Marcus Jenal
Marcus is a consultant and partner at Mesopartner, a global knowledge and consultancy firm in economic development. Marcus is supporting various programmes and projects during design, inception and implementation. In addition, he has been building knowledge in complex systems theory and other scientific fields through various training and research engagements. Based on that, has been actively engaged in conceptual work around systemic approaches to economic development, improving the way projects are designed, delivered, monitored and evaluated. Marcus worked for BEAM as is the technical lead in results measurement, impact evaluation and evidence between April 2014 and March 2017.
Contributions
Blogs
- System failure: why a ‘cut and paste’ approach to tech isn’t working [2019]
- Market systems resilience - a concept to reframe systemic change and sustainability? [2019]
- Harnessing the power of complexity in development [2018]
- Did we do that? Attribution in market systems change [2017]
- New research: Achieving conceptual clarity on systemic change [2016]
- Complexity informed theory of change [2016]
- Showcasing evaluations of market systems development [2015]
- Peer-to-peer workshop reveals growing interest in SenseMaker® [2015]
- Measuring systemic change in Feed the Future Uganda: SenseMaker [2015]
- Measuring systemic change in Feed the Future Uganda: Network Analysis [2015]
- Measuring systemic change in Feed the Future Uganda [2015]
- New funding approaches call for a new way of measuring impact [2015]
- What next on assessing systemic change? [2014]
Resources
- Outcome Harvesting: a methodology to track change that is hard to measure [2020]
- Measuring systemic change in market systems development - a stock taking [2019]
- Disruptive technologies for private sector development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [2019]
- Causality and attribution in market systems development [2017]
- Social norms in market systems development [2017]
- All systems go: systemic change in practice: what it is, how to get there, and how to measure it [2016]
- A new framework for assessing systemic change in Katalyst: the pilot study in local agri-business network [2016]
- Rethinking systemic change: economic evolution and institutions [2016]
- Rethinking systemic change: economic evolution and institutions [2016]
- Effective partnership with the private sector (1) [2015]
- Effective partnership with the private sector (2) [2015]
- Effective partnership with the private sector (3) [2015]
- Monitoring and measuring change in market systems [2014]
- Gaining systemic insight to strengthen economic development initiatives [2013]
- Monitoring and measuring change in market systems [2013]