Events

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. 

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

Image Join us for this launch event of the Market Based Programming (MBP) Toolbox!

Image Join SCALE's 3-part “Resources Showcase” Serie

On October 27, USAID and Chemonics hosted a webinar discussing key lessons from the Colombia RFI experience and explored how they overcame cultural misconceptions and structural barriers to reach Venezuelan migrant clients and mobilized $11 million in finance.

Image The 5th Annual Market Systems Symposium will bring together experts, practitioners and donors from around the world to advance conversations exploring inno

This webinar will focus on the tactics that enabled GROW Liberia to make a difference:

As seen throughout the current pandemic, the health needs of a population cannot be met without timely access to quality-assured health products. COVID-19 has renewed global attention around the importance of diversifying a country’s supplier base, thereby opening up an immediate opportunity to strengthen and focus efforts around local and regional manufacturing of health products.

Élan RDC, one of UKAID's flagship MSD programmes, came to an end in July 2021 after over seven years of operation. This webinar will focus on lessons learnt executing a market systems programme in a challenging environment, which tested the limits of the MSD methodology and approach.  Using examples from Élan RDC's renewable energy and access to finance sectors, the team from Élan will discuss how they applied the MSD methodology.

1-5 November and 15-19 November 2021

Balancing the challenges and needs of private sector actors operating in fragile and conflict-affected environments with the humanitarian mandate is an area of creative tension and opportunity for developing context-sensitive, market-based approaches that are the cornerstone of lasting recovery and resilience for conflict-affected people. For development practitioners, effectively and sensitively navigating both those spaces and leveraging the synergies therein is key to developing mutually beneficial partnerships to achieve lasting, market-based development outcomes.

The USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded award Strengthening Capacity in Agriculture, Livelihoods and Environment (SCALE) and Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa  (ISSD Africa), through the Mercy Corps’ led action learning activity Developing the Seed Sector in Fragile states, are interested to learn about innovative examples of models for s

This Marketlinks webinar looked at the integration of psychosocial support interventions with traditional economic recovery programming. Speakers from Action for Hunger, International Rescue Committee, and Catholic Relief Services shared successful examples from their programming in Iraq, South Sudan, and El Salvador and Honduras.

BEAM Grab the Mic webinar in collaboration with Marketlinks Date: 5th November 2020 at 9am (NY/DC), 2pm (GMT/UTC), 3pm (EU), 5pm (Kenya/Somalia), 8pm (Bangladesh) Speakers from the World Bank:

On June 18th, 2020, Marketlinks hosted a webinar discussing the challenges USAID and its partners are facing during COVID-19. The pandemic is disrupting financial systems that were expanding the variety of products offered to businesses globally. Can certain interventions help them stay afloat?

Marketlinks hosted a webinar on February 19th, 2020 to learn more about the third edition of the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS). This webinar explored practical guidance and tips for mainstreaming MERS at the donor, institutional and practitioner level.

On February 6th, Marketlinks, Agrilinks, and the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project hosted a webinar examining the enabling environment for agricultural market systems in fragile contexts.