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Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #3 on Keeping It Simple

In this third entry for Lab Notes, Senior Consultant Laura Kim chronicles how she learned how to keep things smart and simple, when it came to showcasing pre-COVID and post-COVID changes in international development practitioners’ desired levels of travel.

How Do You Rise to the Challenge of Extending Equitable Economic Opportunities to More Than 600,000 Women and Men in Northeastern Nigeria?

In this first installment of “In Search of More Equitable Impact” series, Holly Kreuger spoke with John Rachkara, Deputy Chief of Party, and Anuoluwapo Fashola (Anu), Gender Advisor for the USAID Feed the Future Rural Resilience Activity (RRA), about how they are facilitating equitable economic growth in a complex environment.

RECONOMY’s Inception Phase: Lessons on how to Navigate Complexity

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.

Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #3 on Keeping It Simple

In this third entry for Lab Notes, Senior Consultant Laura Kim chronicles how she learned how to keep things smart and simple, when it came to showcasing pre-COVID and post-COVID changes in international development practitioners’ desired levels of travel.

How Do You Rise to the Challenge of Extending Equitable Economic Opportunities to More Than 600,000 Women and Men in Northeastern Nigeria?

In this first installment of “In Search of More Equitable Impact” series, Holly Kreuger spoke with John Rachkara, Deputy Chief of Party, and Anuoluwapo Fashola (Anu), Gender Advisor for the USAID Feed the Future Rural Resilience Activity (RRA), about how they are facilitating equitable economic growth in a complex environment.

RECONOMY’s Inception Phase: Lessons on how to Navigate Complexity

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.

Andrew Panton

Senior Consultant

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.

JESSICA RUST-SMITH

Senior Consultant

I work across markets, business and supply chains, impact investing, agriculture, and women’s economic empowerment. I am an experienced monitoring, evaluation, research and learning consultant and project manager with expertise in the use of mixed methods, theory-based approaches and data collection and analysis. I have been working in M&E for market systems development for 10 years now, and going strong.