Building Effective and Accessible Markets

The BEAM Exchange - in partnership with the DCED - is a platform for knowledge exchange and learning about the role of markets in poverty reduction. 

Risky business? An MSD approach for better occupational safety and health

Let's look at how MSD programmes can adjust their intervention strategies and designs to support better occupational safety and health (OSH)

Isaac Cowan-Gore

Want to assess system change? Just get started

Are you hesitating to assess system change?  

Alexandra Miehlbradt

Defining and assessing market system resilience: demystification is needed

Einstein said it: “In the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity”. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that market system resilience is crucial. 

Hans Posthumus

Reimagining the EDM Journal – open access, digitalisation, poverty outreach and more

Since 1990, the peer-reviewed Enterprise Development & Microfinance (EDM) journal has published practice-based insights into the role of markets, enterprises and financial services in reducing poverty and stimulating economic development.  

Linda Jones

Contribution, causality, context, and contingency when evaluating inclusive business programmes

Approaches and methods used to assess systemic change and provide learning for adaptive management

Giel Ton

2021 Evidence review

The results achieved by programmes that use the market systems development approach

Lucho Osorio-Cortes

A pragmatic approach to assessing system change – slide deck

Slide deck outlining a process that programmes can apply to regularly and practically assess system change

Hans Posthumus

Towards transformational impact: synergies of private sector engagement and market systems development

How learning between PSE and MSD approaches can facilitate transformational change

Bronwyn Irwin

SDC’s performance in Market System Development in agriculture 2013 - 2019

Independent evaluation of SDC-funded agriculture projects that had major elements of MSD

Eric Buhl-Nielsen