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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
The schism in systemic change measurement

There are two schools of thought in the MSD community as to how to go about assessing systemic change. These are rooted in two different ways of seeing systems.

Jake Lomax
03 Mar 2020
Working with the private sector for systemic change: why build a partnership facility in the first place?

A look at the partnership principles that informed how USAID/Mozambique’s Feed the Future Agricultural Innovations activity designed its partnership facility.

Dan Langfitt
17 Feb 2020
Using data to promote women’s empowerment in MSD programmes: the experience of AWEF

Sharing some of the lessons learnt on effectively collecting and using data as part of the Arab Women Enterprise Fund.

Julia Hakspiel (formerly Lipowiecka)
11 Feb 2020
Using Political Economy Analysis to improve the enabling environment for agricultural market systems

How thinking and working politically (TWP) through the use of applied political economy analysis (PEA) can help market systems practitioners.

Marc Cassidy
10 Feb 2020
Breaking down market barriers to benefit communities and biodiversity

PMSD, which stands for Participatory Market System Development, is not as complicated as it may sound!

Kiran Mohanan
10 Feb 2020
The Art of the Pivot…in the context of results-based management

Responding to moral dilemmas arising from interventions in MSD programmes

Ben Taylor
13 Jan 2020
Simple models vs complex realities: do our good intentions lead others into poverty traps?

The tendency to promote simple models fails to recognise more complex realities and causalities.

Matthias Herr
10 Dec 2019
GESI: four ways to successfully mainstream it across your programme

There are four key elements that can help mainstream Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) across your programme.

Terry Roopnaraine
25 Nov 2019
Private v Public education in poor countries: What’s new? Interview with Prachi Srivastava

Duncan Green interviews Prachi Srivastava on the public v private schools debate

Prachi Srivastava
18 Oct 2019
Putting BEAM’s Competency Framework to the test!

Improving hiring processes and supporting individualised mentorship - how MercyCorps, iDE and Swisscontact put BEAM's new Competency Framework into practice.

Mike Klassen
15 Oct 2019
Inclusive systems development through the looking glass

Sustainability doesn't just happen - Swisscontact and the Springfield Centre on the evolution of MSD.

Ailsa Buckley
26 Aug 2019
Building inclusive markets in forced displacement settings

A new ILO report distils lessons learned for MSD in fragile and forced displacement settings.

Marlen de la Chaux
30 Jul 2019
System failure: why a ‘cut and paste’ approach to tech isn’t working

New technologies are often seen as a quick fix for some of the most difficult MSD challenges.

Marcus Jenal
29 Jul 2019