Andrew Koleros, Palladium / Harvey Koh, FSG / Duncan Green, Oxfam

Beyond gendered social norms

March 2017: Marcus Jenal, BEAM Exchange / Erin Markel, MarketShare Associates / Fahd Georgy and Sabrina Haque, DAI

From analysis to action

March 2017: Mark Thomas, Nathan Associates / James Blewett, Maxwell Stamp / Bill Grant, DAI / Jodie Thorpe, BEAM Exchange

Facilitating labour market systems for youth employment

February 2017: Gavin Anderson, Consultant / Dr Jon Burns, Springfield Centre / Merten Sievers, ILO / Zenebe Uraguchi, HELVETAS Swiss Int.

Leveraging local market systems networks

Jan 2017: Margie Brand, EcoVentures Int. / G. Okeyo, Self Help Africa / Rifat Zareen Nadia, MDF Bangladesh / J. Merz, Helvetas / R. Pradh, Swiss Contact

Guidance: ALCP Investment Manual

December 2016

The road to adaptive management

October 2016

Getting to scale

October 2016

Challenge of scale

July 2016

Gender norms and unpaid care

July 2016

Evaluating programmes

April 2016

Women's economic empowerment

March 2016

Market facilitation in aid-intensive contexts

January 2016

Strengthening entrepreneurship

November 2015

Violence against women and girls

November 2015

Evidence for market systems approaches

September 2015

Facilitating change in thin markets

September 2015

Systemic M&E tools

June 2015

Wage labour

May 2015

Collaborating with the private sector

April 2015

Assessing attribution

March 2015

Health sector innovation

February 2015

Using MSD to support public agricultural extension services

January 2015

Assessing systemic change

November 2014: Jim Tanburn, DCED / Matt Ripley, ILO Lab / Tim Tuckett, SAMARTH

Adaptive management in aid programmes

December 2014