Events

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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Available free of charge to development practitioners, the Cooperative IMPACT International Track is made possible by the U.S. Agency for International Development and generously sponsored by NCBA CLUSA, the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council and its members. Our theme this year is “Forward, Together, through Locally-Led Cooperative Development.”

As crises become more global and frequent in nature and economies more interdependent, the need to elevate the ways that market systems adapt to and proactively prepare for shocks and stresses is becoming more important than ever.

Join us for a dynamic learning event designed to share practical lessons in developing and delivering financial services that contribute to improving the resilience of low-income customers. The event will draw on the work of Savings at the Frontier and Scale2Save over the past six years with 20 financial service providers (FSPs) in 9 countries across Africa. Sessions include:

The 5th Anniversary of the ratification of the World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement demands reflection on the impact of the agreement thus far and the role trade facilitation plays in promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and more resilient societies. Implementation of the agreement to date shows progress but challenges remain, especially for developing and least developed economies.

Investors and businesses need clear, transparent, enforceable, and efficient rules to operate effectively in the marketplace. Research shows that entrepreneurship, new firm entry, existing business growth, and overall investment thrive most in stable and predictable environments, where there is trust among actors. A strong business environment often also translates into more jobs in the market.

On Thursday, June 30, a panel of local cooperative leaders and USAID staff from Haiti, Paraguay, and the Philippines discussed the relevance of cooperatives and their role in advancing USAID’s localization policy.

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Join us on May 31 for a webinar on private health start-ups and the support they need to succeed. The private healthcare market in low- and middle-income countries has grown significantly in the last decade and only increased in importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many innovators struggle to scale their ideas into viable businesses because they do not receive, or do not have access to, business development support and financial services tailored to their markets and unique needs.

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

The IPCC 6th Assessment report indicates the impacts of climate change that are already being felt around the Earth. The pace of this change is accelerating, and we must act now to avoid the worst consequences. As development practitioners, we know that these impacts will be felt the greatest by the most vulnerable people. COP26 showed a renewed commitment to 1.5%, with an outpouring of new initiatives and commitments from national governments and business leaders. Climate change advocates are calling for “systems change” as the only way to achieve real, transformational progress.

What is the food system? How is it different from the food environment? What does any of it have to do with market systems? Recently, major government investments and global conversations have highlighted how food systems transformation is key to building sustainable, equitable, and resilient growth.

This introductory session to Market Systems Development (MSD) will articulate how MSD differs from other development approaches, define key principles of an inclusive MSD approach, appreciate systems thinking and practice, explore systems mapping and analysis, and identify additional tools and resources. This session will employ a short presentation and video with interactive methods such as a game, quiz, and discussion Q&A.  Presented by: Swisscontact  

Private Sector Development (PSD) initiatives – in particular those aiming to drive innovation, economic growth, and job creation – often depend on significant investment to achieve their objectives. Equally, Development Finance Institutions and impact investors can benefit from the wider market-shaping activities of PSD programs. This synergy creates exciting opportunities for collaboration and greater impact.