Publications | Page 9 of 14 | MarketShare Associates

Leveraging Economic Opportunities: Final Performance Report

Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Publication Type: Report
Date: December 2016

This report presents key activities, lessons learned, and accomplishments of the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project. Over the course of three years (October 1, 2013 – November 13, 2016), LEO served as USAID’s primary vehicle for learning in the area of market systems approaches and a convener of knowledge and best practices amongst its implementing partners.

What’s All the Fuss About? How USAID is Embracing Systems Thinking With Supporting Frameworks and Tools

Partner: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Webinar
Date: November 9, 2016

This webinar sheds light on how the market systems development community can better understand indications of systemic change. Experts share findings from a multi-year trial conducted by the USAID-funded Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) activity that applied ‘complexity-aware’ monitoring tools in Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Georgia and Mozambique to assess their utility for capturing systemic change.

Scaling Impact Through Agricultural Input and Output Markets: A Synthesis and Troubleshooting Guide

Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities
Publication Type: Report
Date: October 2016

Building on research conducted by the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) activity on scaling impact through agricultural input and output markets, this paper provides: 1) a summary of empirical learning drawn from LEO's work; and 2) practical recommendations and references to outside resources to help guide projects achieve impact through technology and behavior adoption via agricultural input and output markets.

Disrupting System Dynamics: A Framework for Understanding Systemic Changes

Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Publication Type: Report
Date: October 2016

This paper builds on a literature review on evaluating systems conducted under the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project, which found issues with the existing frameworks and indicators used for measuring systemic change. It presents a framework that outlines a pathway for systemic change, and presents a complementary set of indicator areas, or ‘domains’, that signal systemic changes.

Case Studies on Facilitating Systemic Change in Feed the Future: A Synthesis of Cases from Ghana, Senegal, Zambia and Rwanda

Partner: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Case Study
Date: October 2016

Feed the Future (FtF) is facilitating changes in core agricultural systems that contributes to more sustainable and scalable development objectives. This report summarizes the findings from research into four FtF projects, selected as illustrations of observable systemic change.

Using Outcome Harvesting to Assess Unintended Consequences of Market Systems Programs

Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO), BEAM Exchange, Alliances Lesser Caucuses Programme (ALCP)
Publication Type: Brief
Date: September 2016

This brief presents a summary of findings related to the application of the Outcome Harvesting tool in the Georgian dairy industry.

Testing Tools for Assessing Systemic Change: Synthesis Paper

Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Publication Type: Report
Date: September 2016

Building on the work of the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) activity on measuring indications of systemic change, this paper summarizes the results of a multi-year research effort to understand the potential of a set of tools – Standard Measurement Tools, Outcome Harvesting, SenseMaker, and Social Network Analysis – to measure systemic change and provides practical guidance for practitioners.

The Utility of Market Analyses: Key Findings from a Landscape Review

Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Publication Type: Report
Date: September 2016

This report provides a review of market analyses and in-depth interviews with key staff from projects seeking to apply a market systems development (MSD) approach. The purpose of this paper is to improve the practices of projects wanting to understand where and how to intervene to facilitate market systems development that creates inclusive benefits for target populations.

The Theory Behind the Approach: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Inclusive Market Systems Development

Partner: The SEEP Network and UN Women
Publication Type: Webinar
Date: August 4, 2016

This webinar examines the implications for women's economic empowerment in inclusive market development based on a paper released by USAID's Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project, presented by the report's authors. An expert commentator from the International Labour Organization (ILO) discussed potential implications, followed by an ample question and answer session.

Practical Tools for Measuring System Health

Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Publication Type: Report
Date: August 2016

This brief paper describes an effort to build a set of basic and easily used tools for monitoring system dynamics, or system health. The term, “system dynamics,” refers to the way actors, or agents, within a system act and relate to one another. It includes flows between agents as well as the norms that govern the way groups of agents in a system make seemingly independent decisions.

Recent Publications & Learning

Explore Publications & Learning

Improving Women Pastoralists’ Access to Animal Health Services: Recommendations in Ethiopia and Kenya

Is the ‘MSD hockey stick’ a fable or a fact? Early lessons from the USAID ex-post series

Do the Impacts of MSD Activities Sustain and Scale After Close? An Evidence Synthesis from Recent Ex-Post Evaluations

Filter Resources By: