1321 resources

Navigating adaptive approaches for development programmes

ODI

This paper is about how to learn and adapt in conditions of uncertainty. The approaches that it describes originate in different sectors but have a number of shared principles. This ...

Design and implementation of impact evaluations of MSD projects: the case of InovAgro

IFPRI / DAI

This paper identifies the lessons learned from the InovAgro MSD programme from a value chain perspective as well as in cross-cutting services in Northern Mozambique’s agricultural sector. International Food Policy ...

Better menstrual health: lessons from a market systems approach in Tanzania

Can market systems deliver impact for women, at scale?

Childcare and Women’s Economic Empowerment: what’s the link and what can the market systems approach add?

How some programmes are taking a market systems approach to developing childcare services

Diversity and inclusion in market systems programming

Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of working in market systems and navigating complexity

Practical guidance for promoting digital inclusion

Innovations in digital technology as a result of COVID-19 are leaving some vulnerable groups even further behind

Journeys to impact at scale

DevLearn

Enterprise Partners (EP) is a social enterprise funded by DFID. It was established to facilitate agro-industrial growth and enable access to finance in Ethiopia. This study looks at EP’s seven-year ...

Opportunities & imperatives arising from COVID-19: guidance on more inclusive digital adoption

The Canopy Lab / Impact's Edge

The disruption of COVID-19 has fueled fast-paced innovation and uptake of digital technology in all spheres of life. It has also exacerbated the existing vulnerabilities of poor women and men, ...

Bending the rules

ILO

This brief looks at how some market systems projects have successfully dipped their toes in policy work bringing meaningful changes to both workers and businesses alike. Most market systems projects ...

In it for the long haul

Gatsby Africa

In 2012, The Wood Foundation Africa (TWFA) and Gatsby Africa (GA) purchased majority stakes in two tea factories in Rwanda through a privatisation programme, becoming co-owners with farmer cooperatives that supplied ...

Market Systems Development and a just transition

ILO

This brief provides a demonstration case to help projects understand how to incorporate an environmental lens while conducting a market systems analysis for employment outcomes. The impacts of environmental challenges ...

A roadmap to post-COVID recovery for Nepal’s agri and tourism SMEs

Ecorys and Nathan Associates

Analysis of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Nepal following the economic fallout of COVID-19 and possible pathways for recovery for Nepal's agri and tourism SMEs. SMEs in Nepal ...

MSD in disrupted markets: important lessons from Nepal

Evaluating NMDP-Samarth - Nepal's first MSD programme

Deepening the relationship: a stage-by-stage guide to strengthening partnerships between donors and implementers in MSD programmes

BEAM Exchange

Donors and implementers both want to procure MSD programmes with a high chance of achieving significant results. However, they operate under different incentives: donors need accountability and value-for-money, while implementers ...

Fit for Business: modifying internal procurement processes to suit adaptive MSD programmes

BEAM Exchange

Adaptive management - deliberate and iterative learning for navigating complexity - is central to market systems development. Programme teams adjust interventions, add and drop market actor partners, and pivot sectors ...

The enabling environment for animal source food market system success

USAID Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security

An analytical guidance document from the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project. It examines the factors in the enabling environment that shape successful outcomes in animal ...

PAVE systems change study

MEDA / Engro foundation

Findings of a qualitative study to measure systems-level impacts of the PAVE Pakistan project. The study findings suggest systemic change has been initiated at the individual, community and institutional level ...

COVID-19 survey results

MEDA

This survey was conducted with married female farmers participating in PAVE Pakistan. The aim was to get an idea of how life, workloads and household dynamics of female farmers have ...

Getting Africa’s youth working

ILO Lab & Mastercard Foundation

A look at the characteristics of labour markets in sub-Saharan Africa drawing lessons from programmes that use a market systems approach to make these markets work better for young people. ...

Child’s play

The Lab, ILO

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women were performing more than three-quarters of all unpaid care work – equating to roughly 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work done by women ...