Findings and recommendations, focussing on system change, from the final evaluation of the Harvest II Activity
Date: 30 April, 2020 09:00 BST (08:00 GMT) Speakers: Aly Miehlbradt, Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd Hans Posthumus, Hans Posthumus Consultancy Rachel Shah, The Springfield Centre Adam Kessler, DCED *If you signed …
A guide presenting a toolkit of methods useful for systemic change programmes.
Revisiting on of the Lab's first projects using a systems approach, 10 years after it closed
The need to ‘prove results’ in job creation easily creates incentives for unsustainable quick fixes that do not shift the conditions holding problems in place.
There are two schools of thought in the MSD community as to how to go about assessing systemic change. These are rooted in two different ways of seeing systems.
Practical steps to assessing systemic change on the ground
Assessing development outcomes beyond capturing numbers
Reaching those in the funding community who want to evolve their current model to invest in systems change approaches
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 …