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The BEAM Exchange - in partnership with the DCED - is a platform for knowledge exchange and learning about the role of markets in poverty reduction. Understand the market systems approach, read practical guidance and share your experiences with other practitioners

Four principles to guide procurement practice for MSD

Market systems approach - a video introduction

2018 DCED - BEAM Seminar report: using the market systems approach in cities

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Latest BEAM community contributions on MSD - guides, case studies, interventions, analysis and blogs.

Diagnostic assessment of Kenya's family planning market

Analysis using the M4P market systems approach to diagnose Kenya's family planning (FP) market. Report

Resource library Evidence map

June 21, 2018 – June 21, 2018 BEAM

BEAM Webinar: Restructuring for impact - retrofitting a market systems approach to an MSME programme

What happens when a prescriptive approach to small and microenterprise development does not have the intended impact?

BEAM Grab the Mic webinar, 21 June, 1300 (UK time)
Join Ron Ashkin (AECOM) and colleagues as they review USAID's SEED project in Egypt analaysing the logic and value for money of interventions.

Online Webinar | AECOM

Key reading on market systems

Evidence?

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Snapshots

New to markets systems? Read how the approaches work in practice

Guidance

Practical advice on how to plan and develop a market systems intervention

Find programmes that use a market system approach

Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (SEED) in Egypt – Egypt

AECOM International Development New listing

Sahaj-Nepal Agricultural Market Development Programme – Nepal

Swisscontact New listing

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Join me for a course on harnessing the power of complexity in development

Starting in September, I will be leading a unique expedition of development practitioners through complexity approaches to enhance agile, adaptive and appropriate work in dynamic and uncertain development contexts. Want ...

2 comments | 3 weeks, 5 days ago on LinkedIn

Market Systems in Start Up: Learning for Innovation

The USAID Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova) implemented by DAI Global, LLC, adopts and applies market systems approach principles in engagements with motivated partners to generate ...

5 comments | 2 months ago on LinkedIn

Comparing "Demonstration plots" to the UK's Nudge Unit work with taxes and neighbors?

While I am at it I thought I would ask about the efficacy of "Demonstration plots". I have never thought of them as particularly successful, or at least the ones ...

5 comments | 2 months, 1 week ago on LinkedIn

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