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How do you apply a market systems approach in a country that is collapsing?

ILO PROSPECTS Lebanon is adopting a highly adaptive path in order to safeguard jobs threatened by the crisis

ILO PROSPECTS Lebanon
Aug. 1, 2022
It’s the behaviours that count

A look at some of the guiding principles critical to health market facilitation

Cynthia Eldridge
July 28, 2022
Levelling the playing field – developing market systems that support regenerative agriculture

Practical Action has five strategies that use market systems to support regenerative agriculture.

John Chettleborough
July 5, 2022
Using market-based approaches to respond to shocks: insights from Bangladesh

We tested different business models and found ways to increase the resilience of both large and small agricultural businesses.

Bidowra Khan
June 23, 2022
Responding to challenges in adapting MSD approaches to the care economy

Care economy interventions require rethinking some of the MSD tools.

Holly Lard Krueger
June 23, 2022
Adapting the MSD approach to the care economy

Addressing care work in MSD projects is tough but necessary.

Holly Lard Krueger
June 23, 2022
Navigating systemic resilience trade-offs in conflict settings: examples from Ituri, DRC

Good facilitation is crucial - focusing less on what you do and more on interventions that can catalyse positive systemic change.

Dan Langfitt
June 17, 2022
Skills in MSD: not just another supporting function

By clearly defining the core system you’re trying to change, and how skills fit into it, you can adapt your language, tools and approach more effectively.

Mike Klassen
June 17, 2022
What does successful co-creation look like in Honduras?

Using co-creation and engaging citizens, businesses, and government entities in a market systems approach is essential to designing better projects.

Dexis Consulting Group
June 17, 2022
Reflections from an MSD practitioner

I recently changed job1, and as is often the case at milestone moments, it gave me a chance to pause and reflect.

Rachel Shah
June 2, 2022
PMSD: from a roadmap to a toolkit

Our revamped PMSD toolkit remains enshrined in its original core principles - systems thinking, facilitation, participation and now, gender

John Chettleborough
May 26, 2022
Inclusive market systems can reduce extreme poverty: five examples

March's EDM journal looks at the potential for inclusive financial and market systems to reduce extreme poverty and improve food security

Dan Norell
April 28, 2022
Inclusive business models can help close the gender gap - four lessons from GROW

Even a successful inclusive business model does not automatically eliminate long-held prejudice and bias against women.

Sabine Garbarino
April 11, 2022
Risky business? An MSD approach for better occupational safety and health

Let's look at how MSD programmes can adjust their intervention strategies and designs to support better occupational safety and health (OSH)

Isaac Cowan-Gore
March 17, 2022
Defining and assessing market system resilience: demystification is needed

Einstein said it: “In the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity”. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that market system resilience is crucial.

Hans Posthumus
Jan. 31, 2022