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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 Canoty 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Annual Regional BDS Conference

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 ...

Poverty assessment of the Niger Delta

PIND

A poverty assessment of Market Development (MADE) in the Niger Delta Programme and the Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) was initiated in May 2018 to establish a deeper ...

SPRING Businesses at Social Capital Markets (SOCAP)

SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) is in the vanguard of the emerging global impact economy, convening ideas and capital to catalyse world change. SOCAP18 will convene over 3,000 impact investors, world-class ...

A national review of information impact in Alliances

Alliances Caucasus Programme (ALCP)

Case study profiling nine years of information intervention facilitation by the Alliances Caucasus Programme (ALCP). Since 2008 the programme has sought to improve the ability of the Georgian media to ...

How do you spot and grab an opportunity?

Applying the systemic approach in complex environments: youth employment in Albania and spotting opportunities in the ICT sector

Accelerating Gaza’s tech ecosystem (SkyGeeks)

Mercy Corps

Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG) is the leading co-working space, pre-seed startup accelerator and technology education hub in Gaza. It aims to build an internationally competitive technology ecosystem in Palestine through ...

Promoting systemic change in shallow markets

MDF: Market Development Facility

This paper is based on the experience and lessons learnt by the Australian-funded Market Development Facility (MDF). MDF was implemented by Cardno during Phase I (2011-2017) and Palladium and Swisscontact ...

ENABLE2 project closure report

ASI / Springfield Centre

Enhancing Nigerian Advocacy for a Better Business Environment 2 (ENABLE2) is a DfID-funded business environment programme. It focuses on improving the quality and quantity of business advocacy and public-private dialogue ...

Growth in Rural Economy & Agriculture in Tajikistan (GREAT)

IMC Worldwide

Final evaluation report for Growth in Rural Economy & Agriculture in Tajikistan (GREAT). GREAT's objective was to increase inclusive rural economic growth in Tajikistan.

Digital Financial Services (DFS) market strategy

Enterprise Partners (EP)

Enterprise Partners (EP) is a social enterprise facilitating market development to create jobs and raise incomes of Ethiopians living with poverty, particularly women.

Geodata and ICT solutions for inclusive finance and food security

ICCO / Fair & Sustainable

This paper presents an overview of the possibilities and challenges of using geo-data and ICTs to improve agricultural production and access to finance for smallholder farmers. Besides access to finance, ...