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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
Want to assess system change? Just get started

Are you hesitating to assess system change?

Alexandra Miehlbradt
Jan. 31, 2022
Reimagining the EDM Journal – open access, digitalisation, poverty outreach and more

Since 1990, the peer-reviewed Enterprise Development & Microfinance (EDM) journal has published practice-based insights into the role of markets, enterprises and financial services in reducing poverty and stimulating economic development.

Linda Jones
Jan. 28, 2022
Earth calling: market systems are embedded in nature

Given the environmental crisis that is engulfing us, incorporating environmental and social systems into the MSD approach is long overdue

Roel Hakemulder
Dec. 3, 2021
The importance of resilience thinking in market system development programs

We are testing USAID's framework to define and measure market systems resilience in fragile contexts

Dan Hudner
Nov. 15, 2021
Launching now: new crowd-sourced MSD tool stocktaking

Seeking MSD tools for a new open-access library for the market systems community

Bronwyn Irwin
Nov. 10, 2021
Putting a SPRING in the step of MSD!

Using Human Centred Design (HCD) to understand the challenges faced by a programme's beneficiaries

Gordon Freer
Oct. 28, 2021
Effective MSD leaders in fragile and conflict-affected situations

Part 2: the characteristics of effective MSD leaders in FCAS and the challenges faced in inclusive market development

Holly Lard Krueger
Oct. 26, 2021
Pursuit of the practical and pragmatic

Part 1: MSD implementation in fragile and conflict-affected situations

Holly Lard Krueger
Oct. 26, 2021
Is inclusive housing finally on the development agenda? Some clues point to yes

Markets play a key role in making housing more inclusive

Patrick McAllister
Oct. 26, 2021
Sustainability in a failed state

It is estimated that by 2030, 60 per cent of the world's poor will live in states affected by fragility, conflict and violence1.

Ben Taylor
Oct. 8, 2021