Announcements

The Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity is launching a stocktaking of market systems development (MSD) tools to develop a curated, centralized, open-access web-based MSD tool repository. The tool library will be hosted, maintained, and kept up to date by the BEAM Exchange to ensure ongoing support and engagement of the MSD community.

This post was written by the ResilienceLinks.org team. Shocks and stressors including climate change, chronic poverty and disease outbreaks drive communities into crisis year after year. While shocks and stressors are inevitable, the lingering aftermath they often cause is not. Resilient individuals and communities are better able to achieve development goals, maintain development outcomes and thrive.

USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity invites you to participate in a short and important

We need your vote! Check out the video entries for SCALE’s Green Creative Adaptation Award and help us pick the most creative program innovation or adaptation to address climate change in agriculture, natural resource management (NRM), and off- and non-farm livelihoods. Cast your vote by November 12 and let your voice be heard! CLICK HERE TO VIEW AND VOTE  

Calling all employees of development and humanitarian assistance organizations!.   USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity invites you to participate in a short and important industry survey on the impacts of COVID-19 on development professionals and what employers can do about it.

Looking ahead to 2022, Marketlinks invites implementing partners in the market development and economic growth space to lead a theme month or share ideas for a webinar during the upcoming year.

Tell us about your best green adaptation!   Are you ahead of the curve? Creating green jobs, mobilizing climate finance or developing new partnerships, making adaptations more inclusive to protect communities and natural habitats—tell us! We want to highlight actions that are being taken now to adapt and protect against climate change. Has your program made an innovation in climate-resilient agriculture or green livelihoods that will have a positive impact on the environment? Tell SCALE about your creative adaptation—let us help you spread the word!

Image Registration is now open for USAID's new, self-paced 

The Climatelinks 2021 Photo Contest theme is Climate Change and People: The Challenges and Opportunities. We’re looking for submissions that capture the human dimension of climate change, in particular, social and economic responses to global change.

A new capital grant mechanism will allow the USAID CATALYZE Women’s Empowerment (WE) initiative, implemented by Palladium, to promote private sector investment to close the gender financing gap at scale in the near term. The grant mechanism is designed to influence the behavior of investors to invest in women-owned and women-led funds and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including first-time women fund managers and women investors.

USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity is conducting a rapid industry survey to document and understand the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting workforce participation and career ambitions of current and aspiring senior leaders on market systems development programs.

Have you had a chance to look at USAID's new Economic Growth Policy? Please consider authoring a blog for publication on Marketlinks during the month of May!

Nigeria is presently confronted with a food security crisis that is deepened by COVID-19 global pandemic and its negative consequences on the food value chain in the country. The pandemic has severely affected an already weak agri-food system and value chain across the nation.

Facilitated by IDEAL, the Food Security COVID-19 Learning Event will create an opportunity for emergency and non-emergency practitioners of USAID/Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance-funded activities to:  Pause and reflect on the lessons learned so far from implementing emergency and non-emergency food security activities during the COVID-19 pandemic;  Explore innovations and adaptations resulting from the response to a changing environment;  Discuss the implications and applicability

The Financial Digital Literacy Campaign activity is looking for partners that already engage women at scale (e.g., through savings groups, women entrepreneur networks) and are interested in integrating digital financial literacy into their work!

The Department of State's Office of Global Women's Issues has issued a Request for Statements of Interest: Global Support for Women's Economic Empowerment - Access and Reform Implementation by Civil Society.

The MRR Innovation Lab invites researchers at U.S. universities to submit proposals for research projects that support their mission to generate and transfer into action innovations that will bolster resilience, keeping rural individuals, households, communities and markets in positions of economic viability from which they can sustain and accelerate a path of inclusive agricultural growth.

ACDI/VOCA is looking for a dynamic market systems specialist, with strong grounding in market systems development, private sector engagement, and/or collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA) concepts to join the Market and Food Systems team within ACDI/VOCA’s Technical Learning and Application Department.

The Global Practice Specialist (GPS) will support the Agriculture, Market Systems and Resilience (AMSR) Practice within Economic Growth in Development Innovations. The GPS will be responsible for supporting the Global Practice including leading and supporting new business efforts in this thematic area, developing technical solutions, knowledge management, and product development, with a primary objective of demonstrating DAI’s thought and technical leadership and increasing sales and marketing.

USAID’s Private Sector Engagement Hub is excited to announce the launch of a new, online Mobilizing Finance for Development Global Learning Series in Spring 2021. Ahead of the launch, we are seeking fresh examples (i.e. vignettes) of creative ways in which private (commercial or impact) financing has been generated to further development objectives. 

CRS is seeking a Technical Advisor for Social Protection and Cash Programming. 

CRS has a new agency strategy, and as part of it we have established the Homes and Communities strategic platform, which indirectly targets 8.5 million people to secure safe and dignified homes and communities over the next decade. Recognizing the central role markets can play in achieving scale, CRS seeks to better understand how to more systematically leverage market opportunities in order to achieve these ambitious targets.