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.

Latest Blogs

Dec. 12, 2022

A review of 'A rough guide to the MSD approach for youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa'

A useful guide – especially in relation to my recent work with SDC’s Enhancing Youth Employment (EYE) in Kosovë

Julian Peach

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Oct. 20, 2022

How do you codify common sense? Transcribing the less tangible aspects of successful facilitation

Over a decade of facilitation on the Alliances programmes has allowed us to define what we think it is, and what makes it work, in our new version of the ALCP2 investments manual (version 3).

Helen Bradbury

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Oct. 11, 2022

How can 20 million Savings Group members be wrong?

Could MSD and adaptation to crisis push 20 million Savings Groups (SGs) members to 400 million?

Sarah Ward

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Nov. 10, 2022

Private sector engagement still pays off five years later

What happens when you build gender equality into a sustainable market solution? That solution lasts and grows for years after projects end.

Emily Janoch

The market systems approach: what it is & how it is different

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A rough guide to the MSD approach for youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa

A guide to help funders and implementers think systemically about the youth employment-focused programmes that use the MSD approach in sub-Saharan Africa.

Justin van Rhyn

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Cross-border value chain development: a rough guide to market systems development for decent work

A guide for practitioners to understand the effects on MSD for decent work of cross-border value chains

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Market assessment of digital employment opportunities for refugee youth

Assessment of the labour market system responsible for creating sustainable digital employment opportunities for refugee youth in Kenya.

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A market systems approach to skills development

An MSD approach to skills development has the potential to lead to more sustainable employment outcomes at scale

Gun Eriksson Skoog

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New MSD tool library on the BEAM Exchange

New accessible MSD tool library for practitioners - the first ever repository of MSD tools

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Market systems development fundamentals

MSD briefs: key components and tactics; MSD litmus test questions; and common myths surrounding the approach

MSD Competency Framework

Practitioners
Trainers
Managers

M4P Operational Guide

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

This BEAM Grab the Mic webinar provided insights from RECONOMY’s efforts, and the challenges faced, in applying an environment and climate change lens at all stages of programme development - from sector selection to programme design and implementation.
With Anastasia Bekish and Zenebe Uraguchi

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