Resource Library

The Resource Library serves as a broad resource hub, including over 1000 documents, training materials, wikis, and curated reports to increase readers' awareness, understanding, and proficiency of several topics in market systems development. Users have access to proposals, evaluation materials, and USAID policy updates, as well as training modules and wikis to boost skills and knowledge.

These resources are bolstered by the inclusion of curated USAID reports published on the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) which serves as a repository of reports from completed or ongoing USAID development projects around the globe. The full USAID Development Clearinghouse website can be accessed here.

Case Study Series: Women-Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI)

This series profiles select small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have implemented women-inclusive (WI) initiatives and can demonstrate returns on investment (ROI), features a learning note on MSP’s lessons for selecting and working with firms on WI initiatives, and a synthesis report, which pulls it all together—the practical application of WI-ROI within private sector firms and a suggested timeline for utilizing all the WI-ROI guides developed under MSP’s Learning Stream over the last several years.

The case study series features:

  • By: Erin MarkelSabine GarbarinoYaquta FatehiJenny Stankowski
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Business Environment Reform and Gender

Gender-sensitive reform of the complex conditions that govern business activities can positively impact women’s economic empowerment, support the fight against poverty and contribute to business and macroeconomic performance.

Reaching Deep in Low-Income Markets

This report analyzes 20 enterprises serving the BOP across multiple sectors to determine which characteristics help them to be more successful, assessing factors such as asset intensity, push vs pull products, and the types of income segments served.

Microinsurance Network Annual Report 2015

This publication provides an overview of the key highlights and achievements of the Microinsurance Network in 2015, and provides a brief introduction to the main future initiatives.

Dispute Landscape & Market Governance

This report investigates how frequently disputes occur, their underlying causes, and avenues for recourse function vis-a-vis a market's governance structure.

The State of Microinsurance 2017

Microinsurance solutions for climate change, focusing on pioneering ideas in the way microinsurance is being designed and offered and highlighting key lessons learned from a range of different programs and initiatives.

A Market Systems Approach to Decent Work

A brief on what a market systems approach to decent work really is, with cases of what the Lab has done to further this area of research and some of the evidence that it has uncovered.

Evidence and Guidance on Women's Wage Employment

This report provides guidance on women’s employment and explores a number of investments that can be made to increase gender equity in labor markets and improve the terms and conditions of women’s employment.

Vulnerability Assessments

Vulnerability assessments can help with designing programs to meet the needs of intended beneficiaries, more accurately target vulnerable households, and set indicative benchmarks for success.