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Private Sector Engagement (PSE) and Market Systems Development (MSD): Improving Each Other
The blog provides a nice overview of USAID’s thinking on PSE and MSD. An interesting element of the discussion of PSE and MSD is the role...
Katie Garcia and Kristin O’Planick, USAID
May 31, 20224 min read
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Making Market Systems Work for an Urbanizing World
The blog highlights the importance of urban spaces from the perspective of current and future inclusive growth. The blog points out the...
Nicole Goldin, PhD
May 25, 20224 min read
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Market Systems to Enable Sustainability of Informal Housing in Lima, Peru
The blog provides an interesting example of a project focusing on an important but often ignored population, the urban poor. While most...
Swisscontact
May 24, 20223 min read
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Navigating Systemic Resilience Trade-Offs in Conflict Settings: Examples from Ituri, DRC
The blog provides an important example of applying a systems approach in a conflict-affected context. While engaging local actors from...
Dan Langfitt, DAI
May 17, 20225 min read
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Women’s Economic Empowerment on the Airwaves
Working with Media to Influence Gender Norms in Mozambique In a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique, small-business owner Isabel Matola faced a...
Sarah Bove, Acting Program Director, Women In Business (WIN)
May 16, 20224 min read
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Hybrid Market Systems Development to Reinforce System Resilience and Climate Preparedness
Results and Lessons Learned from Promoting Sustainable Potato Cultivation in Uganda In Uganda, smallholder potato farmers benefitted from...
David Hirst, Country Representative, International Fertilizer Development Center, Uganda
May 16, 20225 min read
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Embracing Change to Facilitate Inclusive Market Systems
The blog highlights a case demonstrating a specific model for connecting smallholder producers with a larger market actor. It raises some...
Emmet Murphy, Vivekan Jeyagaran & Matthew Karugarama
May 16, 20225 min read
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Why Climate Change Interventions Often Fail to Meet their Sustainability Goals
How we work to mitigate individual project design failures by taking a beneficiary’s perspective and going beyond market access The blog...
Ella Lundström, NIRAS
May 16, 20225 min read
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The Importance of Food Safety for Sustaining Inclusive, Nutritious Food and Market Systems
Effective MSD is all about catalyzing the market system and its actors to value behaviors that both serve their business interests and...
Michael Brown and Serena Stepanovic, World Vision United States
May 15, 20225 min read
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What is Important for Building Market Systems Resilience?
A deep dive into the small business sector in Lebanon The blog highlights important research that Mercy Corp is conducting in various...
Benjamin Medam and Daniel Hudner, Mercy Corps
May 12, 20226 min read
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Pushing for Structural Changes Over Short-Term Changes in Behavior in Market Systems
The blog does a great job of highlighting the challenges of actually taking a systems-thinking approach. Often projects, practitioners,...
Luca Crudeli and Dun Grover, ACDI/VOCA
May 12, 202210 min read
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Three Lessons to Accelerate Inclusion and Women’s Economic Empowerment Outcomes in MSD Programs
Increasingly, it is understood that for a market system to be healthy, it needs to be inclusive and integrate as many varied parts of...
Ellie Wong and Tamam Noor, World Vision Australia
May 6, 20227 min read
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Skills in Market Systems Development: Not Just Another Supporting Function
This blog raises important points about human resources, including the central role of capacity building services in market systems, and...
Mike Klassen, Springfield Centre & Sonja Hofstetter, Swisscontact
May 6, 20226 min read
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Next Level Learning for Market Systems via Links Wins
The blog provides a great overview of how learning and knowledge sharing evolve in market systems development. Perhaps the most crucial...
Thom Sinclair
May 6, 20225 min read
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A New Tool to Help Farmers Meet Growing Demands for Food Safety in Developing Countries
In this blog, the author highlights the difficulties and importance of any supply chain to adapt to their end market's needs and changing...
Catharine Phiri
May 2, 20223 min read
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What Does Successful Co-Creation Look Like in Honduras?
Using co-creation and engaging citizens, businesses, and government entities in a market systems approach is essential to designing...
Dexis
May 2, 20223 min read
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Food System Integration: Critical Opportunities to Boost Sustainable Market Systems Development
Food systems lenses are emerging as an increasingly important element to integrate into MSD program strategies and tactics. However, as...
Kathryn Merckel
May 2, 20225 min read
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Levelling the Playing Field – Developing Market Systems that Support Regenerative Agriculture
In this blog, the authors raise a critical issue of the inability to properly cost out risks, which is manifesting into the real harm of...
John Chettleborough & Chris Henderson
Apr 29, 20227 min read
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Evolving Our Understanding of Inclusivity
Photo by Jake Lyell This blog was originally posted on MarketLinks. You can view the original post here. As systems thinking and lenses...
Michael Field
Mar 15, 20224 min read
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Easyhatch - The Emerging Importance of Investment Transaction Advisors
In the following blog, the authors follow the case of easyHATCH, a poultry processing firm in Rwanda. Central to the success of easyHATCH...
Feed the Future Nguriza Nshore Team
Jan 17, 20224 min read
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The MSDHub Blog Series is authored by respected implementers and donors of market systems projects globally.
MSD Hub’s main editor, Senior Systems Specialist, Michael Field, from the Vikāra Institute, provides introductory commentary on each blog post.
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