Do the Impacts of MSD Activities Sustain and Scale After Close? An Evidence Synthesis from Recent Ex-Post Evaluations

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI
  • Publication Type: Learning Brief
  • Date: October 4, 2024

This evidence synthesis captures findings from USAID’s ex-post studies in Ghana and Senegal, and bolsters the evidence base for market systems development.

Read More

Lasting Roots: ADVANCE II and the Outgrower Business Model in Ghana

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI
  • Publication Type: Report
  • Date: May 16, 2024

This report examines the scale and sustainability of changes resulting from ADVANCE II’s introduction of an Outgrower Business (OB) model in Ghana’s agricultural sector.

Read More

LSC Webinar: Gathering Tensions and Solutions for USAID in Systems Programming

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), Land O'Lakes Venture37
  • Publication Type: Webinar
  • Date: March 18, 2024

This Local Systems Community USAID webinar with Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships examines key tensions that happen during market systems development and systems change work, pulling experience and lessons learned from the Rwanda Orora Wihaze Activity.

Read More

ICTforAg Webinar: Learning from an Ex-Post Study & Investments in Agricultural Digitization in Senegal

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, ICTforAg
  • Publication Type: Webinar
  • Date: December 11, 2023

This webinar examines the durability of program investments in digitalization by small-scale rice farmers under Naatal Mbay’s introduction of an integrated finance model (IFM) in Senegal’s domestic rice sector, three and a half years after program closure.

Read More

Lasting Roots: Naatal Mbay and the Integrated Finance Model in Senegal

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI
  • Publication Type: Report
  • Date: August 23, 2023

This report examines the scale and sustainability of changes resulting from Naatal Mbay’s introduction of an integrated finance model (IFM) in Senegal’s domestic rice sector, three and a half years after program closure.

Read More

Brown Bag Presentation on Preliminary Lessons Learned of Two Ex-post Studies

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI
  • Publication Type: Presentation
  • Date: September 5, 2023

This presentation shares preliminary lessons learned on research methods for conducting ex-post evaluations, drawing from experiences from the Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity in Senegal and Ghana.

Read More

Naatal Mbay et le Financement Intégré au Sénégal: Evaluation Ex-Post: Note de Synthese

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI
  • Publication Type: Learning Brief (French)
  • Date: August 23, 2023

This brief in French summarizes the scale and sustainability of changes resulting from Naatal Mbay’s introduction of an integrated finance model (IFM) in Senegal’s domestic rice sector, three and a half years after program closure.

Read More

Learning Brief: Naatal Mbay and the Integrated Finance Model in Senegal

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI
  • Publication Type: Learning Brief
  • Date: August 23, 2023

This brief summarizes the scale and sustainability of changes resulting from Naatal Mbay’s introduction of an integrated finance model (IFM) in Senegal’s domestic rice sector, three and a half years after program closure.

Read More

USAID’s Private Sector Engagement Amidst Covid-19: A Landscape Study

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, TechnoServe
  • Publication Type: Report
  • Date: June 1, 2023

This report offers an in-depth assessment of 30 USAID-funded activities undertaken by implementing partners active during the pandemic in over 20 countries and across both agricultural and nonagricultural sectors.

Read More

Enhancing Partner and Systems-Level Learning: 8 Tips from MEL Managers

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI
  • Publication Type: Learning Brief
  • Date: May 31, 2023

Brief 3 in the MSD in MEL Clinic Series deepens insights from Shifting the Locus of Learning: Catalyzing Private Sector Learning to Drive Systemic Change report, sharing collective learning and experience from Senior MEL Managers and synthesizing eight tips for practically enhancing partner and system-level learning.

Read More