BEAM

BEAM webinar: Market facilitation in aid-intensive contexts - tactics for coping with aid-induced market behaviour

Date
Jan. 28, 2016
Location
Online
Organisation
BEAM Exchange

When donors become market players and potentially distort attempts to achieve long term and large-scale change, how should market systems programmes respond? This webinar focuses on strategies and tactics to deal with distortion such as:

  • the competition between market systems and direct service delivery projects, where projects trying to facilitate systemic changes using a market systems approach face competition from others that are readily handing out money and giving away services for free
  • the 'market systems partnership competition' where too many market system projects compete with each other for the same, limited, pool of partners and the private sector has realised that partnering with market systems projects can be very profitable.

Shahnila Azher, will reflect on the tension between market-based programmes and more traditional approaches within donor organisations and how thinking has evolved in DFID. Nathalie Gunasekera brings insight and experience from the Western Balkans, while Rubaiyath Sarwar looks at how programmes and businesses are responding and what such distortion looks like on the ground.

The webinar will start at 13:00 GMT.

Register here!

Read the blog on how to develop effective and realistic market systems strategies in a donor-heavy environment.

Shahnila Azher is the Senior Private Sector Adviser in DFID Bangladesh and leads the Growth and Private Sector team. 

Nathalie Gunasekera is a Regional Advisor in HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation’s Eastern Europe Unit where she is part of the MarketMakers youth employment project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar is the Managing Director and Lead Consultant of Innovision Consulting Bangladesh and Innovision Global Consulting UK.