Adaptive Management For Market Systems - ​Drawing On Practical Experience

The Market Systems Symposium, in partnership with RTI International, hosted a facilitated discussion on adaptive management for market systems. The discussion focused on a growing body of tools and tactics that practitioners are employing to manage what can be a tricky landscape of donor needs, organizational expectations, as well as emerging best practices of systems thinking approaches that demand effective adaptation. Participants heard about a number of ways in which projects and donors have succeeded in fostering improved adaptive capacity, which seeded further discussion at the 2019 Symposium and lead to a robust set of recommendations and tools available to the industry. The session covered the following topics:

•    Adapting indicators and targets

•    Adapting procurements and partnerships

•    Adapting teams

The session was facilitated by Liz Eckert, RTI International, and Mike Field, EcoVentures International. They were joined by Ken Smarzik, of USAID/Haiti’s Leveraging Value Chain Enhancement (LEVE) project, amongst…