Events

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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USAID Green Invest Asia, GIZ, and Sustainable Coconut Steering Committee (SCSC) will convene the 7th Sustainable Coconut Roundtable in-person in Makati City, Philippines, with the theme “Advancing Resilient and Sustainable Coconut Supply in Southeast Asia.” The roundtable, to be held on the sidelines of a Philippine Coconut Alliance meeting, convenes stakeholders actively involved in coconut supply chains with shared interests in sourcing and capturing investment opportunities in sustainable coconut and coconut oil value chains.

Through partnerships with large companies, development organizations and donors hope to achieve impact and reach with their operations, sustainability, and innovation. This will be key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, such collaborations carry risks since the goals and values of the unlike partners differ. What does it take to reach benefits for the poor and the companies based on the sustainable use of natural resources? And how can mutual understanding be fostered and pitfalls be avoided?

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.”

About the event A Call to Action on how innovation commercialisation could be improved in Botswana, with learnings transferred to other Southern African countries using the UB Digital Entrepreneurship Pod (DEP)-EU partnership.

Marketlinks hosted a seminar on November 20th, 2019 to discuss how some USAID activities are shifting mindsets around co-creating with the private sector, tailoring operational mechanisms, and leveraging partnerships to create change for vulnerable populations.

Mark your calendar for the #MarketSystemsSymposium2019, taking place April 8-11 in Cape Town, SA. Registration is open now!

On November 28th, Marketlinks, Agrilinks and the USAID Center for Resilience hosted an event on Health, Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes.

Marketlinks explored how policies and regulations limit or enable women to enter, remain, and advance in the workforce;, including restricting employment of women, requiring occupational licenses, addressing employment discrimination, and more.