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Mesopartner Summer Academy 2020 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 ...

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

Responding to moral dilemmas arising from interventions in MSD programmes

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 ...

How can I conduct more meaningful market systems analysis? – Check your ego!

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 perils of partial attribution

Center for Global Development (CGD)

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 ...

Explore systems thinking with OpenLearn

Open University

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 ...

New research: Achieving conceptual clarity on systemic change

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 ...

The system of evidence

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’s contribution to systemic change in the maize market

The Springfield Centre

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 ...

Katalyst's contribution to systemic change in the fish market

The Springfield Centre

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 ...

Designing for transformative change

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.

Unintended consequences of scale

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 ...