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Do Successful Housing MicroFinance Portfolios Spur Similar Loan Products?
LESSONS FROM THE REPUBLIC of Georgia In the piece below, Monica Raskin from Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in...
Monica Rashkin
Aug 4, 20204 min read
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Beyond The 'Whack-a-Mole' Approach to a Crisis: The Road Towards Digital Economy
In the post below, the authors lay out how COVID19 has also become a positive disruptive force in some circumstances. Specifically, the...
Zenebe B. Uraguchi, Lea Shllaku & Lisar Morina
Jul 22, 20206 min read
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Market Systems Resilience A Year Onwards: Key Takeaways From The MSS 2020 Online Panel
In the post below, ACDI-VOCA provides an excellent summary of the first month’s sessions on market system resilience. An important...
ACDI/VOCA
Jul 20, 20207 min read
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Market Systems Resilience and Nigeria's Maize Market Amid COVID-19
In this piece, Emmet covers an interesting applied case of market systems resilience in Nigeria. The post highlights the importance of...
Emmet Murphy
Jul 1, 20204 min read
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Towards Supporting SME Financing in Rwanda
Feed the Future Nguriza Nshore is applying systemic lenses and tactics to shift the orientation of the financial services market system...
Nguriza Nshore team
Jun 25, 20203 min read
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Developing The Financial Services System Change Wheel
The financial systems change wheel was developed to help the Feed the Future Nguriza Nshore staff track a more comprehensive set of...
Nguriza Nshore team
Jun 23, 20202 min read
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COVID-19 and a Rapid Analysis of Honduran Enterprises' Capacities to Cope
The blog focuses on some of the more near-term adaptations that firms have done/are doing to better weather the challenges resulting from...
ACDI/VOCA Transforming Market Systems Activity in Honduras
Jun 19, 20205 min read
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5 Market Systems Strategies to Revive Food & Agricultural Systems During COVID-19
In this blog Hayden and Mark provide some very useful guidance for projects as they support market systems in their response to covid-19....
Hayden Aaronson and Mark Sevier
Jun 18, 20204 min read
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Lead With Data: A Practical Tool to Design and Implement Market Systems Programming
Photo Credit: Sterling Riber, OSC The blog highlights some important shifts that are foundational when applying a systems thinking...
Elizabeth Fustos and Amy Ostrander
May 31, 20206 min read
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3 Models That Ensure Private Sector Engagement
In the following post on private sector engagement, the authors provide three examples of working with private sector actors. In the...
Melissa Scudo Gasmi, Eileen Hoffman & Tracy Shanks
Mar 24, 20208 min read
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Progress Towards a Resilience Lens for Market Systems (Part 1)
In this blog, Kristin provides an excellent overview of the emerging importance of applying resilience lenses in market systems...
Kristin O'Planick
Feb 17, 20203 min read
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Market Systems Resilience - A Concept to Reframe Systemic Change and Sustainability?
Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash For most practitioners, the hardest part about applying systems thinking is shifting how they frame...
Marcus Jenal
Jan 20, 20204 min read
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Gender & Market Systems Development: Why We Struggle & What Can Be Done to Tackle Common Challenges
Photo by Ravi N Jha on Unsplash In this post Giulia highlights the challenge of gender inequality in market systems approaches. As Giulia...
Giulia Salmaso
Dec 5, 20197 min read
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Evidence of the Effectiveness of the MSD Approach Is Not Strong Enough - What Can We Do About This?
Note that the views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of his...
Jonathan Mitchell
Sep 10, 20196 min read
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Competitive, Inclusive and Resilient Market Systems – Heading Towards a Definition
In a previous blog on this site, “Diversity and Inclusion in Market Systems Programming,” contributed by Anoushka Boodhna and Devi...
Michael Field
Aug 26, 20194 min read
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What Can We Learn From Quantifying Market Systems?
In this blog, Dun highlights some important learning from his project’s efforts to apply more rigorous monitoring methods when tracking...
Dun Grover
Aug 12, 20194 min read
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Diversity and Inclusion in Market Systems Programming
In this post, Devi and Anoushka start an important evidence-based discussion about why diversity and inclusion are central to addressing...
Co-Authored by Anoushka Boodhna & Devi Ramkissoon
Aug 5, 20194 min read
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Time To Catch Up To a New Economic Awareness in the Development Industry
In this provocative blog, Lorenz highlights what many systems thinking development practitioners have been struggling with for years,...
Lorenz Wild
Jul 31, 20194 min read
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To The MSS Class of 2019...
In this blog Peter Saling discusses concerns in how international develop often takes an, “I know better” approach when designing and...
Peter Saling
Jun 14, 20193 min read
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Facilitation Through Market Systems Development Approach
In the following blog, Sadruzzaman Noor provides and interesting perspective of a practitioner at the forefront of learning and applying...
Sadruzzaman 'Tamam' Noor
Jun 13, 20199 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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