Measuring how long a programme's impact lasts is crucial to understanding its sustainability.
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?
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 ...
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 ...
Incentivising Nigerian smallholder farmers to use a bio control to protect their maize.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Although a valuable tool for analysing market systems, network analysis is challenging to implement and has yet to be deployed extensively by international development practitioners.
The debate about whether it is more important to have good individual statistics or be a team player that contributes to overall victory is hugely important in development today. Lant ...
The UK's Open University provides a range of free online courses that explore systems as a subject in its own right, and subjects which can be understood through the application ...
What is systemic change? How do we achieve it, and how do we measure it? Drawing from both theory and practice, new BEAM research seeks to improve our understanding of ...
I'm not clear where the comparison of an approach with abundant high quality evidence is, but nevertheless, the oft cited mantra in the echo chambers we inhabit is it’s not ...
Katalyst is a market development programme that aims to increase the productivity and incomes of small farmers and micro and small enterprises by facilitating access to information, skills, services and ...
A theory of change is fundamental to project design; it posits the changes that need to happen for a project to address problems and achieve a given purpose.
From my perspective as a practitioner trying to apply market systems thinking, there are important challenges in the way scale has been interpreted and in how that interpretation is applied ...
Outcome Harvesting is a utilisation-focused evaluation tool that scans the environment for the intended or unintended consequences of an intervention. In 2016, MarketShare Associates, through the LEO and BEAM Exchange ...
he more we learn about market systems and systemic change, the more we realise that describing these system dynamics is a major challenge. In addition, many tools for describing and ...