Testing tools for assessing systemic change: Network Analysis

  • Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Publication Type: Report
  • Date: 2016

This paper summarizes MSA’s test of the Network Analysis approach as a tool to measure systemic change. In late 2015, a researcher from MarketShare Associates with the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) activity conducted a network analysis of traders within the vegetable market system in Sierra Leone, to evaluate network analysis as a technique for describing market system dynamics, evaluating systemic change over time, and identifying potential leverage points for intervention by market systems programs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Preparing for an Ex-Post

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

This brief provides quick preparation tricks and tips for Activities that want to be ‘ex-post ready’.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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