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MSD in disrupted markets: important lessons from Nepal

Evaluating NMDP-Samarth - Nepal's first MSD programme

Edward Hedley
17 Jul 2020
Silver bullet or last resort? Business Membership Organisations in MSD

Why is it that development practitioners can be wary of partnering with Business Membership Organisations (BMOs)?

Isaac Cowan-Gore
25 Jun 2020
Can results last a decade? Understanding sustainability for post-covid19 responses

Understanding if and how a systems project can bring about sustainable change.

Elisa Mandelli
01 Jun 2020
COVID-19 and a rapid analysis of Honduran enterprises' capacity to cope

The importance of resilience, and the ability to adapt to shocks, for businesses in Honduras

Sergio Rivas
18 May 2020
MSD programmes need to adapt and innovate due to COVID-19

The longer term impact of COVID-19 in Uganda is still very unclear, but we cannot sit by and just 'wait and see'.

Debora Randall
18 May 2020
Time to #BuildBackBetter the tourism sector to create more and better jobs?

One new job in tourism creates one and a half indirect jobs, but COVID-19 has put a halt to that.

Elisa Mandelli
05 May 2020
Breathing new life into our market systems work

During 2020 Practical Action is revamping its Participatory Markets Systems Development (PMSD) approach to be more accessible, suit specific contexts and better address resilience, gender and the private sector.

John Chettleborough
30 Apr 2020
Eight lessons on making digital financial inclusion work for women in MENA

Tackling the financial inclusion gender gap to improve women's financial independence and employment prospects.

Chloe Gueguen
27 Apr 2020
Does scale matter?

How will all the nine billion people in the world of 2030 obtain safe, good food?

Julian Peach
23 Apr 2020
Impossible choices – questioning assumptions behind lock-down in low income and fragile contexts

COVID-19 response – checking our assumptions for fragile and low capacity countries.

Julia Lawson McDowall
16 Apr 2020
Market systems approach – all about business, really?

If we are to be useful allies to poor people then it is important we understand the difference between businesses and market systems.

Julian Peach
14 Apr 2020
Should we create decent work or make work more decent? Demystifying what decent work means for Market System Development projects

Focusing on job creation alone is not enough. Low quality jobs are precisely what keeps people locked into cycles of poverty.

Matt Ripley
07 Apr 2020
COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade

Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor rely on to buy and sell fresh food. Danielle Resnick argues that as governments impose COVID-19 restrictions, informal food traders should be helped rather than persecuted.

Danielle Resnick
06 Apr 2020
Measuring impact, managing failure

Clara Garcia Parra of Helvetas interviews Susanne Thiard-Laforet of the Austrian Development Agency to discuss 'impact' from the donor perspective and to share thoughts on learning from failure.

Clara García Parra
24 Mar 2020
MSD and job creation: can we measure what counts?

The need to ‘prove results’ in job creation easily creates incentives for unsustainable quick fixes that do not shift the conditions holding problems in place.

Mike Albu
03 Mar 2020