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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 ...

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 ...

Developing media market systems to address agricultural constraints

Springfield Centre

Partnering with mass media to provide much needed agricultural information to farmers whilst also benefiting media ratings and revenues. The Alliances Caucuses Programme (ALCP) in Georgia was established to increase ...

Does market development work in Nepal?

Itad

A Learning Note from Itad following the completion of an evaluation of Samarth-NMDP1 for DFID. This is the first market systems programme in Nepal and Itad discusses: whether the programme ...

The benefit of hindsight: how market systems theory could have predicted Aflasafe uptake in Nigeria

Incentivising Nigerian smallholder farmers to use a bio control to protect their maize.

Improving the economic benefits of landholders in Ethiopia

How the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme is helping the rural poor in Ethiopia.

Evaluation of the market systems development approach - Volume I

Sida

This report presents the findings of an evaluation of Sida’s management of the market systems development (MSD) approach. It aims to inform thinking on how Sida can best manage its ...

Evaluation of the market systems development approach - Volume II

Sida

This report presents the case studies for the evaluation of Sida’s management of the market systems development (MSD) approach. The case studies assessed eleven MSD projects funded by Sida in ...

Private Sector Development in fragile and conflict-affected states

Decision Support Unit (DSU)

This learning brief presents some of the key lessons learned in delivering DFID’s Private Sector Developemnt (PSD) programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It draws on case studies ...

Putting the value in land titling

Land rights value chain and market systems development - what is a land title worth?