Covid-19 put the informal economy back in the spotlight - in June 2020, the ILO estimated a partial or full lock down would impact 1.6 billion informal workers. This brief ...
First in a Knowledge Series introducing key approaches of GREAT and the context in which the programme operates. GREAT is supporting agriculture and tourism businesses in Son La and Lao ...
Analysis of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Nepal following the economic fallout of COVID-19 and possible pathways for recovery for Nepal's agri and tourism SMEs. SMEs in Nepal ...
One new job in tourism creates one and a half indirect jobs, but COVID-19 has put a halt to that.
The Lab has taken stock from seven of its tourism markets systems analyses to understand the common challenges and opportunities in a wide array of contexts. Positive growth in tourism ...
MDF is Australia’s flagship private sector development programme in the Indo-Pacific region. Through the MSD approach it is making innovative efforts to engage the private sector in the promotion of ...
This paper reports on the findings of a synthesis review of DFAT’s Market Systems Development initiatives. The review also explored the extent to which MSD approaches can achieve impact across ...
Final report of the DFID-funded evaluation of the Samarth Nepal Market Development Programme (Samarth-NMDP) in Nepal. Samarth-NMDP was the first programme in Nepal to be designed according to the M4P ...
Strongim Bisnis (SB) is an Australian Government initiative working with the private sector and Solomon Islands Government to make a strong, positive and lasting impact through business growth. Tackling the ...
This final report provides key results for the Increasing Market Employability (IME) programme in Macedonia for the implementation period of January 2018 to March 2019. The IME programme aims for ...
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 ...
PMDP stimulates a more competitive Palestinian private sector by encouraging companies to grow and export, tackling systemic market constraints and fostering an improved trade and investment environment. While PMDP works ...
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 ...
Market Development Facility (Phase 2) annual aggregation of results for January - November 2017. The Market Development Facility (MDF) is Australia’s flagship private sector development programme in the Indo-Pacific region. ...
MDF is Australia’s flagship private sector development programme in the Indo-Pacific region. Through the MSD approach it is making innovative efforts to engage the private sector in the promotion of ...
Practical experiences developing and marketing community based cultural tourism in Kayah, Myanmar through tourism supply chain. This Manual presents lessons learned, between 2014 and 2017, implementing the project NTF III ...
This manual provides information about tourism services and activities in and around Loikaw, Kayah State, Mayanmar. This includes hotels, restaurants, local tour operators and tour guides and creative and cutural ...
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 ...
The Market Development Facility (MDF) is a flagship programme of the Australian government. It focusses on kick-starting the development of promising economic activities including in agribusiness, tourism and manufacturing. Timor-Leste ...