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Inclusive markets matter: why broadening market participation is vital to break the poverty cycle

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
Moving beyond female participation

How ELAN RDC is upgrading women’s roles in DRC.

Sonia Jordan
08 Mar 2018
Using a systemic approach to analyse the biotrade market system

In this blog post we present the case of ethical biotrade as an example that the systemic approach can create sustainable, positive environmental impacts and contribute to the preservation of vulnerable or endangered species.

Andrew Wilson
19 Feb 2018
Quarterly Sector Reviews: putting adaptive management into practice

Insight into how Enterprise Partners learns from, and adapts, strategies and interventions.

Adam Kessler
01 Feb 2018
Can we adapt market systems strategies for housing?

A market systems approach to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of markets to respond to global incremental building needs.

Scott Merrill
21 Dec 2017
Community Journalism networks - voices from the village

Community Journalism networks as a method of enhancing news and programming on commercial radio in Africa

Helen Bassey-Osijo
07 Dec 2017
Influencing Government: five top tips

Many of us working on market systems interventions have at some point struggled to influence government. At ENABLE2, a business environment reform programme in Nigeria, we’ve often felt that frustration. We’ve also learned, over seven years, some valuable lessons.

Adenike Kazalma Mantey
21 Nov 2017
What evidence is there for the impact of market systems development?

The strength (or weakness) of evidence to support use of the market systems approach is a topic that always provokes heated debate.

James Robinson
14 Nov 2017
From land tenure security to financial inclusion

Land tenure insecurity is a widespread problem in developing countries, where the majority of households are smallholders and depend on subsistence agriculture. We have been looking at ways to stimulate farmers to invest in their land.

Clara García Parra
13 Nov 2017
Applying adaptive management in the field

The importance of people and skills required to support the adaptive management of programs.

Liz McGuinness
26 Oct 2017
The 'hidden middle': catalysing transformation and growth in the agricultural mid-stream sector

USAID’s Agricultural Value Chains Project (AVC), implemented by DAI, has explored the factors that limit development of Bangladesh’s mid-stream segments and identified targeted areas for intervention to begin to work around these barriers and catalyze transformation in the mid-stream.

Sarah Wall
28 Sep 2017
What does it take for a market systems approach to ‘leave no one behind’?

What are the particular opportunities and barriers of employing a 'market systems' approach to reach highly marginalised men and women?

Zenebe Uraguchi
19 Sep 2017