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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 ...

BEAM Webinar - Aquaculture goes to market: jobs for youth in Warri City, Nigeria

BEAM Grab the Mic webinar Thursday 19 July, 1300 (UK time) / 12 noon (UTC) Speakers: James Elekwachi and Faith Soya, PIND Foundation **Last minute participants If you haven't registered ...

Scalability review of 3i Investing in Infrastructure programme

DFAT

Investing in Infrastructure (3i) is a DFAT-funded programme which seeks to stimulate and accelerate private investment in essential small-scale infrastructure in Cambodia.

Scaling-up and scalability: concepts, frameworks and assessment

Vuna

Vuna is a DFID-funded regional Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) programme. CSA focuses on sustainably improving agricultural production and increasing income; improving agricultural resilience to climate change; and mitigating greenhouse gas ...

The challenge of scale: refining general practices

Maxwell Stamp's research, funded by BEAM, is yielding fascinating insights into how market systems programmes are achieving impact at scale. Discover what the main challenges initially identified are, and how ...

New research: Improved scaling up of market systems interventions

What can we learn from applying commercial investment analytical techniques to the market systems approach?

Reconsidering the concept of scale in market systems development

USAID

Economic development programmes are increasingly taking a systems approach. This paper suggests that the shift to a systemic perspective calls into question the utility of using scale as a key ...

Getting to scale: Lessons in reaching scale in private sector development programmes

Adam Smith International (ASI)

This paper looks at the experience of getting to scale in Private Sector Development (PSD) programmes. In particular, it looks at the successes and failures of programmes in scaling pro-poor ...

Making it big: steps for scaling up

Development practitioners are learning that there is more than commercial viability to an investable and scalable business proposition.

On (market) systems development: 'It's all about sustainability and scale, stupid!'

Matthias Herr and Zenebe Uraguchi aim to demystify the misconceptions on market systems development.

Quality vegetable seed in mini-packs

Kayalyst

Agri-business for Trade Competitiveness Project (ATC-P) - branded as 'Katalyst' - is a market development project focusing on increasing the incomes of poor men and women in rural areas of ...

Beyond the Pioneer

Monitor Deloitte

A focus on the challenge of scaling, which asks: why aren't more market-based solution models scaling? What barriers do they face? Where market-based solutions have achieved scale, how has this ...