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#Digital4MSME

GIZ

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of most economies in Sub-Saharan Africa.  When it comes to the digitalisation of businesses, both economic development programmes and the IT and tech industries ...

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 ...

Leveraging ICT to improve access to agricultural extension and mechanisation services

Applying a mix of methods to reach farmers, especially smallholder farmers, with much needed agronomic information can be instrumental to improving their farming practice, productivity, and curbing or preventing diseases. ...

Innovation for employment in Albania’s ICT sector

RisiAlbania

This case study forms part of a series of analyses of RisiAlbania’s market systems interventions in Albania’s ICT, Tourism and Agricultural sectors. It focuses on RisiAlbania’s efforts to take advantage of emerging ...

Youth digital agtech entrepreneurship in Africa

A dialogue on building alliances to support the growth of digital agriculture start-ups in Africa Join the AGRF and CTA during a dialogue to support the growth of digital agriculture ...

Upskilling & reskilling in the new normal

AIMS International Albania / Dynamics Partners,

This survey, commissioned by RisiAlbania, focuses on COVID-19's impact on the Albanian workforce. It explores the current workforce needs in upskilling and reskilling and sets out a roadmap for the ...

Reaching farmers online: future of agriculture marketing

Digital marketing serves as an answer to minimise the impact of COVID-19 in agriculture. Digital marketing provides means for businesses to sustain performance and revive the distribution of products or ...

Employment rewired: Youth Impact Labs learning event

BEAM Grab the Mic webinar in collaboration with Mercy Corps Date: 22 September 2020, 2-3pm UK time, 1pm UCT, 9am NY/DC, 4pm EAT/EEST (time converter) Speakers: Phil Greiner, Director of ...

Practical guidance for promoting digital inclusion

Innovations in digital technology as a result of COVID-19 are leaving some vulnerable groups even further behind

Opportunities & imperatives arising from COVID-19: guidance on more inclusive digital adoption

The Canopy Lab / Impact's Edge

The disruption of COVID-19 has fueled fast-paced innovation and uptake of digital technology in all spheres of life. It has also exacerbated the existing vulnerabilities of poor women and men, ...

Responding to COVID-19 and saving jobs in non-farm sectors

First hand experiences from projects in Bangladesh and Moldova and how they adapted their strategies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. You will hear how the project in Bangladesh is ...

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 ...

Market systems and Business Membership Organisations

Isaac Cowan-Gore

Advancing pro-poor development by working with local Business Membership Organisations (BMOs) can be resource-intensive, time-consuming and inherently risky as success can depend on addressing many different aspects impacting BMO. Pairing ...

Can development results last a decade?

The Lab, ILO

In market systems development programmes, is 'sustainability' a realistic project objective or just a baseless buzzword? One of the core selling points of using a systems approach is that the ...

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. ...

Market assessment of services for IT and ITES companies in Uganda

CBI Ministry of Foreign Affairs

An overview of the IT service and IT enabled service (ITES) market system in Uganda. It aims to identify critical root causes that prevent Ugandan IT and ITES companies from ...

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, ...

‛Creating markets’ to leverage the private sector for sustainable development and growth

Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) / World Bank (WB)

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and World Bank have a long history of market creation in its client countries. This report identifies many lessons from their experience through recent evaluations ...

Legal and Structural Barriers to Livelihoods for Refugees

This webinar explores the legal and structural barriers to refugees’ entry into markets in two contexts. Oxfam will explore findings from an emergency livelihoods study for returnees in Afghanistan and ...

PEP Zambia annual review 2019

DFID

PEPZ aims to tackle low levels of productivity and to increase the competitiveness of the private sector by strengthening the capacity of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). It does this ...