Ben Fowler
Ben Fowler is a Principal Consultant at MarketShare Associates, a consulting firm focused on implementing and measuring innovative economic development approaches. Ben specialises in designing, delivering, measuring and evaluating market development programming. He regularly publishes on these topics and has produced several widely consulted resources. Ben has over 13 years of experience in economic development across more than 30 countries, including long-term roles in Kenya and Guatemala. He previously worked for MEDA and the Aga Khan Foundation. Ben speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Kiswahili.
Contributions
Blogs
- Why rural wage labour matters - week 3 summary [2015]
- Seven tools for measuring systemic change [2015]
Resources
- Lasting roots: an ex post study in Senegal of Naatal Mbay and the integrated finance model [2023]
- Enhancing partner and systems-level learning [2023]
- Shifting the locus of learning: catalyzing private sector learning to drive systemic change [2022]
- Measuring job creation in private sector development [2021]
- Market systems and job quality [2017]
- Testing tools for assessing systemic change [2016]
- Scaling impact: Cambodia ex-post assessment [2016]
- Disrupting system dynamics framework [2016]
- Reconsidering the concept of scale in market systems development [2016]
- All systems go: systemic change in practice: what it is, how to get there, and how to measure it [2016]
- The road to adaptive management [2016]
- Guidelines for monitoring, evaluation and learning in market systems development [2016]
- Scaling impact: Extending input delivery to smallholder farmers at scale [2015]
- Scaling impact: Improving smallholder farmers' beneficial access to output markets [2015]
- Evaluating systems and systemic change [2014]
- Pathways out of poverty [2011]