Mike Klassen

I am an independent consultant and a part-time member of the BEAM core team. I have been working in the field of market systems development since 2010. The majority of my field experience was as a consultant and team leader with EWB Canada, in Ghana and Uganda. For the past 6 years, I have been based in Canada but supporting organizations remotely. I have been working for BEAM for several years, and most recently have been involved in the development and roll out of the MSD Competency Framework. Outside of market systems, I am an active researcher in the field of Higher Education, currently a PhD Candidate working on a comparative study of engineering education in the UK, Singapore, Australia and South Africa for my thesis. I am curious about opportunities to connect these two sets of expertise, and open to learning about programs applying MSD principles in education - particularly post-secondary education (in TVET institutions and universities).

Contributions

Blogs

• Putting BEAM’s Competency Framework to the test! [2019]
• How to boil market systems down to their essence without diluting them [2015]

Resources

• Decisive structures: procurement format options for MSD programmes and their different implications [2020]
• Deepening the relationship: a stage-by-stage guide to strengthening partnerships between donors and implementers in MSD programmes [2020]
• Getting off the ground: practical lessons for the launch phase of MSD programmes [2020]
• Fit for Business: modifying internal procurement processes to suit adaptive MSD programmes [2020]
• Introduction to the MSD Competency Framework [2019]
• Social norms in market systems development [2017]
• Increasing the uptake of new technologies [2017]
• Market facilitation clinics: a how-to manual [2016]