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Analyse that

Are our market systems analyses fit for purpose? A recent review by the ILO Lab suggests we need to shift focus from paper to practice.

Matt Ripley
17 May 2019
Can we create better jobs in Africa’s booming construction sector?

ILO-The Lab compares constraints and opportunities in the building construction sector in Mozambique, Zambia and Rwanda

Steve Hartrich
09 May 2019
Leaving no one behind

The 'leave no one behind' challenge - assessing the evidence for MSD in Australia's aid programme.

Julie Delforce
15 Feb 2019
Fintech for women: scaling the financial inclusion pyramid in Egypt

Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund's (AWEF) study in Egypt on leveraging 'Fintech' innovations to create meaningful financial solutions for low-income people, especially poor or disadvantaged women.

Chloe Gueguen
28 Jan 2019
How should donors manage adaptively? Market Systems Development as a case study.

Itad has recently completed a strategic evaluation for Sida to help them work through how they can best manage programmes that are adaptive and apply systems approaches.

Helen Bailey
07 Jan 2019
The benefit of hindsight: how market systems theory could have predicted Aflasafe uptake in Nigeria

Incentivising Nigerian smallholder farmers to use a bio control to protect their maize.

Justin Kosoris
17 Dec 2018
Improving the economic benefits of landholders in Ethiopia

How the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme is helping the rural poor in Ethiopia.

Christina Mayr
04 Dec 2018
Putting the value in land titling

Land rights value chain and market systems development - what is a land title worth?

Bill Grant
19 Nov 2018
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 Thomas 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