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Harnessing the power of complexity in development

Market systems are complex adaptive systems and market systems development is a complex task.

Cambodia energy sector

3i Investing in Infrastructure

Brief overview of the energy sector in Cambodia. It highlights potential sector investment opportunities for investors, project developers, operating companies and other entities which comply with global best practices for ...

Inclusive market systems development

World Vision Australia

Inclusive Market Systems Development is World Vision Australia’s approach to ensure that all people living in poverty can access, participate in and benefit from improved market systems. This paper looks ...

Managing messiness for success

MDF: Market Development Facility

Part 4 of four in the Messiness Series This paper discusses why and how an agile learning organisation is so important to respond to messiness when working with innovative MSD ...

Opportunities for Youth Employment (OYE)

The Opportunities for Youth Employment (OYE) identifies rural out-of-school youth and trains them in market-relevant skills in order to improve their employability.

How to move beyond crude gender targets to genuine empowerment

All MSD programmes recognise the necessity to mainstream gender in their activities. However, too often the collection and analysis of gender-disaggregated data does not lead to informed strategies for effective ...

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 ...

Revitalising agriculture in Northern Uganda

LTS International

This case study tells the story of a cotton processing trading company (GADC in Northern Uganda) through the eyes of the farmers it supports, the people it employs and the ...

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.

Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW)

DFID

WOW aims to provide women with access to improved economic opportunities through business interventions in supply chains and economic development programmes. The Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme is ...

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 ...

Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk

DFID

A research, advice and technical assistance service on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). It provides three main services: On demand, tailored ‘query’ service ranging from one-day mini queries to 16-day assignments ...