Unpaid Care Work in Market Systems Development: Measurement Practices for Women’s Economic Empowerment
- Partner: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Publication Type: Brief
- Date: 2016
This technical brief documents emerging thought leadership on measurement practices for unpaid care work. It presents a survey of current good practices, explores how practitioners can modify traditional tools and methodologies to complement the market systems approach, and identifies technical topics related to measuring unpaid care work that require further development.
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Social norms in market systems development: A practitioner-led research brief
- Partner: The BEAM Exchange, ACDI/VOCA, Habitat for Humanity International
- Publication Type: Brief
- Date: April 2017
Research brief capturing the experience of practitioners interested in integrating knowledge on social norms from fields outside of market systems into their work on identifying and measuring systemic change.
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Social Norms and Systems Change: Final Performance Report
- Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: December 2016
This research brief captures the experience of a group of practitioners interested in integrating knowledge on social norms from fields outside of market systems into their work on identifying and measuring systemic change. This research brief outlines key ideas from social norms theory and explores implications for research and implementation by market systems development (MSD) programmes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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