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Moving beyond female participation

How ELAN RDC is upgrading women’s roles in DRC.

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 ...

Using a systemic approach to analyse the biotrade market system

In this blog post we present the case of ethical biotrade as an example that the systemic approach can create sustainable, positive environmental impacts and contribute to the preservation of ...

Quarterly Sector Reviews: putting adaptive management into practice

Insight into how Enterprise Partners learns from, and adapts, strategies and interventions.

Stimulating technology markets to tackle urban unemployment

DAI

An overview of the complexities involved in Market Systems Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territories including: a struggling economy shackled by absence of sovereignty restrictions on movement of goods and ...

Promoting rural income through support for markets in agriculture

Draft progress report and implementing plan for two programmes: Australia Indonesia Partnership for Promoting Rural Income through Support for Markets in Agriculture (AIP-PRISMA) Australia Indonesia Partnership for Strengthening Agricultural Finance ...

Sanitation markets systems in Bangladesh

iDE

Sanitation Market Systems in Bangladesh (SanMarkS) started in 2015 and focuses on sanitation product design and market research in order to meet Bangladesh’s sanitation goals faster and more effectively. This ...

Supporting Ethiopia’s industrial transformation

Enterprise Partners

Enterprise Partners is a social enterprise funded by DfID. It was established to facilitate agro-industrial growth and enable access to finance in Ethiopia. Its focus is on job and income ...

Palestine market development programme (PMDP)

DAI

A DFID-EU Palestinian Market Development Programme testing the market development approach in the Palestinian context. The programme aims to pilot market-based solutions to systemic constraints by introducing innovative business models ...

Market systems approach to better urban employment

ILO / MarketShare Associates

Poor quality jobs have severe impacts on workers and families trapped in perilous living and working conditions. How can a market systems approach to decent work help? A look at ...

The results achieved by programmes using the markets systems approach

ITAD / DCED / BEAM Exchange

Analysis of BEAM's Evidence Map shows sufficient evidenced examples to validate the MSD approach. But more could be done to improve the quality of 'evidence' produced by MSD programmes. How ...

Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF)

DAI

This programme aims to increase 150,000 women’s incomes and agency in Egypt, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It's focus is on WEE and a market systems approach. It is ...

Why building the plane while flying it is the only approach that works

MDF: Market Development Facility

Part 2 of four in the Messiness Series The second part of the Series builds on the Industry Life Cycle tool used in Part 1 and applies two further diagnostic ...

Creating jobs in urban waste management

This breakout session at the DCED / BEAM 2018 seminar explored how latrine services and other waste management services are creating job-rich opportunities for youth SMEs in emerging cities and ...

Building high performing MSD teams

Innovision Consulting

This presentation summarises part of the findings from the BEAM study on Building high performing teams for Market Systems Development. It examines the core competencies and practices of high-performing MSD ...

Accelerating Gaza’s tech ecosystem (SkyGeeks)

Mercy Corps

Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG) is the leading co-working space, pre-seed startup accelerator and technology education hub in Gaza. It aims to build an internationally competitive technology ecosystem in Palestine through ...

Creating decent work for women and youth migrating to cities

MEDA

This breakout session at the DCED / BEAM 2018 seminar explored how rapidly expanding urban sectors have great potential to provide decent work opportunities for disadvantaged women. It examined how ...