Scaling Impact: Cambodia MSME Ex-Post Assessment
- Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: 2016
- Team: Ben Fowler
- Recommended Citation: MarketShare Associates. 2016. Scaling Impact: Cambodia MSME Ex-Post Assessment. Washington, DC: USAID.
Over the course of the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) activity, MSA discovered that there had been very analysis of the durability of the results created by market systems development initiatives following their completion. Consequently, MSA conducted this ex-post assessment of the USAID/Cambodia Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) project’s work in the swine sector five years following its closure.
MSME promoted the use by the private sector of an embedded training model, in which companies would provide technical information on input selection and application at no direct charge to swine farmers in order to increase input sales. MSA’s research found that the embedded training model has endured and indeed expanded since the end of the project, being used to varying extents by the majority of the firms in the sector, indicating that it has become an industry norm.
