Events

This webinar focuses on the varied career pathways of MSD leaders and what implementers and donors can do to create more opportunities for local staff to grow into senior leadership roles.Lead author of Where do MSD leaders come from? (and where do they go?), Mike Klassen will walk through the key pathways and transition points.

Forging successful partnerships with the private sector often involves overcoming practical barriers like institutional competition, overlapping agendas, distributional disputes, and organizational legacies that hinder innovation. 

Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2024 Speakers: Paul Joicey, Team Leader, Strengthening Host and Refugee Populations in Ethiopia (SHARPE) Collins Apuoyo, Chief of Party, Inclusive Agricultural Markets Activity (IAM) Uganda The application of the MSD approach to programmes working in a context of protracted displacement is relatively new, but part of a wider movement that is encouraging the private sector to include refugees within their business models. 

On March 6, 2024, the USAID Women's Economic Empowerment Community of Practice (USAID WEE CoP) hosted, “Examining Gender-Based Violence and Women’s Economic Empowerment in Environmental Contexts.”  We appreciate the 115 attendees from 26 countries who joined this virtual event and would like to extend a special thank you to our speaker and panelists:

Smaller enterprises in the agriculture sector have long struggled to access adequate and timely capital for their business activities, despite their critical role in moving food from farm to fork. The development finance sector has increasingly focused on such enterprises, launching various funds and initiatives to bridge the estimated US$ 74.5 billion annual financing gap they face across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cooperatives are uniquely positioned to champion their local communities, creating the foundation necessary for long-term development impact. They are created and owned by the communities they serve, empowering local people and institutions to own the planning, implementation and evaluation of their own growth and sustainable development.

USAID CATALYZE, a Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Hub project, is innovating new ways to engage with the private sector by speeding up the grant procurement process to mobilize capital towards underserved sectors, geographies, and populations globally.

Date: Tuesday 23 January 2024 Speakers: Clara Garcia Parra, Senior Consultant, The Canopy Lab Md Mohasin Kabir, Interim CEO & Nasir Ahmed, Chief Technical Officer, PRISMA (Indonesia) Innocent Thindwa, Country Intervention Manager, CASA (Malawi) This webinar focusses on the concepts and methods that are needed to properly consider climate and other environmental factors in the design and implementation of MSD programmes.

In the developing world, banks and private sector investment funds are two of the largest sources of capital for agricultural small and midsize enterprises (agri-SMEs). Banks are by far the farthest reaching, serving a large portion of the market through their branch networks. While having the potential to transform both local economies and food systems through agricultural financing, they often take too conservative of an approach to lending, have demanding collateral requirements, and tend to be focused on short loan tenors.

On December 14, 2023, the USAID Women's Economic Empowerment Community of Practice (USAID WEE CoP) hosted “Gender and Climate in Global Supply Chains: Private Sector Innovations in Practice.” We appreciate the 106 attendees from 31 countries who joined this virtual event and would like to extend a special thank you to our speaker and panelists: 

Image This webinar will explore the importance and evolution of private job matching services in the development of labour markets for young women and men.

Mark your calendars for November 14-16, 2023, for MSS2023 in Cape Town, South Africa. Join us in an immersive experience where industry leaders, experts, and visionaries come together to exchange ideas, foster collaboration, and shape the future of market systems. Key Themes Include: Climate Change & Adaptation, Conflict-Affected Contexts,  Food Security and Food Systems.

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Ecommerce is opening new opportunities for developing country micro, small, and mid-size enterprises (MSMEs) to engage in trade, grow, and create new jobs. The Alliance for eTrade Development II Activity (eTrade Alliance) is a Global Development Alliance (GDA) implemented in 2019-26 between USAID and 13 leading private sector partners, and supported by implementing partners Palladium and Nextrade Group, aimed to advance developing country MSMEs' use of ecommerce, including for cross-border trade.

Engaging and empowering youth to design and drive systems change.  Insights from the Youth Resilience Activity (YRA) programme in Colombia and how it focused on integrating youth perspectives into systems development at various stages of the five-year programme.

This event will provide humanitarian and development practitioners, government stakeholders, private sector representatives and actors as well as donor agencies the opportunity to come together around the shared objective of enhancing inclusive private sector development and engagement in forced displacement settings. Through presentations, panel discussions and in-depth breakout sessions, this 3-day event will share lessons learned from different countries and situations.

By 2028, Building Markets will drive $400 million in new revenues to small business owners, improving the lives of economically vulnerable individuals and families, and bolster inclusive economies by increasing buyer confidence, increasing the availability of working capital, and creating more jobs in communities where they are needed the most. How will we do this?

One year after the launch of the Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS) Policy, USAID is excited to host the first annual Learning and Feedback Forum, which will take place virtually over six days between Tuesday, October 10, 2023 and Thursday, October 19, 2023. The Forum will help inform the direction of Policy implementation for the coming year and consists of 11 virtual one-hour sessions that are open to the public and USAID staff.

In the 1950s, Toyota pioneered “lean manufacturing,” a practice adopted by manufacturers around the world. But lean doesn’t just apply to manufacturing giants. The methodology is just as valuable to businesses of any size and sector that have processes, whether to manufacture a product or to deliver a service.

This unique training workshop, held every two years, brings together experienced results measurement practitioners to share lessons learned, solve common problems, exchange practical approaches and build a supportive network. It has gained a reputation for empowering practitioners with cutting edge and yet practical tools and techniques in results measurement to improve program management, impact and accountability.

In the 1950s, Toyota pioneered “lean manufacturing,” a practice adopted by manufacturers around the world. But lean doesn’t just apply to manufacturing giants. The methodology is just as valuable to businesses of any size and sector that have processes, whether to manufacture a product or to deliver a service.

About the Event Please join the YP2LE Youth Systems Strengthening (YSS) Community of Practice (CoP) on Thursday, September 28th at 9 AM ET on Zoom to hear directly from two leaders whose lived experiences and innovative, strategic efforts are transforming the mental health and child protection (also referred to as “child welfare”) systems in the United States:

On September 28, 2023, the USAID Women’s Economic Empowerment Community of Practice (USAID WEE CoP) hosted, “Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Early Childhood Care Programming.”  We appreciate the 86 attendees from 25 countries who joined this virtual event and would like to extend a special thank you to our speaker and panelists:

The Small and Growing Business (SGB) Evidence Fund is a partnership between the International Growth Centre (IGC) and

Join the YP2LE Youth Engagement (YE) Community of Practice (CoP) and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) for the second in a two-part webinar series about the role of youth in promoting peace! Hear from Mr. Serge Stroobants, Director for Europe & MENA Region and Global Director for Security, Defense, and Intelligence from the Institute for Economics and Peace Brussels Office, about the IEP’s transformational Positive Peace framework, as well as its Positive Peace Academy. Thursday, September 21st, from 9 to 10 AM Eastern Time on Zoom