Pathways to Systemic Change in Kenya’s Livestock Sector

  • Partner: Kenya Markets Trust, Gatsby Africa, UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: May 2020

This case study examines Kenya Markets Trust's impactful interventions in the Kenyan livestock sector, emphasizing market-driven solutions and collaborative efforts with various stakeholders to enhance productivity, income generation, and overall livelihoods for smallholder farmers.

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Making Digital Finance Work for Women in the MENA Region: 8 Lessons from the Field

  • Partner: Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF), DAI, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
  • Publication Type: Blog Post
  • Date: April 13, 2020

This blog builds on MarketShare Associates' work supporting the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) to stimulate increased women’s economic empowerment through a market systems approach in Jordan and Egypt. Drawing from AWEF’s Practitioner Learning Brief, Making Digital Finance Work for Women in the MENA Region (2020), the authors explore opportunities and challenges of Digital Financial Services (DFS) and highlight eight lessons on how to design and implement interventions that can pave the way for women’s digital financial empowerment across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and more widely.

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Making Digital Finance Work for Women in the MENA Region: 8 Lessons from the Field

  • Partner: Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF), DAI, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
  • Publication Type: Report
  • Date: April 2020

This Practitioner Learning Brief builds on MarketShare Associates' work supporting the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) to stimulate increased women’s economic empowerment through a market systems approach. The Brief explores opportunities and challenges of Digital Financial Services (DFS) and highlights eight lessons from 14 case studies on how to design and implement interventions that can pave the way for women’s digital financial empowerment across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and more widely. This Brief aims to encourage others to test and scale innovative approaches to making digital finance work better for women’s empowerment.

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Discovering A Route to Formalize Women-Owned Businesses in Jordan

  • Partner: Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF), DAI, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
  • Publication Type: Blog Post
  • Date: March 10, 2020

This blog builds on MarketShare Associates' work in Jordan supporting the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) to stimulate increased women’s economic empowerment through a market systems approach. The authors share key results from AWEF's work with local municipalities to facilitate home-based vocational licensing. To date, AWEF’s approach has led to adoption of the home-based licensing process across 20 municipalities within Jordan, with over 300 women obtaining vocational licenses. As part of the licensing process women are trained to adjust production to meet market and supplier requirements, enabling many of them to grow and formalize their businesses. Several women who were licensed have been connected to large, national buyers.

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Using data to promote women’s empowerment in MSD programmes: the experience of AWEF

  • Partner: Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF), DAI, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
  • Publication Type: Blog Post
  • Date: February 11, 2020

The MarketShare Associates team shares lessons learned as part of the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) for effectively collecting and using data to stimulate increased women’s economic empowerment through a market systems approach. Funded by the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), AWEF has been one of DFID’s flagship women’s economic empowerment programmes working in Jordan, Egypt and until March 2018, the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This blog focuses on using data for programme design, to stimulate crowding-in, to learn and pivot strategies, and to understand systemic change.

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Women in the workplace: how better data can lead to systemic change

  • Partner: Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED), BEAM Exchange
  • Publication Type: Webinar
  • Date: January 28, 2020

Limited data on the number of women workers, the roles they play, and the barriers and opportunities they face can mean that companies, and even entire sectors, exclude or underutilise women’s talents. This webinar drew on MarketShare Associates' work supporting the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) to stimulate increased women’s economic empowerment through a market systems approach. Speakers presented diverse approaches to collecting and using data to enhance understanding of the risks and opportunities for women within a company’s business operations and supply chains.

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The Journey of Changing Water Services Delivery in Kenya

  • Partner: Kenya Markets Trust, Gatsby Africa, UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: December 2019

Understanding and assessing progress towards systemic change is key for programs seeking to improve the impact they have. This case study is focused on Kenya’s water sector, and specifically the service delivery sub-sector. The published case study summarizes key lessons and insights from KMT’s activities, whilst also offering key considerations for the continued progress towards creating systemic change.

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Transforming Kenya’s Agricultural Inputs Sector

  • Partner: Kenya Markets Trust, Gatsby Africa, UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: August 2019

This case study examines how Kenya Markets Trust’s agri-input initiatives improved smallholder farmers' access to quality inputs, enhanced market systems, and fostered collaboration across the value chain.

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7 Lessons in Shifting Social Norms for Women’s Economic Empowerment

  • Partner: The SEEP Network Women’s Economic Empowerment Working Group
  • Publication Type: Blog
  • Date: July 23, 2019

MarketShare Associates moderated a side event on “Shifting Social Norms for Women's Economic Empowerment” hosted by the SEEP Network at the 2019 Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, Canada. This blog post summarizes seven lessons learned in shifting social norms for women’s economic empowerment. The session explored how members of SEEP’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Working Group have tackled gender norms in the context of their work in developing countries. Speakers from Oxfam, IPSOS, Women for Women International, ICRW, World Vision International, and MEDA drew on practical examples and strategies for understanding, measuring and changing social norms.

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Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova) Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plan

  • Partner: Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Publication Type: Report
  • Date: May 2019

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova) seeks to stimulate sustainable, agriculture-led economic growth, which is critical to reducing poverty and hunger. The aim is to contribute to this change by catalyzing more inclusive and competitive agricultural market systems. This Plan sets out FTF Inova’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) System and explains how results are monitored and measured to support strategic, informed, and adaptive management of interventions, while allowing FTF Inova to report on achieved results.

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