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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. ...

COVID-19 impact studies

Innovision Consulting

Innovision Consulting is undertaking primary research in Bangladesh on low-income occupational groups to assess the impact of COVID 19 on their livelihoods. The data and analysis for each occupational group ...

ALCP annual report 2019-2020

ALCP

Annual Report April 2019 to March 2020. The Alliances programme is a market systems development programme working in the livestock market system in Georgia. It is in its third and ...

Pathways to systemic change in Kenya's livestock sector

Kenya Markets Trust (KMT)

KMT has been active in the livestock sector since 2013. This report outline the pathways to systemic change taken by KMT during that time. It focuses on what interventions were ...

Market systems resilience mitigates COVID-19 impact on smallholder farmers

DAI

InovAgro leads initiatives to develop stronger, more inclusive, commercially driven and competitive market systems for agricultural input supply in Northern Mozambique. As COVID-19 restrictions change the ways businesses and farmers ...

Breathing new life into our market systems work

During 2020 Practical Action is revamping its Participatory Markets Systems Development (PMSD) approach to be more accessible, suit specific contexts and better address resilience, gender and the private sector.

Eight lessons on making digital financial inclusion work for women in MENA

Tackling the financial inclusion gender gap to improve women's financial independence and employment prospects.

Does scale matter?

How will all the nine billion people in the world of 2030 obtain safe, good food?

Impossible choices – questioning assumptions behind lock-down in low income and fragile contexts

COVID-19 response – checking our assumptions for fragile and low capacity countries.

Market systems approach – all about business, really?

If we are to be useful allies to poor people then it is important we understand the difference between businesses and market systems.

Should we create decent work or make work more decent? Demystifying what decent work means for Market System Development projects

Focusing on job creation alone is not enough. Low quality jobs are precisely what keeps people locked into cycles of poverty.

COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade

Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor rely on to buy and sell fresh food. Danielle Resnick argues that as governments impose COVID-19 restrictions, informal ...

Research methods for systemic change programmes

Agora Global

A guide presenting a toolkit of methods useful for systemic change programmes. Those involved in systemic change programmes - funders, practitioners and evaluators - come from a wide range of ...

COVID-19 and MSD resources

Here is a quick reference list of the latest resources and blogs which describe the impact of COVID-19 and the responses of MSD Programmes available on the BEAM Exchange Guidance ...

Markets in Crises (MiC) statement on COVID-19

Markets in Crises (MiC)

A statement from Markets in Crises (MiC) about the COVID-19 global humanitarian and development crisis. Using MiC's collective wisdom gained from previous crises the statement lists the short, medium and ...

Accelerating tourism’s impact on jobs

ILO Lab

The Lab has taken stock from seven of its tourism markets systems analyses to understand the common challenges and opportunities in a wide array of contexts. Positive growth in tourism ...

Business resilience analysis: COVID-19

USAID

This rapid survey has been developed to gather primary data to understand the impact and responses by enterprises in Honduras to mitigate, adapt to and recover from the Covid-19 crisis. ...

Can development results last a decade?

The Lab, ILO

In market systems development programmes, is 'sustainability' a realistic project objective or just a baseless buzzword? One of the core selling points of using a systems approach is that the ...

Making digital finance work for women in the MENA region

AWEF

Despite progress over the past few years, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region still has the largest gender gap in terms of women’s economic participation in the world. ...

Promoting economic transformation through Business Environment Reform and Market Systems Development

DCED

This short note synthesises two studies commissioned by the DCED on how donors and development agencies can support economic transformation through Business Environment Reform (BER)-related activities and the Market Systems ...

Measuring impact, managing failure

Clara Garcia Parra of Helvetas interviews Susanne Thiard-Laforet of the Austrian Development Agency to discuss 'impact' from the donor perspective and to share thoughts on learning from failure.