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From the inside out

USAID Learning Lab

USAID Learning Lab podcast series on Adaptive Management A four-episode pilot series on Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) providing an overview of the concept of CLA and featured CLA case ...

How can I conduct more meaningful market systems analysis? – Check your ego!

Although a valuable tool for analysing market systems, network analysis is challenging to implement and has yet to be deployed extensively by international development practitioners.

Warehouse Receipt Systems for food grains

Propcom Mai-karfi

Climate change and increasingly sporadic rains add to the many challenges facing maize farmers in northern Nigeria. Inadequate storage facilities lead to farmers having to choose between storing in sub-optimal ...

Designed to fail

Springfield Centre

How to design programmes to allow adaptive management The development world is abuzz with discussions about how ‘adaptive management’ is critical to more effective aid. Proponents argue that iterative but ...

Chicken & egg - the hard choices

TOMAK Learning & Development Platform

Analysis of the underlying questions of why seemingly obvious solutions to improving animal-sourced protein consumption, specifically the production of chickens and eggs, have yet to deliver promising outcomes in Timor-Leste. ...

Market Development Facility (MDF) phase 2 - annual aggregation of results 2017

Market Development Facility (Phase 2) annual aggregation of results for January - November 2017. The Market Development Facility (MDF) is Australia’s flagship private sector development programme in the Indo-Pacific region. ...

Moving beyond female participation

How ELAN RDC is upgrading women’s roles in DRC.

Key approaches to labor market assessment: an interactive guide

Workforce Connections

Workforce Connections has gathered and reviewed existing labor market assessment approaches and related tools from across the workforce and youth landscapes to develop a core suite of tools that can ...

Let core principles guide the artful choice between ‘proscriptive orthodoxy’ and ‘anything goes’

MDF: Market Development Facility

Part 3 of four in the Messiness Series The final section of the series outlines some of the implications distilled from MDF’s experiences as relevant to a range of contributors ...

What is PDIA?

Center for International Development, Harvard University

Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) is a process of facilitated emergence. It focuses on problems, not solutions. It follows a step by step process (not a rigid plan) that allows ...

The GEM Framework

MEDA

The Gender Equality Mainstreaming (GEM) Framework is a practical manual and toolkit for assessing gender equality and identifying, implementing and measuring gender equality mainstreaming strategies within companies. Women are key ...

Using a systemic approach to analyse the biotrade market system

In this blog post we present the case of ethical biotrade as an example that the systemic approach can create sustainable, positive environmental impacts and contribute to the preservation of ...

Quarterly Sector Reviews: putting adaptive management into practice

Insight into how Enterprise Partners learns from, and adapts, strategies and interventions.

Stimulating technology markets to tackle urban unemployment

DAI

An overview of the complexities involved in Market Systems Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territories including: a struggling economy shackled by absence of sovereignty restrictions on movement of goods and ...

Promoting rural income through support for markets in agriculture

Draft progress report and implementing plan for two programmes: Australia Indonesia Partnership for Promoting Rural Income through Support for Markets in Agriculture (AIP-PRISMA) Australia Indonesia Partnership for Strengthening Agricultural Finance ...

Sanitation markets systems in Bangladesh

iDE

Sanitation Market Systems in Bangladesh (SanMarkS) started in 2015 and focuses on sanitation product design and market research in order to meet Bangladesh’s sanitation goals faster and more effectively. This ...

Supporting Ethiopia’s industrial transformation

Enterprise Partners

Enterprise Partners is a social enterprise funded by DfID. It was established to facilitate agro-industrial growth and enable access to finance in Ethiopia. Its focus is on job and income ...

Palestine market development programme (PMDP)

DAI

A DFID-EU Palestinian Market Development Programme testing the market development approach in the Palestinian context. The programme aims to pilot market-based solutions to systemic constraints by introducing innovative business models ...

Market systems approach to better urban employment

ILO / MarketShare Associates

Poor quality jobs have severe impacts on workers and families trapped in perilous living and working conditions. How can a market systems approach to decent work help? A look at ...