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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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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.

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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.

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Building a Team Culture for Adaptive Management in MSD: 5 Strategies MEL Managers Say Work

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

Brief 2 in the MSD in MEL Clinic Series draws from the experiences of four Senior MEL Managers to summarize five practical strategies to build a culture among teams that enables the use of an MSD approach.

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Practitioners’ Guidance to Assessing Systems Change

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

Brief 1 in the MSD in MEL Clinic Series is a guide that draws from the practical experience of MEL Managers working on market systems development (MSD) programs around the world to help other MEL Managers find what works best for their program and teams in assessing systems change.

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Gendered Social Norms Diagnostic and their Impact on Women’s Financial Inclusion in Rwanda

  • Partner: Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR)
  • Publication Type: Report
  • Date: March 3, 2023

This study provides country-level insights into social norms that impact women entrepreneurs’ access to, use of, and benefits from financial services in Rwanda.

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