Join us for a free global conversation series on Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) in Market Systems Development (MSD). This virtual series is designed to bring together
Care economy is an integral part of Business Environment Reforms (BER). It is central to advance Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). This report highlights the link between women’s share of care work and their access to economic opportunities, and analyses how care policies can be promoted as part of business environment reforms.
This brief highlights three evidenced based strategies for emerging leaders in international development interested in pursuing international leadership roles. It summarizes our recent study on
There is a dominant narrative that portrays women as victims of climate change. This series of briefs provides examples that challenges this view,
portraying women as active agents of change, in the hope of inspiring donors to advance women‘s economic empowerment to address climate
change.
Despite significant investment, there’s a perceived shortage of qualified senior leaders in MSD. This study, with Mercy Corps’ support, explores barriers and enablers in transitioning MSD professionals to international senior roles.
“In search of more equitable impact” is a blog series from the Canopy Lab’s Managing Partner and Inclusion+ Practice Lead, Holly Lard Krueger. The series is inspired by our work on the topic of inclusion and leadership and explores how a range of market systems development (MSD) programs and practitioners are trying to achieve more equitable impact,
This blog explores the ‘influence challenge’ many of us wrestle with through the lens of what we found trying to trace uptake by stakeholders of findings from a series of research initiatives conducted last year on the impact of COVID-19 on inclusion in the international development workforce.
The Canopy Lab synthesized the evidence and extracted learnings from World Vision Australia’s global portfolio of economic empowerment programs across three core pillars: inclusive Market Systems Development (iMSD), Financial Inclusion (FI), and Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE).
The Canopy Lab partnered with GenderSmart & 2X Collaborative Care Economy Working Group to produce two briefs to amplify the importance of investing in the care economy. These documents are geared toward investors, investment influencers and related actors who are interested in starting or deepening their engagement with the care economy through more gender-smart capital allocation.
Between October 2021 and May 2022, Canopy’s Managing Partner Holly Lard Krueger authored a series of bi-monthly blogs for Marketlinks. This series, called The Market Corner, explored the application of systems thinking in international development.
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I am committed to improving human livelihoods and resilience in balance with nature. At the Canopy Lab, I provide research and advisory support to projects working on biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, nature-based solutions, sustainable tourism, and market systems development. Outside work, I’m a keen guitarist, cyclist and bookworm, with a love for food, travelling and learning languages.