83 search results

Advanced training workshop in results measurement for private sector development

1-5 November and 15-19 November 2021 This unique training workshop, held every two years, brings together experienced results measurement practitioners to share lessons learned, solve common and emerging problems, exchange ...

Starring women - towards more inclusive agricultural services across Africa

ICCO

Using an MSD approach the Strengthening African Rural Smallholders (STARS) programme improves the lives of smallholder farmers in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Senegal. This brief describes some of the challenges ...

Enterprise Partners’ Monitoring and Results Measurement System and DCED experience

Enterprise Partners

This paper looks at and describes Enterprise Partners’ (EP) Monitoring and Result Measurement (MRM) system, the programme’s application of the different elements of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) standard and ...

Facilitating inclusive growth in Ethiopia: think systemically, act strategically, adjust frequently for best results

Enterprise Partners

Compilation of five case studies about market system transformation at a time when the Government of Ethiopia was just beginning to embrace the private sector as a development partner to ...

Youth, women, and Market Systems Development in agriculture and supporting markets

Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE)

A landscape analysis and four case studies to explore the intended and unintended consequences of MSD approaches to youth’s and women’s inclusion in agriculture and supporting markets to understand more about: what gender- ...

Keeping firms and supply chains afloat in the age of COVID-19

How are firms and their supply chains evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic? Can certain interventions help them stay afloat? The pandemic is disrupting financial systems that until recently, were expanding ...

COVID-19 impact studies

Innovision Consulting

Innovision Consulting is undertaking primary research in Bangladesh on low-income occupational groups to assess the impact of COVID 19 on their livelihoods. The data and analysis for each occupational group ...

Fintechs report .MZ

FSDMoç

An overview report on fintechs in Mozambique and FSDMoç's engagement with them. The Financial Sector Deepening, Moçambique (FSDMoç) is a six-year programme whose mission is to identify and partner with ...

Exploring USAID’s New Finance Wiki

Join the USAID Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Team and partner Deloitte for an interactive session exploring the new Finance Wiki on Marketlinks. Presenters will share why the Wiki was developed, ...

Eight lessons on making digital financial inclusion work for women in MENA

Tackling the financial inclusion gender gap to improve women's financial independence and employment prospects.

Does Market Systems Development work for women's financial empowerment?

Working in Jordan and Egypt, the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) stimulates increased women’s economic empowerment through a market systems approach. As AWEF comes to an end in April 2020, ...

Making digital finance work for women in the MENA region

AWEF

Despite progress over the past few years, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region still has the largest gender gap in terms of women’s economic participation in the world. ...

Evaluation of mobile money uptake - FSDMoç

FSDMoç

The Financial Services Deepening Mozambique (FSDMoç) is a six-year programme whose mission is to identify and partner with key market stakeholders, offering targeted investments and insights to promote the financial ...

Drivers and barriers of regulatory change processes in digital finance: lessons for funders

The first of two webinars looking at how funders can support regulatory change processes in a more systemic way. Speakers: Barbara Scola, CGAP / Patrick Meagher, CGAP / Ahmed Dermish, ...

Impact Capital Africa under the Private Enterprise Programme Zambia (PEPZ)

PEPZambia

This case study highlights an intervention conducted under the Business Services for Investment and Growth intervention, designed to overcome a critical constraint of SME finance in Zambia. All growth-oriented businesses ...

Systems change: an emerging practice in impact investing

Enclude

Impact investors are increasingly engaging in 'systems practice' to better understand the underlying causes to social and environmental problems and to identify high leverage solutions to advance positive systems change. ...

Exploring the adoption of housing microfinance within the Georgian market

Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

MicroBuild Fund, an initiative of Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter, aims to increase access to affordable housing finance products and services for low-income households globally by providing ...

Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) mainstreaming in DFID’s PSD programme in the DRC

Decision Support Unit

DFID's DRC programme has sought to mainstream GESI throughout its programmes. It used programme logframes to incentivise focus on GESI and each project adopted different approaches to mainstreaming and measuring ...

Bank and non-bank agents in Mozambique

FSDMoç

The Financial Services Deepening Mozambique (FSDMoç) is a programme that focuses on expanding financial inclusion in the country. It commissioned Digital Disruptions, a boutique consulting firm in financial services and ...