Working with the Private Sector to Empower Women: How YOU Can Build a Business Case for Change
- Partner: Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF), DAI, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: July 18, 2019
This blog post builds on MarketShare Associates' (MSA) work as part of the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) to stimulate increased women’s economic empowerment through a market systems approach. The MSA team outlines a practical framework for development actors to develop a robust business case for private sector companies around both the commercial and social value of empowering women.
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Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova) Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plan
- Partner: Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: May 2019
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova) seeks to stimulate sustainable, agriculture-led economic growth, which is critical to reducing poverty and hunger. The aim is to contribute to this change by catalyzing more inclusive and competitive agricultural market systems. This Plan sets out FTF Inova’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) System and explains how results are monitored and measured to support strategic, informed, and adaptive management of interventions, while allowing FTF Inova to report on achieved results.
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Empowerment-Forward Poverty Mapping: Real-Time Learning from the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund’s Disadvantaged Assessment
- Partner: Arab Women's Enterprise Fund (AWEF)
- Publication Type: Brief
- Date: 2017
Funded by the U.K. Department for International Development, the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) blends market systems and empowerment-thinking to stimulate women’s economic empowerment across Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine. This learning brief captures the experience of the AWEF team in developing a gender-sensitive, empowerment-forward poverty mapping tool: the Disadvantaged Assessment.
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Women’s Economic Empowerment: Practical Tools for Gender-Responsive Poverty Measurement
- Partner: Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF), DAI, The SEEP Network, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
- Publication Type: Webinar
- Date: March 22, 2018
This webinar explored practical applications of poverty measurement tools that capture the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and intra-household dynamics. Speakers discussed tools such as the Poverty Probability Index (PPI), the Individual Deprivation Measure and the Disadvantage Assessment, and their abilities to capture gender-responsive results.
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Crafting Kuza: Towards a Systemic Approach to Job Creation for Youth in Mombasa
- Partner: International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Publication Type: Case Study
- Date: 2016
This case study examines the Kuza project, a 3.5 year initiative that operated in coastal Kenya, and distills lessons for initiatives seeking to facilitate inclusive job creation, as well as methods for understanding impact. MSA conducted an analysis of Kuza’s job creation and job measurement strategies with a specific focus on the micro-retail sector. The study profiles Kuza’s approach to capturing direct, indirect and induced job creation.
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Businesses create impact: adaptive management, feedback loops and the role of businesses in results measurement
- Partner: Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED), The BEAM Exchange
- Publication Type: Presentation
- Date: February 21, 2018
Presentation at the 2018 DCED-BEAM Seminar in Nairobi, Kenya on the role of feedback in driving adaptation and improvement
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Mitigating Confirmation Bias
- Partner: USAID LEARN Program
- Publication Type: Learning Brief
- Date: 2017
It’s easy to notice and look for information that supports our pre-existing beliefs and ignore that which doesn’t—i.e., confirmation bias. This is a guide to mitigate confirmation bias in research and how to structure studies, so they acknowledge and counter existing biases.
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Market Systems and Job Quality: What Do We Know and What Can We Do About It?
- Partner: International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: August 2017
If you’ve ever wondered (or been skeptical about) if or how the market systems approach can address job quality, we’ve mapped the evidence from the field to learn what’s been done, what’s been effective and what projects and donors can to better address job quality in the future.
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Marketlinks Value Chain Development Wiki: Vulnerable Populations and the Value Chain Approach
- Partner: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Publication Type: Wiki
- Date: 2017
This wiki codifies good practice in applying the value chain approach to vulnerable populations. Vulnerable populations are defined as those groups of people who are typically excluded, disadvantaged or marginalized based on their economic, environmental, social, or cultural characteristics. This wiki focuses on three groups commonly targeted by development programs: very poor populations; disadvantaged women; and at-risk youth.
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Marketlinks Value Chain Development Wiki: Integrating Food Security and the Value Chain Approach
- Partner: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Publication Type: Wiki
- Date: 2017
This wiki codifies good practice in value chain development and integrating food security. This wiki provides a synthesis of currently available information about the linkages between food security and value chain initiatives, with the intent of providing guidance to those seeking to integrate food security considerations with the value chain approach.
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