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Webinar July 19: Supporting Markets to Recover: Tips and Tricks from the Markets in Crisis Community of Practice

New Markets in Crisis Website and Resource Library!

SDC Internal Guidance Document on Managing MSD Projects now available in French and Spanish!

Broadening market participation vital to breaking the poverty cycle

To generate sustained changed for the world's vulnerable farmers, we must as a development fraternity overcome the common misconception that marketplaces are adversarial. We must rather educate ourselves on the ...

AWEF/SEEP Webinar on Liking Women to Markets: A Close Look at Women's Market Readiness

Together with DAI, MarketShare Associates is hosting a webinar on Linking Women to Markets: A Closer Look at Women's Market Readiness. The webinar is part of a 2-year learning series ...

Call for participants/speakers in upcoming symposium on gender and markets in Dakar

Join me for a course on harnessing the power of complexity in development

Starting in September, I will be leading a unique expedition of development practitioners through complexity approaches to enhance agile, adaptive and appropriate work in dynamic and uncertain development contexts. Want ...

Market Systems in Start Up: Learning for Innovation

The USAID Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova) implemented by DAI Global, LLC, adopts and applies market systems approach principles in engagements with motivated partners to generate ...

Comparing "Demonstration plots" to the UK's Nudge Unit work with taxes and neighbors?

While I am at it I thought I would ask about the efficacy of "Demonstration plots". I have never thought of them as particularly successful, or at least the ones ...

Wanted: A program related to agricultural production implemented with the M4P/MSD approach in proximity of Ouagadougu (preferably West of) and Koudougou in Burkina Faso.

May one of you colleagues in the Beam Exchange Forum help me? Thank you very much!

New Video Documentary on the Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health (PSP4H), Kenya

Take a look at this short (8 minute) documentary on DFID's Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health (PSP4H), which uses the M4P/market systems approach “to improve the for-profit health market ...

Webinar reminder: Making markets work for refugees

Tuesday 6 Feb, 1300 GMT Speakers: Ailsa Buckley (Swisscontact), Debora Randall (Swisscontact), Peter Douglas and Collins Apuoyo (Palladium) For practitioners working with displaced people and host communities. Sharing ideas and ...