The Impact of COVID-19 on the Talent Pipeline of Market Systems Development (MSD) Activities
The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the workforce participation and career ambition of women and other underrepresented groups is well documented across many sectors, but there is limited evidence from the international development sector. This research explores the impact of COVID-19 on the talent pipeline of MSD programs.
Industry Perspectives on the Impact of Restrictive Criteria for Senior Leader Job Descriptions
The brief explores the perspectives of experienced recruiters and program managers who work with medium and large contractors and international NGOs on the unintended impact of key personnel criteria with respect to the diversity of candidates they put forward for senior leadership positions.
Workplace Role Models: The Impact of Role Models in Advancing the Professional Ambitions of Women in the DRC
This participatory research with young women in three sectors – renewable energy, finance, and agriculture – aims to understand the impact that workplace role models, women and men, have on the personal perception of career potential of young Congolese women.
Direct Sales Agent Models: Adapting the Agent Model to be More Inclusive and Effective for the Agricultural Sector
This brief identifies practical design considerations for inclusive agricultural direct sales agent (DSA) models by drawing on research from models from Indonesia and Ghana, and from the foundational 2010 SHOPS study on the health sector.
Women Direct Sales Agents: Insights and Recommendations from the PRISMA Program in Indonesia
The Canopy Lab partnered with PRISMA to understand why Indonesian women’s roles in agriculture are frequently overlooked by agricultural input companies, government extension workers, and even development programs.
Gender and Leadership in MSD: Study of Inclusivity in USAID Job Descriptions
This study explores the extent of ‘inclusiveness’ of Chief of Party (COP) job descriptions in USAID tendering documents on market systems development (MSD) programs.
Opportunities and Imperatives Arising from COVID-19: Guidance on More Inclusive Digital Adoption
This brief is designed to equip private sector (PSD) and market systems development (MSD) practitioners with practical and actionable guidance to optimize outreach and engagement and minimize unintentional exclusion in the development sector’s move to the use of more digital technology.
Disability Inclusion in Market Systems Development
The concept of disability inclusion is still new to most market systems development (MSD) programs and practitioners. This series of three papers, commissioned by Elan in the DRC, aims to increase the understanding and applicability of disability inclusion in MSD and to disseminate practical tools, frameworks and guidance.
Where Have All The Female Team Leaders Gone?
This report features insights from an industry survey into gendered differences in the recruitment and retention of Team Leaders (TL) and Chief of Party (CoPs) in market systems (MSD) and private sector development (PSD) programs.
Confronting Organizational Challenges to Mainstreaming Women’s Economic Empowerment in Market Systems Development Programs
This case study adds new insights into existing guidance on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in market systems development (MSD) programming and provides lessons learned from the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Rural Economic Development (AIP-Rural) experience.
