Events

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

How important is the inception phase of an MSD programme? This webinar will look at what drives, or hinders, the success of an inception phase by sharing perspectives from different development practitioners – a donor, an implementer and a consultant. The panel will explore: How long is too long? What are the necessary conditions for an inception phase to work? Why do some inception phases fail and what are the consequences for the implementation phase?  Join us for a panel discussion and audience Q&A.

Do you want to learn how to effectively promote Local Economic Development (LED) and Market Systems Development (MSD) in your project or location? Join Mesopartner in Vietnam this September for a training event on A Systemic Approach to Local Economic & Market Systems Development. The training will provide a comprehensive introduction to the two approaches and look at their commonalities and differences.

The European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with the Canadian Institute of Technology will organize the 11th ICSD 2023 International Conference on Sustainable Development, with particular focus on Environmental, Economic and Socio-Cultural Sustainability. The Conference theme : Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: Research, Practice and Education.

Creating Change through Communications (CCTC) provides an overview of key strategies and tools for leaders and communications professionals at MSD/PSE programs and projects. In 9 weeks, you will: - Learn communication strategies and tactics for mission-driven organizations and MSD/PSE programs - Receive guided development of a tailored communications strategy - Get 1:1 support from the Discovered Markets Team - Join a vibrant community of like-minded individuals - Obtain a certificate of completion

How have recent conflicts impacted global peace? What can the changing geopolitical landscape tell us about the likelihood of future conflict? How can youth enhance and engage in peace and conflict resolution? Join Mr.

Are you a young entrepreneur seeking to launch and sustain your business? After this webinar, you will know more about:

USAID's Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Policy recognizes that private sector resources and capabilities are required to work at the scale needed to address development challenges effectively and sustainably. Mobilizing private capital has become an increasingly important part of this effort. USAID’s INVEST initiative has successfully engaged transaction advisors to mobilize over $800 million in investment capital for renewable energy, agriculture, financial services, and other priorities.

Speakers: Gituku Ngene, Senior Global Advisor – Jobtech, Mercy Corps Mercy Mangeni, Senior Venture Building Manager - Jobtech Alliance Meseret Tefera,Team Leader - LIWAY, Mercy Corps Technology is disrupting labour markets across developing countries – changing how work is accessed and delivered, and how productivity and skills are improved. There is a rise in job platforms that facilitate the matching and delivery of work – with over 350 in Africa alone.

The USAID Women’s Economic Empowerment Community of Practice (USAID WEE CoP) held a learning event, “Preparing a Gender-Inclusive Power Sector Workforce for the Future,” on Thursday, June 29th, from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. (ET).

International tourism is recovering rapidly, with the number of travelers in the first quarter of 2023 doubling compared to the same period in 2022. 

Featuring perspectives from the CEO of an agribusiness in Uganda, a leader in Honduras’ BDS and finance ecosystem, and implementers at Gatsby, ACDI/VOCA, and MarketShare Associates - this webinar will unpack several practical examples where firms, ecosystem actors, and programs are strengthening firm and system-level learning capacities.

The cost of cow feed is 60 to 70 percent the cost of producing a liter of milk in Kenya. For dairy farmers, it means that using improved forage varieties and nutritionally balanced rations makes a genuine difference to their income. What’s more, the higher likelihood of drought and high temperatures in eastern Africa — an effect of climate change — underlines the need for a stronger forage market system.

Moderator: Ron Ashkin, Technical Director, DT Global Africa Speakers from Private Sector Partnerships in Health (PSPH) programme, Somalia and Somaliland:  Hamda Warsame, Intervention Manager, Hargeisa, Somaliland Dr Mohamed Jimale, Intervention Manager, Mogadishu, Somalia

This event will convene industry leaders, buyers, processors, investors, development finance institutions (DFIs), donors, and other relevant stakeholders with business interests in sustainable agriculture and forestry sectors in Southeast Asia. The event will close out USAID Green Invest Asia after six successful years transforming the sustainable agriculture and forestry sectors in Southeast Asia, in collaboration with businesses, investors, and financial institutions.

The first in a two-part webinar series, this event will make the case for why USAID is increasingly sharpening its focus on strengthening learning capacities not only within USAID staff and its implementing partners, but also within stakeholder partners and the systems in which USAID engages.

Markets are volatile by nature and the MSD approach involves analysis and programming to strengthen the ability of markets to bounce back from economic disruptions. This webinar will share examples from the Australian-Indonesian PRISMA programme, with Nina FitzSimons, Mohasin Kabir and Prajwal Shahi

The World Bank is gearing up for its Development Impact Week which will mark the launch of its flagship report "Driving Revolutionary Ideas into Practice". 

Join the Business, Entrepreneurship, and Private Sector Engagement (BEPSE) Community of Practice (CoP) for an interactive workshop on overcoming the various bureaucratic challenges faced by young entrepreneurs in Kenya.

Launched in 2014, the World Bank’s Trade Facilitation Support Program (TFSP) assists developing countries to align their trade practices with the World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO TFA).

USAID Green Invest Asia and the Global Coffee Platform are co-hosting the webinar “Establishing Carbon Footprint Baselines for Robusta Coffee Production in Vietnam and Indonesia: Results & Lessons Learned from Industry Collaboration”, the sixth and final webinar in the Sustainable Coffee Dialogue series, which follows from a June 2022 webinar that introduced a pre-competitive collaboration model that is developing industry-accepted carbon footprint baselines for coffee production in key origins.

Many small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Western Balkans lack adequate information on how to access affordable finance, expand their businesses, and improve their supply chains. This is particularly true for women-owned SMEs (W-SMEs). To unlock private capital for SMEs and W-SMEs in the region, USAID CATALYZE initiated the Engines of Growth Activity (EoG).

The USAID Women’s Economic Empowerment Community of Practice (USAID WEE CoP) held a learning event titled “Beyond Inclusion: User Protection for Women in the Digital Economy” on Thursday, March 30, 2023, from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Washington, DC time (ET).  While digital financial services have delivered substantial financial inclusion benefits and opportunities for women, they have also exacerbated user risks. 

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Sustainable market systems development is rooted in its ability to achieve broad-based, inclusive economic growth. However, many markets are deeply inequitable and exclude women, older people, youth, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups. Humanitarian and development practitioners can help fulfill the promise that markets hold for improving livelihoods by supporting disenfranchised groups’ access to markets as a key pathway for economic empowerment.