1296 resources

PAVE systems change study

MEDA / Engro foundation

Findings of a qualitative study to measure systems-level impacts of the PAVE Pakistan project. The study findings suggest systemic change has been initiated at the individual, community and institutional level ...

COVID-19 survey results

MEDA

Survey conduceted with married female farmers paricipating in PAVE Pakistan. The aim was to get an idea of how life, workloads and household dynamics of female farmers have been impacted ...

Getting Africa’s youth working

ILO Lab & Mastercard Foundation

A look at the characteristics of labour markets in sub-Saharan Africa drawing lessons from programmes that use a market systems approach to make these markets work better for young people. ...

Child’s play

The Lab, ILO

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women were performing more than three-quarters of all unpaid care work – equating to roughly 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work done by women ...

Youth, women, and Market Systems Development in agriculture and supporting markets

Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE)

A landscape analysis and four case studies to explore the intended and unintended consequences of MSD approaches to youth’s and women’s inclusion in agriculture and supporting markets to understand more ...

Impact of COVID-19: sectoral heat map for Bangladesh

Innovision Consulting

Development of a framework, using a market systems perspective, to understand the comparative impact of COVID-19 on different sectors. This, timebound, sectoral heat map aims to help policy makers, development ...

Decisive structures: procurement format options for MSD programmes and their different implications

BEAM Exchange

As the size and ambition of flagship MSD programmes has grown, expectations of transparency and fair competition in their procurement processes have too. Increasingly, such programmes involve not just one, ...

Getting off the ground: practical lessons for the launch phase of MSD programmes

BEAM Exchange

The early stages of an MSD programme are some of the most chaotic: a flurry of new people, processes and information combines with pressures for updates, progress and even results. ...

From guidelines to practice: a market-based approach to post-Covid recovery in forced displacement settings

ILO / UNHCR

How can the recovery response take into account the specific needs of refugees and host communities? What role can be played by the humanitarian-development-peacebuilding nexus in the immediate and long-term ...

Silver bullet or last resort? Business Membership Organisations in MSD

Why is it that development practitioners can be wary of partnering with Business Membership Organisations (BMOs)?

Can results last a decade? Understanding sustainability for post-covid19 responses

Understanding if and how a systems project can bring about sustainable change

Delivery strategy for market development programmes

Market Development in the Niger Delta (MADE)

Market Development in the Niger Delta (MADE) and Partnership Initiative for Niger Delta (PIND) are implementing MSD programmes within the Niger Delta region. This document reviews their experiences over the ...

Industrial policy for Economic Transformation in Uganda

Centre for Development Alternatives / Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

After three decades of neo-liberal economic management, and faced with stalled transformation, the Government of Uganda (GoU) is showing a renewed interest and confidence in proactive industrial policy. A National ...

Better cheese, better work

ALCP / ILO

The study found that the Alliances Caucasus Programme (ALCP) interventions contributed to a fundamental, sustainable and large-scale change in the Georgian dairy market system, which is still ongoing. This study ...

Market systems and Business Membership Organisations

Isaac Cowan-Gore

Advancing pro-poor development by working with local Business Membership Organisations (BMOs) can be resource-intensive, time-consuming and inherently risky as success can depend on addressing many different aspects impacting BMO. Pairing ...

Making effective use of grants and technical assistance to support financial institutions

CDC / Tandem

Investments in financial institutions make up approximately one third of CDC’s portfolio. This research focuses on understanding the opportunities to use technical assistance and grants effectively within the financial sector, ...

Engaging the private sector for a market-led recovery

MDF: Market Development Facility

COVID-19 presents an unprecedented health and economic challenge, which will have lasting impacts, particularly for Australia’s closest neighbours in Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. This paper draws on ...

COVID-19 and a rapid analysis of Honduran enterprises' capacity to cope

The importance of resilience, and the ability to adapt to shocks, for businesses in Honduras

MSD programmes need to adapt and innovate due to COVID-19

The longer term impact of COVID-19 in Uganda is still very unclear, but we cannot sit by and just 'wait and see'.

Time to #BuildBackBetter the tourism sector to create more and better jobs?

One new job in tourism creates one and a half indirect jobs, but COVID-19 has put a halt to that.