Matt Ripley
- Organisation
- Impact Management
- Role
- Consultant
Matt specialises in designing, delivering and evaluating inclusive growth initiatives. He is a freelance consultant working with multinationals, investors, social enterprises and international development projects to drive a double bottom line of impact and business value. Matt has over a decade of experience leading large teams and global programmes, including as agriculture portfolio lead for a flagship market systems programme in Nepal, and leading a market systems innovation project at the ILO. He has written extensively about strategies and tactics to help organisations shift from an excessive emphasis on accountability-focused data collection towards leaner decision-focused data use.
Contributions
Blogs
- Goodbye market systems, we hardly knew you at all [2022]
- Should we create decent work or make work more decent? Demystifying what decent work means for Market System Development projects [2020]
- Analyse that [2019]
- ‘Win-win’ must be more than a buzzword [2018]
- Prove and improve: adapting M&E to better support business growth and project learning in MSD [2018]
- Market facilitation: play the game to see how good you are! [2017]
- The politics of evidence: a practitioner's perspective [2016]
- Analyse this: getting better at understanding how market systems work [2016]
- In market systems, all you need is jobs? [2014]
Resources
- A market systems approach to skills development [2022]
- Bridging the gap: unlocking synergies between private sector development and development finance [2022]
- 'How to' measure job quality in value chain development projects [2021]
- Value chain development for decent work [2021]
- Getting beyond tier 1 [2020]
- Promoting economic transformation through Business Environment Reform and Market Systems Development [2020]
- Promoting economic transformation through Market Systems Development [2019]
- Market systems resilience [2018]
- Measuring productive employment [2017]
- Sector selection for decent work: tips, tricks and tools [2017]
- Market systems facilitation, how good are you? [2017]
- The science in adaptive management [2016]
- A market systems approach to decent work [2016]
- The Boss Project in Timor-Leste [2015]
- Samarth: Making sense of messiness [2014]