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Six ways to tell if a programme is really ‘doing development differently’

What tells us that a programme is genuinely adaptive - and what rings alarm bells?

Angela Christie
15 Nov 2018
Capturing Systemic Change in Bangladesh

Identifying systemic change and more inclusive market systems development in the USAID Bangladesh Agriculture Value Chains (AVC) programme.

Paul Bundick
13 Nov 2018
Why don't people do what we want them to?

Behaviour change is the essential but elusive key to success in MSD.

Jake Lomax
09 Nov 2018
How do you create change in the face of complex systems challenges?

How do you tackle a problem that is vast, complex and confusing? You don't. You work on the conditions that created the problem.

Kate Simpson
15 Oct 2018
Applying MSD to artisanal and small-scale mining in Rwanda

Market Systems Development (MSD) has never been applied to the mining sector, specifically artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). This is low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing.

James McQuilken
05 Oct 2018
‘Win-win’ must be more than a buzzword

The ILO is working to unpack different business models geared towards decent work - and find out what does and doesn't work.

Matt Ripley
02 Oct 2018
What the MSD handbook doesn't tell you

Why it is important to think in terms of messiness when implementing market system development and the implications for programme design and management.

Harald Bekkers
24 Sep 2018
Prove and improve: adapting M&E to better support business growth and project learning in MSD

Monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL) is not meant to focus just on project performance. Thus, the USAID's Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity has developed new MEL tools to assess whether business innovations are improving market system inclusiveness for smallholder farmers.

Luca Crudeli
24 Sep 2018
Harnessing the market systems approach to delay first birth among married adolescents

Lessons from market assessments in Niger and Bangladesh.

Raksha Vasudevan
21 Sep 2018
The business case for investing in women’s access and agency

AWEF is calling for case studies that demonstrate the business case for promoting women’s access and agency in the workplace.

Julia Lipowiecka
31 Aug 2018
How do you spot and grab an opportunity?

Applying the systemic approach in complex environments: youth employment in Albania and spotting opportunities in the ICT sector

Zenebe Uraguchi
20 Jul 2018
Towards a more inclusive approach to Market Systems Development

How can development practitioners get business and markets to work more effectively for people living in poverty?

Dane Moores
17 Jul 2018
Harnessing the power of complexity in development

Market systems are complex adaptive systems and market systems development is a complex task.

Marcus Jenal
05 Jun 2018
How to move beyond crude gender targets to genuine empowerment

All MSD programmes recognise the necessity to mainstream gender in their activities. However, too often the collection and analysis of gender-disaggregated data does not lead to informed strategies for effective economic empowerment for women. Here are three rules for genuine gender mainstreaming.

Sharmin Ahmed
02 May 2018
How can I conduct more meaningful market systems analysis? – Check your ego!

Although a valuable tool for analysing market systems, network analysis is challenging to implement and has yet to be deployed extensively by international development practitioners.

Patrick Sommerville
13 Apr 2018