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Using data to promote women’s empowerment in MSD programmes: the experience of AWEF

Sharing some of the lessons learnt on effectively collecting and using data as part of the Arab Women Enterprise Fund.

Using Political Economy Analysis to improve the enabling environment for agricultural market systems

How thinking and working politically (TWP) through the use of applied political economy analysis (PEA) can help market systems practitioners.

Breaking down market barriers to benefit communities and biodiversity

PMSD, which stands for Participatory Market System Development, is not as complicated as it may sound!

Innovations in savings led input finance - the Fundo Agricola

Inov-Agro / DAI

Innovations for Agribusiness (InovAgro) is a private sector-led agriculture growth initiative that partners with companies seeking to engage with smallholder farmers in Mozambique. It has evolved to include the Fundo ...

Gender case studies and success stories across MADE’s value chain sectors

DAI Europe

This report documents case studies of Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) across selected interventions in Nigeria's MADE II programme. The objectives of the report include: to determine socio-economic gender characteristics and ...

Gender equality is everyone's business

Business Fights Poverty

If we are to deliver systemic change to achieve gender equality, men need to be part of the solution as well. The report includes practical actions that business can take ...

Cracking the Nut 2019 - leveraging systems for improved food security

Connexus

The 2019 conference focused on the need for international development practitioners to move from a 'project' to a 'systems' mentality in order to achieve sustainable and scalable impact. The conference ...

Oxfam Market Based Programming (MBP) guide

Oxfam

This visual guide describes Oxfam's Market Based Programming (MBP) approach: to consider existing markets - through assessments, analysis and programming - across all phases of a response and across all ...

Independent review of DFID Nigeria's Market Development in the Niger Delta project (MADE)

Nathan Associates

The overall focus of the review is to determine the extent to which MADE has achieved its objectives and contributed to the body of knowledge on market systems programmes, particularly ...

The Art of the Pivot…in the context of results-based management

Responding to moral dilemmas arising from interventions in MSD programmes

The antidote to systemic change frameworks

3sd.Research

While there are number of frameworks available that attempt to define systemic change, they are of limited value to those who have to go about assessing change. Whatever you think ...

The story of MSD: achieving sustainable development at scale

BEAM Exchange

The purpose of this publication is to communicate the results, versatility and implications of the MSD approach to a wide audience with a minimum of jargon. Practical experience in the ...

Enhancing rice productivity in Northern Uganda

Palladium

This case study presents NU-TEC MD’s experiences and lessons learnt in enhancing rice productivity in Northern Uganda and, specifically, in promoting the NamChe-5 variety amongst smallholder farmers. It also captures ...

Embracing complexity

Ashoka Deutschland gGmbH and McKinsey & Company, Inc.

This report is a collaborative effort of funders, intermediaries and systems change leaders who aim to send a signal to the social sector funding community - including philanthropists, foundations, impact ...

What future for small-scale agriculture?

Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford

Transforming small-scale family farming is critical to long-term global food and nutrition security, tackling rural poverty and hunger, and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report contributes to ...

Making the case for MSD #3: MDF 'Fodder for the future'

BEAM Exchange

Quickly communicate the nuts and bolts of the MSD approach to a wide range of audiences. This is one of a series of short slide presentations for MSD advocates. Each ...

Simple models vs complex realities: do our good intentions lead others into poverty traps?

The tendency to promote simple models fails to recognise more complex realities and causalities.

A systemic approach to creating more and better jobs

ILO, The Lab

This brief is aimed at ILO constituents and technical cooperation projects who are interested in using a systemic approach to bring about widespread and long-lasting decent work outcomes for workers ...

The journey of changing water services delivery in Kenya

Kenya Markets Trust

Case study of Kenya Markets Trust's (KMT) work at improving Kenya's water services delivery sub-sector. Only 26 per cent of the population is served by regulated providers. Current government investment ...

A systems thinking approach for energy markets in fragile places

Nature Energy

By adopting a market systems approach, aid can do more to ensure access to energy in fragile places is more effective and sustainable. Energy is a priority for refugees yet ...