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 collaboration with the BEAM Exchange, Senior Consultant Clara Garcia Parra developed a guide to help donors and practitioners design and implement impactful agricultural programmes that use the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach, and want to be intentional about achieving environmental goals.
Projects that follow the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach often have inception phases that include establishing initial partnerships to refine engagement strategies. For RECONOMY, however, this phase entailed much more. This case study explores the knowledge and experience gained during the project’s 2+ year inception.
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).
This three-part series on MSD fundamentals presents key components and tactics (#1), MSD litmus test questions (#2), and common myths surrounding the approach (#3).
Cette note synthétise les composantes et les tactiques propres à l’approche de développement des systèmes de marché. La note fait partie d’une série en trois parties sur les fondamentaux du MSD.
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.
This outcome harvest (OH) detected, analyzed, and substantiated 12 systemic outcomes related to the work of the USAID-funded Rice and Diversified Crops (RDC) Activity.
This case study forms part of a series of analyses of RisiAlbania’s market systems interventions in Albania’s ICT, tourism and agricultural sectors. It focuses on Risi’s efforts to take advantage of emerging changes in the market for information security services.
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.
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.