Events

Join members of the research community, development practitioners, and USAID staff at the USAID Higher Education Global Evidence Summit: Engaging Higher Education for Change through Employability, Innovation, and the Private Sector, which will take place virtually over three weeks in May 2022.

COVID-19’s impact on the workplace for international development. We shared the results of new research conducted by Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships and discuss with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders at major implementing partners timely strategies for employers to mitigate impact on our industry’s talent pipeline, in particular recent DEI gains in the industry.

Learn about Local Labor Market Assessments and how youth-serving organizations can use such assessments in their work. Thursday, April 28, 9-10am ET Advance registration required. Register here to join the discussion!

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  

This webinar  will cover technology innovations in low-carbon coffee production in Southeast Asia, including farm-based digital solutions and remote sensing applications. Participants will learn more about how technology facilitates carbon accounting and monitoring in support of a carbon-neutral coffee sector.

This Market Systems Resilience (MSR) training will introduce participants to key concepts presented in USAID's Market Systems Resilience framework and, more importantly, understand how MSR is relevant and can be applied to your MSD work. Case examples will be shared around how different programs have integrated resilience-lenses in a variety of contexts. Presented by: Vikāra Institute (formerly operating as EcoVentures International)  

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

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. 

As an MSD practitioner, it is important to understand how retail distribution functions evolve over time in order to reach last mile customers as a market becomes more inclusive and resilient. This session will explore this evolution and will focus on proven business tactics that practitioners could integrate in their work. Business tactics will be explored from both the development objective perspective as well as the business growth perspective.

USAID Green Invest Asia, Barry Callebaut, and GIZ convene the 6th Sustainable Coconut Roundtable on March 31, 2022 focused on “Securing Coconut Farmers’ Sustainable Livelihoods”.

This webinar explored the care economy – a priority gap highlighted in the U.S. government’s first-ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality.

On March 29, 2022, members of the USAID Women's Economic Empowerment Community of Practice (USAID WEE CoP) attended a learning event focused on the findings and recommendations from the USAID WEE CoP’s research on women’s economic empowerment and private sector engagement.

Join USAID’s Center for Resilience and RTI International on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at 9:00am EST to learn about findings from the Feed the Future Somalia Camel Leasing to Impact Resilience Activity and how they can inform future research.

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.

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Seven years into the conflict, 20 million Yemenis remain in need of assistance. Yet the humanitarian response in Yemen remains severely underfunded. In light of predicted humanitarian funding shortfalls and unprecedented scale of need, aid actors in Yemen are learning to do more with less. Working with and strengthening informal local support systems is therefore more important than ever. 

USAID Green Invest Asia and the Global Coffee Platform co-host this climate finance webinar exploring the coffee industry’s low-carbon economy, which features panel discussions with corporate partners, investors, and experts supporting net-zero commitments to mobilize climate finance. Confirmed presenters include investors U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, Sail Ventures, First Degree Global Asset Management, Rabobank, VPBank, along with World Coffee Research, international coffee merchant Sucafina, and Vietnam coffee exporter SIMEXCO.

Marketlinks and the Alliance for eTrade Development II (“eTrade Alliance”) held a webinar on Wednesday, January 26 at 9:00am EST exploring how ecommerce has emerged as a crucial tool for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth, and the roles that donors and private sector partners can play in ushering an equitable and inclusive digital transformation for SMEs in developing markets.

This webinar will explore the potential for programmes using the market systems approach to be designed to incorporate environmental concerns such as climate change, biodiversity and natural resource depletion.  Drawing on a recent ILO guide, the webinar will explore how greening the MSD approach is compatible with the promotion of decent work and poverty reduction more broadly. Two case studies will be presented: RisiAlbania in Albania and Markets 4 Recycling in Bolivia 

Whether you’re a donor, government, corporation, or development organization, how you implement your agricultural projects has long-term sustainability implications. Nowadays, people realize just how important data-led development is but are stuck between either choosing time (and cost) consuming research or conducting rudimentary and superficial assessments. Thanks to SCOPEinsight’s use of innovation and technology, implementers can now attain meaningful and actionable data for their agricultural projects.

Marketlinks, USAID/India, USAID MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery, and private sector partners held a webinar on Tuesday, November 30 sharing practical examples of leveraging the private sector for greater immunization program reach.

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Which models, incentives and businesses are best suited to achieve lasting systemic change? A recent evaluation of SPRING explores how they addressed this question.  Gordon Freer and Heidi Ober, the independent evaluators of SPRING, will use this webinar to examine some of the lessons learned from the SPRING evaluation.

A discussion on lessons learned for building resilience in protracted crises and conflict-affected settings

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