Independent evaluation of SDC-funded agriculture projects that had major elements of MSD
Practical steps to assessing systemic change on the ground
Assessing development outcomes beyond capturing numbers
A new framework to to improve interventions’ chances of achieving sustainability and scale
A stock-taking of different approaches and methods used for measuring systemic change
Evidence of the effectiveness of the MSD approach is not strong enough - what can we do to change this?
Measuring how long a programme's impact lasts is crucial to understanding its sustainability.
Why do we lack a precise definition for 'systemic change' despite over a decade of implementing market systems programmes with the explicit goal of systemic change?
Defining systemic change using Mechanisms of Social Change (MOSC)
Development programmes working in complex environments need to understand the context they work in, monitor changes, and adapt their work accordingly. This sounds simple but is challenging in practice. DevLearn’s …
Incentivising Nigerian smallholder farmers to use a bio control to protect their maize.
A focus on resilience at the systems level and how to assess markets system resilience.
On its 13th edition, The Annual Regional BDS Conference remains one of the largest learning platform to advance the practice of market system development and value chain facilitation within East …
As part of the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab, Itad and The SEEP Network developed a searchable, interactive evidence map that provides consolidated access to relevant evidence related to savings-focused …
Monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL) is not meant to focus just on project performance. Thus, the USAID's Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity has developed new MEL tools to …
The annual Summer Academy of Mesopartner is targeted at experienced professionals involved in designing, implementing and facilitating economic development processes and building team capacity. Territories are becoming more and more …
Describing systems change and how to apply it in foundations and achieve lasting change
Although a valuable tool for analysing market systems, network analysis is challenging to implement and has yet to be deployed extensively by international development practitioners.
Independent evaluation of the SMSU sanitation programme in rural Cambodia
Lessons from MDF Phase 1 on how systemic change happens in shallow markets and the implications for MSD practitioners.
Guidance and case examples on taking a purposeful, hypothesis-based approach to managing intervention strategies within a development programme.