Measuring the intangible: lessons from USAID partners on how to measure the impact of organizational learning and adaptive management
- Partner: USAID, Dexis Consulting Group
- Publication Type: Journal Article
- Date: September 11, 2020
This paper explores lessons learned from a USAID-funded learning network of implementing partners, known as CLAIM, which developed innovative methods to measure the seemingly intangible contributions of collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) to organizational effectiveness and development outcomes.
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Rethinking the Future of Women’s Empowerment: Economic Engagement & COVID-19
- Partner: FHI 360
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: October 20, 2020
We kick off the first of a two-part blog series – co-produced by FHI 360 and MarketShare Associates – on Rethinking the Future of Women’s Empowerment in response to the global pandemic with exploring COVID-19’s impact on women’s economic engagement in Egypt.
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Gendered Social Norms in Financial Inclusion: A Diagnostic Study from Southeastern Turkey
- Partner: CGAP, MetLife Foundation
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: July 2020
The influence of gendered social norms has not been systematically analyzed or widely incorporated into financial inclusion programming. This diagnostic aims to identify social norms that affect how women access, use, and benefit from financial services. The goal is to guide practitioners toward a better understanding of the underlying dynamics. By identifying actionable insights, practitioners can design interventions that target the root causes of consumer behaviors that limit the potential benefits of financial inclusion interventions for women.
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Resources for a Gendered Approach to Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning During COVID-19
- Partner: USAID
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: May 21, 2020
Tools and resources for a gendered approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) during the COVID-19 pandemic compiled by the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) program team.
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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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How to better serve smallholders: Key learning from INNOVATE’s 3-year initiative on non-traditional finance for agriculture
- Partner: Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: May 12, 2020
This blog, co-written by MEDA and MarketShare Associates, summarizes key learnings from INNOVATE’s three-year initiative assessing the potential of non-traditional finance to enable adoption of smallholder agricultural innovations in South Asia, South America and East Africa. The blog shares insights on customer centricity, smallholder products and services, smallholder household decision-making, and policy and regulatory transformation. The authors also provide recommendations for implementers, policy makers, donors, and the private sector to re-think how programs and policies are implemented, and how products and serviced are designed and delivered.
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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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NTF4Ag: Emerging Lessons and New Frontiers – INNOVATE Final Synthesis Report
- Partner: Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: April 2020
The INNOVATE Final Synthesis Report, produced with support from MarketShare Associates, brings together key results, insights and lessons from the research conducted by MEDA INNOVATE and its partners from 2017-2020, with the goal of learning and documenting experiences of non-traditional finance for catalyzing smallholder agricultural innovation adoption.
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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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