Read about the tools USAID's LEO project is using to capture systemic change.
Marcus Jenal introduces a new series of webinars on tools to measure systemic change which are focusing on the USAID-funded project, Feed the Future Uganda.
Our third webinar on systemic M&E; focused on the challenges and potential of SenseMaker.
Read how network analysis has helped the USAID project see how the system changes.
How we can better measure systemic change.
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.
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?
Leaning into the messiness of systemic change is critical, which is why climate change efforts and MSD approaches need each other.
Monitoring systems need to be more than measuring indicators; they should be a practical tool for supporting emergent change.
Identifying systemic change and more inclusive market systems development in the USAID Bangladesh Agriculture Value Chains (AVC) programme.
Market systems resilience connects systemic change and sustainability
Understanding if and how a systems project can bring about sustainable change
We've developed A pragmatic approach to assessing system change that programmes can apply themselves
Measuring how long a programme's impact lasts is crucial to understanding its sustainability.
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.
A theory of change is fundamental to project design; it posits the changes that need to happen for a project to address problems and achieve a given purpose.
During 2020 Practical Action is revamping its Participatory Markets Systems Development (PMSD) approach to be more accessible, suit specific contexts and better address resilience, gender and the private sector.
Are you hesitating to assess system change?
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.
From my perspective as a practitioner trying to apply market systems thinking, there are important challenges in the way scale has been interpreted and in how that interpretation is applied …