Key Takeaways On Various Approaches to Market Facilitation from Mina Shahid, EWB

Mina Shahid of Engineers Without Borders shares his key takeaways from the Breakfast Seminar #71, "Driving Organizational Change: Taking the Value Chain Approach from Principles to Practice." In this video, he discusses how market facilitation differs from other types of development interventions, four common ways that projects get facilitation wrong, and what they can do to improve.

Bio: Mina Shahid

Mina Shahid is a Market Development Strategist with Engineers Without Borders (Canada). He has recently completed a contract based in Uganda working with the USAID LEAD project where he conducted a field officer assessment and organizational diagnostic to aid LEAD in improving implementation of the value chain approach. Before joining LEAD Shahid worked on improving the value chain approach of the AGRA Soil Health Project in Northern Ghana. Prior to working in agricultural market development, he consulted the Government of Ghana in evidence based development planning. Shahid holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Toronto.