Affecting Equitable Systems Change as a Woman-Owned Business
- Partner: Small Business Association for International Companies
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: August 27, 2024
This SBAIC blog shares MSA’s perspective as a woman-owned business and highlights strategies for thinking beyond conventional development practices.
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Profit with Purpose: How Women-Inclusive Business Practices Drive SME Success
- Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: July 18, 2024
This blog from Business Fights Poverty examines how inclusive investments advance growth for SMEs and explores insights from the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment case study series.
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Leveraging Opportunities for Systemic Change: Insights from a Market Systems and Performance Baseline of the Rwandan Food System
- Partner: USAID Feed the Future, Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA)
- Publication Type: Learning Brief
- Date: June 5, 2024
The Hinga Wunguke Baseline Study summary brief presents baseline learnings from Rwanda to inform stakeholders and activities striving towards more inclusive and equitable agricultural market systems.
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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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Closing the Gap: A Synthesis Report on the Cases for the ROI of Women’s Inclusion
- Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
- Publication Type: Case Study
- Date: April 24, 2024
This synthesis report in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series showcases promising models of women-inclusive investments and summarizes case study findings to support further understanding and implementation.
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Learning Note: Navigating Firm Selection for Women-Inclusive ROI
- Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
- Publication Type: Case Study
- Date: March 25, 2024
This learning note in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series provides key insights MSP gained from the process of vetting and selecting companies for WI-ROI.
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Workplace Innovation: Okeba’s Return on Investment in Childcare
- Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
- Publication Type: Case Study
- Date: March 25, 2024
This second case study in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series examines how Okeba, a Ugandan agribusiness, provided care support to its staff and ultimately reduced costs.
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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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Strategic Inclusion: Grean World’s Financial Returns of Targeting Women in The Last Mile
- Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
- Publication Type: Case Study
- Date: January 17, 2024
This first case study in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series examines the impact of Grean World’s successful shift from a centralized sales model to one that prioritized female village-based sales agents.
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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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