Results

Featured resource

Bridging the gap: unlocking synergies between private sector development and development finance

Gatsby Africa / British International Investment

How development finance and PSD might be better applied in tandem to drive transformational change within sectors

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Report
April 2022
Market system diagnosis

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

A tool to provide guidance as to how to conduct a thorough market diagnostic

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Tools
November 2021
Developing the offer

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

A short primer outlining how to develop a support offer to potential partners

Resource
Tools
November 2021
Developing BMOs

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

A short brief on how to set up business model organisations (BMOs)

Resource
Tools
November 2021
Intelligence gathering

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

Guidance on how to gather intelligence within your chosen market system

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Tools
November 2021
“How to” manage adaptively in value chain development projects

ILO

A 'how to' to help programmes manage adaptively, rather than implement by blueprint

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Tools
November 2021
Sector selection & portfolio development

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

High-level advice on how to go about sector selection in a Market Systems Development

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Tools
November 2021
SCALE reflection tool

Argidius Foundation

Part of a broader suite of tools meant to help teams in driving the growth of small and growing businesses (SGBs)

Resource
Tools
November 2021
SDC’s performance in Market System Development in agriculture 2013 - 2019

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Independent evaluation of SDC-funded agriculture projects that had major elements of MSD

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Report
October 2021
Gender-Smart Investing in MENA

Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF)

Why it makes business sense to invest in women

Resource
Guidance
October 2021
Improving energy access for refugees in Rwanda

Practical Action

Bringing about systemic market changes to deliver sustainable energy to refugees

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Report
October 2021
Addressing Gender Norms to Increase Financial Inclusion

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)

A technical guide for those working to increase women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment

Resource

1st October 2021
Primer on private sector engagement in fragile and conflict-affected situations

MSP

Strategically engaging the private sector in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations

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Tools
September 2021
Outcomes of the MSD procurement knowledge clinics

BEAM Exchange

Outcomes of clinics on designing and managing procurement processes for MSD programmes

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Report
September 2021
Advancing equality and empowerment in solar home systems business models: the critical role of the gender audit

The Canopy Lab

Gender audits of two MSD programmes in Africa

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Guidance
September 2021
How is COVID-19 impacting the talent pipeline of market systems development activities?

Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity

COVID-19 has exacerbated systemic inequalities in the international development sector

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Case study
August 2021
Housing market systems change wheel

Habitat for Humanity's Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Explores examples of pathways that a housing and construction market system may take as the system becomes more inclusive.

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Tools
August 2021
Measuring job creation in private sector development

MarketShare Associates

A tool for measuring job creation in MSD programmes

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Tools
August 2021
Incentive and capability scorecard

Agora Global

A tool meant to guide implementers in assessing the drivers and barrier to a given behaviour change

Resource
Tools
August 2021
Creating a gender equality policy

TechnoServe

Guidance on the process to write a gender equality policy

Resource
Tools
August 2021
The 2018 reader on results measurement

Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)

An introduction to the DCED Standard for results measurement

Resource
Tools
August 2021

Resource library: 1297 results

Featured resource

Bridging the gap: unlocking synergies between private sector development and development finance

Gatsby Africa / British International Investment

Market system diagnosis

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

Developing the offer

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

Developing BMOs

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

Intelligence gathering

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

“How to” manage adaptively in value chain development projects

ILO

Sector selection & portfolio development

Swisscontact & The Springfield Centre

SCALE reflection tool

Argidius Foundation

SDC’s performance in Market System Development in agriculture 2013 - 2019

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Gender-Smart Investing in MENA

Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF)

Improving energy access for refugees in Rwanda

Practical Action

Addressing Gender Norms to Increase Financial Inclusion

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)

Primer on private sector engagement in fragile and conflict-affected situations

MSP

Outcomes of the MSD procurement knowledge clinics

BEAM Exchange

Advancing equality and empowerment in solar home systems business models: the critical role of the gender audit

The Canopy Lab

How is COVID-19 impacting the talent pipeline of market systems development activities?

Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity

Housing market systems change wheel

Habitat for Humanity's Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Measuring job creation in private sector development

MarketShare Associates

Incentive and capability scorecard

Agora Global

Creating a gender equality policy

TechnoServe

The 2018 reader on results measurement

Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)

Evidence