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Mesopartner Summer Academy 2021 on systemic economic development

The annual Summer Academy of Mesopartner targets professionals who have already collected some experience in designing, implementing and facilitating economic development processes and building team capacity. The Mesopartner Summer Academy ...

DCED Standard for Results Measurement training

DevLearn’s online training course shows you how to measure and use results using the DCED Standard for Results Measurement, a practical framework used by over a hundred programmes worldwide. Online ...

Can results last a decade? Understanding sustainability for post-covid19 responses

Understanding if and how a systems project can bring about sustainable change.

A pragmatic approach to assessing system change

Date: 30 April, 2020 09:00 BST (08:00 GMT) Speakers: Aly Miehlbradt, Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd Hans Posthumus, Hans Posthumus Consultancy Rachel Shah, The Springfield Centre Adam Kessler, DCED *If you signed ...

Research methods for systemic change programmes

Agora Global

A guide presenting a toolkit of methods useful for systemic change programmes. Those involved in systemic change programmes - funders, practitioners and evaluators - come from a wide range of ...

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 ...

MSD and job creation: can we measure what counts?

The need to ‘prove results’ in job creation easily creates incentives for unsustainable quick fixes that do not shift the conditions holding problems in place.

The schism in systemic change measurement

There are two schools of thought in the MSD community as to how to go about assessing systemic change. These are rooted in two different ways of seeing systems.

The Art of the Pivot…in the context of results-based management

Responding to moral dilemmas arising from interventions in MSD programmes

The antidote to systemic change frameworks

3sd.Research

While there are number of frameworks available that attempt to define systemic change, they are of limited value to those who have to go about assessing change. Whatever you think ...

How can we fix the biggest sustainability problem facing development?

Measuring how long a programme's impact lasts is crucial to understanding its sustainability.

Why can’t we measure systemic change?

Why do we lack a precise definition for 'systemic change' despite over a decade of implementing market systems programmes with the explicit goal of systemic change?

What is systemic change?

3sd Research

Why do we lack a precise definition for 'systemic change' despite over a decade of implementing market systems programmes with the explicit goal of systemic change? This paper uses Mechanisms ...

Online training on results measurement using the DCED Standard

Development programmes working in complex environments need to understand the context they work in, monitor changes, and adapt their work accordingly. This sounds simple but is challenging in practice. DevLearn’s ...

The benefit of hindsight: how market systems theory could have predicted Aflasafe uptake in Nigeria

Incentivising Nigerian smallholder farmers to use a bio control to protect their maize.

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 ...

Navigating the evidence on savings-focused financial inclusion

As part of the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab, Itad and The SEEP Network developed a searchable, interactive evidence map that provides consolidated access to relevant evidence related to savings-focused ...

Prove and improve: adapting M&E to better support business growth and project learning in MSD

Monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL) is not meant to focus just on project performance. Thus, the USAID's Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity has developed new MEL tools to ...

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 ...