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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Can Social Safety Nets and Market Development Work Together?
Over the last few years there has a been an interesting evolution in my thinking that initially was grounded in questions about systemic...
Michael Field
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Should We Fix Wrong Behaviour?
Marcus Jenal’s blog highlights the importance of systems thinkers gathering and share their learning and experience. He also raises some...
Marcus Jenal
Jun 6, 20197 min read
Am I Really a “Market Systems” Thinker? It's Easier Said Than Done
Zenebe Uraguchi’s blog raises some critically important challenges facing systems thinkers that were central during the symposium. One of...
Zenebe B. Uraguchi
Jun 3, 20197 min read
Why Market System Practitioners Are Talking About Self-Organization
It's not every day that a group of development practitioners from around the world get together to discuss complex systems theory. In...
Elizabeth Eckert & Marcus Jenal
Jul 30, 20185 min read
Growth & Value Addition, Not Profit Motive, Are Key to Market Systems Becoming More Inclusive
When working on private sector development it is often cited without question that profit motives are good. The thinking goes that a...
Michael Field
Jul 23, 20184 min read
Market Systems Strengthening: Adaptive Management in Action
There are strong signals across the international development sector that intentional, systematic, and resourced efforts to improve...
Piers Bocock
Jul 18, 20182 min read
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AUTHORS
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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