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. 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, and the facilitation of the MSD Procurement & Contracting Clinics. 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 and training - particularly post-secondary education (in TVET institutions and universities).

Contributions

Blogs

• Knowledge clinics offer a virtual method for synthesising best practice in MSD [2020]
• Putting BEAM’s Competency Framework to the test! [2019]
• How to boil market systems down to their essence without diluting them [2015]

Resources

• Knowledge Clinics: a virtual method for co-creating and codifying knowledge across organisations [2020]
• Adjusting procurement processes for MSD programmes [2020]
• 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]