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Selecting the road to more and better Jobs

ILO Lab

The ILO operates a wide range of programmes and projects in Asia Pacific focusing on relief and development challenges. Road to Jobs (R2J) is a three-year project that aims to ...

Promoting economic recovery in Nepal: cash coordination in action

Every disaster is different, and humanitarian agencies are constantly learning and improving their responses based on prior experience, write William Wallis and Alesh Brown.

Market Development Facility (MDF) phase 1 - Annual aggregation of results 2014

Market Development Facility

Market Development Facility (Phase 1) annual aggregation of results for January - December 2014. The Market Development Facility (MDF) is DFAT Australia’s flagship private sector development programme in the Indo-Pacific ...

CARE's dairy value chain: Making markets work for smallholder farmers in Bangladesh

Many of us dream of a world free from poverty, but how can this be realistically achieved, especially for smallholder farmers who make up the majority of the world's poor?

Strengthening public extension service delivery to farmers in Bangladesh

Mahmud Zaman explains how the LAN project aims to increase farm productivity and efficiency.

Using market facilitation for recovery in Nepal

Market Development Forum Nepal (MDFN)

Lessons learnt from post-disaster market systems approaches in action following the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The Market Development Forum Nepal (MDFN) organised a peer learning event in Kathmandu, Nepal in November ...

Monitoring program progress

The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)

This case study looks at how to monitor results in order to help manage and steer a programme. It presents the experiences of M4C in Bangladesh, concentrating on how they ...

Quality vegetable seed in mini-packs

Kayalyst

Agri-business for Trade Competitiveness Project (ATC-P) - branded as 'Katalyst' - is a market development project focusing on increasing the incomes of poor men and women in rural areas of ...

Measuring attribution: Samarth-NMDP in Nepal

Samarth-NMDP

Measuring impact in private sector development programmes is important but also challenging. This case explains how Samarth-NMDP selected the Quasi-Experimental Design Method and why Samarth-NMDP considers it the most appropriate ...

Engaging the private sector in market analysis after the Nepal earthquakes

Samarth NMDP

This paper outlines the experience of an established market development programme in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes in its attempts to provide analytical support to the private sector ...

Katalyst phase 2 hightlights

Katalyst

Katalyst is a market systems programme that aims to contribute to increasing the income of poor men and women in rural areas of Bangladesh. This paper captures some of the ...

Understanding systemic change in the vegetable seed market

FHI 360

The paper presents findings from an investigation of changes in the vegetable market system in Bangladesh, resulting from the introduction of seed mini-packets and related innovations in communication of information ...

Improving public agricultural extension services in Bangladesh using the M4P approach

Katalyst

The Katalyst programme has been successful in adding new dimensions to Bangladesh's public extension system, the experience of which has left the programme with several insights that may be of ...

Value chain development for inclusive and sustainable market systems in Bangladesh - Samrhiddhi

Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation

A review of insights gained by Samriddhi in its support to livestock-related and medicinal plant value chains in rural Bangladesh. Main findings Addressing locally-identified constraints had the effect of improving ...

Samarth - Nepal Market Development Programme (NMDP)

Nepal Market Development Programme (NMDP)

This report analyses the impact of the Samarth Nepal Market Development Programme (NMDP) in its second year from May 2013 to April 2014 on reducing poverty. The five year project ...

A market-led, evidence based, approach to rural sanitation

Monitor Inclusive Markets

The Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements (3SI) project in Bihar works to increase access to, and use of, improved sanitation facilities and services through market-based suppliers. Lack of sanitation is an ...

A market led, evidence based, approach to rural sanitation

Monitor Inclusive Markets

This white paper focuses on supply side market-based approaches to scale rural sanitation in India, based mainly on findings from the PSI-led “Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements” (3SI) project in Bihar ...

Capitalisation of Samriddhi's experiences on private rural service system

An assessment on the growth of Samriddhi’s Private Rural Service Provider System and its facilitative impact on the development of market linkages in livestock-related and medicinal plant value chains in ...

The JITA sales network: An inclusive business on the rise

Business Innovation Facility

This document explores the development of JITA, a socially inclusive business that evolved from an NGO to an enterprise and sales network that operates in rural Bangladesh. JITA has partnered ...

Making markets work for poor and extreme poor women in Bangladesh: The experience of Samriddhi

HELVETAS

A review of insights gained by Samriddhi in its support to livestock related and medicinal plant value chains in rural Bangladesh.