1082 resources

What is systemic change?

3sd Research

Why do we lack a precise definition for 'systemic change' despite over a decade of implementing market systems programmes with the explicit goal of systemic change? This paper uses Mechanisms ...

Poultry sector study

IMC Worldwide

Study highlighting the main challenges in the poultry value chain and to understand what has been done by DFID-funded programmes and others to address these. Poultry is increasing in importance ...

Lessons & recommendations for promoting structured trade & systemic change in market development programmes

itad

This brief presents lessons and recommendations on how market development programmes can promote structured trade and systemic change. It draws on the findings of the FoodTrade East and Southern Africa ...

Choppy Waters

ELAN RDC

This paper describes ÉLAN RDC's advocacy campaign, working with boat operators, traders and provincial authorities, for the elimination of informal and illegal taxes. For many small farmers in the northern ...

The last frontier for energy access

ELAN RDC

This paper discusses current opportunities and barriers to the development of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) solar industry. It looks at the potential of public-private initiatives in helping ...

Disruptive technologies for private sector development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Decision Support Unit (DSU)

Insight into how new technologies should be promoted to support development of the private sector in the DRC. This paper discusses why technologies cannot be copied and pasted from one ...

Stimulating the potato value chain in Zambia

AgDevCo

Saise is Zambia’s first seed potato producer. This study explores how AgDevCo’s investment has contributed to the expansion of the value chain and encouraged commercial farming in Zambia’s neglected Northern ...

Shomoshti MRM manual

CARE Bangladesh

This MRM manual for the Shomoshti programme in Bangladesh has followed the DCED Standards for Results Measurement for its Monitoring and Results Measurement (MRM) system. The whole Shomoshti MRM system ...

How DFID can better manage complexity in development programming

ODI

DFID increasingly recognises that complex problems require flexible systems to support testing, learning and adaptation. But when, how and why should DFID deploy their staff resources? And how can DFID ...

Transforming communities in Northern Malawi

AgDevCo

Tropha is a commercial macadamia, chilli and paprika farmer in Northern Malawi. This study explores how Tropha is beginning to catalyse growth in the macadamia value chain through crowding-in and ...

Enabling resilience for pastoral communities in Ethiopia

Mercy Corps

Led by Mercy Corps and implemented by a consortium of national and international organisations, PRIME interventions helped strengthen the systems that pastoralists operate in so that they can earn higher ...

Leaving no one behind

The 'leave no one behind' challenge - assessing the evidence for MSD in Australia's aid programme.

Commercial agriculture Portfolio review 2018 for DFID

IMC Worldwide

Compilation and analysis of the portfolio of projects covering commercial agriculture. Commercial agriculture makes up an important part of DFID’s activities and the Conceptual Framework for Agriculture. It is important ...

Fintech for women: scaling the financial inclusion pyramid in Egypt

Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund's (AWEF) study in Egypt on leveraging 'Fintech' innovations to create meaningful financial solutions for low-income people, especially poor or disadvantaged women.

How should donors manage adaptively? Market Systems Development as a case study.

Itad has recently completed a strategic evaluation for Sida to help them work through how they can best manage programmes that are adaptive and apply systems approaches.

Bangladesh USAID Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) project - final report

USAID

Final report of the Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) project in Bangladesh which closed in January 2019. The USAID Agricultural Value Chain (AVC) Activity worked to enhance long-term food security in ...

Refugee economies in Uganda

Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

A report exploring how Uganda's refugee policies influence welfare outcomes for refugees and host communities. Uganda’s refugee policies have been widely recognised as among the most progressive in the world. ...

Market systems development in fragile contexts

Sida

A synthesis of how Sida, as a donor, could implement more inclusive and sustainable interventions in fragile contexts and reach the most vulnerable whilst avoiding doing harm to the local ...

ALCP annual report 2018-2019

ALCP

Annual Report April 2018 to March 2019. The Alliances programme, a market system development programme working in the livestock market system in Georgia, began in 2008. It is now in ...

Doing business in Dadaab, Kenya

ILO / UNHCR

Focusing on Dadaab, Kenya, this study provides a market system analysis for interventions aimed at enabling the self-reliance of refugees and host communities, and thereby contributing to a broader local ...