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Harnessing the power of complexity in development

Market systems are complex systems and market systems development is a complex task. This statement reflects the reality market systems practitioners encounter in their work: market systems are dynamic with ...

Mesopartner Summer Academy 2018 on Economic Development

The annual Summer Academy of Mesopartner is targeted at experienced professionals involved in designing, implementing and facilitating economic development processes and building team capacity. Territories are becoming more and more ...

Harnessing the power of complexity in development

Market systems are complex adaptive systems and market systems development is a complex task.

Managing messiness for success

MDF: Market Development Facility

Part 4 of four in the Messiness Series This paper discusses why and how an agile learning organisation is so important to respond to messiness when working with innovative MSD ...

From the inside out

USAID Learning Lab

USAID Learning Lab podcast series on Adaptive Management A four-episode pilot series on Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) providing an overview of the concept of CLA and featured CLA case ...

Designed to fail

Springfield Centre

How to design programmes to allow adaptive management The development world is abuzz with discussions about how ‘adaptive management’ is critical to more effective aid. Proponents argue that iterative but ...

Let core principles guide the artful choice between ‘proscriptive orthodoxy’ and ‘anything goes’

MDF: Market Development Facility

Part 3 of four in the Messiness Series The final section of the series outlines some of the implications distilled from MDF’s experiences as relevant to a range of contributors ...

Quarterly Sector Reviews: putting adaptive management into practice

Insight into how Enterprise Partners learns from, and adapts, strategies and interventions.

Analysing the causes of messiness via two further diagnostic tools

MDF: Market Development Facility

Part 2 of four in the Messiness Series The second part of the Series builds on the Industry Life Cycle tool used in Part 1 and applies two further diagnostic ...

Why and how embracing messiness is the key to success

MDF: Market Development Facility

Part 1 of four in the Messiness Series This case study outlines the rationale for the series and presents its organising framework. The central argument is that to create adaptive ...

Applying adaptive management in the field

The importance of people and skills required to support the adaptive management of programs.

What difference does CLA make to development?

USAID

Does an intentional, systematic and resourced approach to collaborating, learning and adapting contribute to organisational effectiveness? To development outcomes? If so, how? And under what circumstances? How do we measure ...

Adaptive Management in Practice: A Market Systems Application in Bangladesh

This webinar discusses the practical adaptations in operational and technical approaches implemented in USAID's Agricultural Value Chain (AVC) activity in Bangladesh to support the application of market systems facilitation. Speakers ...

Adapting to complex markets

Do you want to learn about systems thinking and how to apply adaptive management? Then come join us on this online course that is a guided and grounded learning experience ...

Putting adaptive management into practice

Practitioners trying to create systems change in dynamic environments recognise the need to continually learn, experiment, and change their strategies to maximise impact.

New evidence! What difference does collaborating, learning, and adapting make to development?

Results of a literature review on the evidence base for collaborating, learning and adapting!

Gestión de proyectos DSM

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

New Spanish version - published June 2017 This internal guidance provides advice for SDC staff on how to manage projects using a market systems approach. Advice is provided on staff ...

Gestion de projets DSM

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

New French version - published June 2017 This internal guidance provides advice for SDC staff on how to manage projects using a market systems approach. Advice is provided on staff ...

BEAM webinar: Hiring managers for adaptive management - from recruitment to retainment

The development community continues to recognise the need for managing programmes adaptively, particularly when pursuing systemic change. Managing in this way involves experimentation amidst ambiguity, changing plans, and extensive knowledge ...