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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A review of insights gained by Samriddhi in its support to livestock related and medicinal plant value chains in rural Bangladesh.
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 ...
This report analyses the impact of the Samarth Nepal Market Development Programme (NMDP) in its first year from May 2012 to April 2013. The five year programme aims to reduce ...
This case study reviews Katalyst's experience between 2005 - 2011 in Bangladesh, where the focus was on ICT development for rural farmers in partnership with relevant public and private sector ...
This case study explores Katalyst and its partner RTM International’s experience in improving the health care system in Bangladesh. The document highlights the symptoms of underperformance in the country’s health ...
The objective of this paper is to present a clear and transparent methodology for a precise and assessable formulation of what the concept ‘pro-poor’ means for Katalyst. The study is ...
This report evaluates the Growth-oriented Microenterprise Development Project (GMED) in India and its effectiveness in linking small-scale farmers to competitive value chains. Main findings The findings within this report indicate ...
This document is the report of an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Enterprise for Pro-Poor Growth (Enter-Growth) project in Sri Lanka. The evaluation assesses the extent to which the ...
Poverty reduction is the ultimate objective of both Market Development (M4P) and Sustainable Livelihoods approaches (SLA). However, the means by which to achieve this goal often differ. Realising the need ...
The report analyses the experience, impact and challenges of managing an integrating organic textile value chain based on two different models, one led by a business and the other by ...