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Flash of Inspiration no. 5: Cost-Benefit Analysis

Market systems resilience - a concept to reframe systemic change and sustainability?

How can we fix the biggest sustainability problem facing development?

RE: Refugees/IDPs and Savings Groups

Detoxifying markets

In pursuit of development goals in developing countries, the development agencies in many cases have toxified the markets with interventions that have developed inappropriate commercial behavior, and complacency among the ...

Call for Case Studies

Do you work to empower women through a market systems approach? We want to hear from you! Submit your case study for our upcoming learning brief on Collaborating with the ...

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 ...

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 ...