Women’s Entrepreneurship Awards in Africa: Impact and Lessons Learned

This study, in partnership with Partnering for Innovation (P4I), explores the impact of business development services (BDS) support to award-winning women entrepreneurs in emerging markets in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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.
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.