Resource Library

This brief identifies and analyzes different techniques practitioners use to measure agency in programs that promote WEE. It is practitioner-led, with a focus on finding practical frameworks, tools, and good practices in measuring agency.

Facilitation is used as a means to incentivize behavior change and foster the adoption of new ideas by private sector actors.

USAID is working to identify and mitigate the implicit and explicit barriers to entry to economic enterprise, including those related to persons with disabilities.

In the absence of more structured and controlled impact assessments, it is still unclear as to which interventions are more likely to create and grow female-led SMEs, and why.

Grounded in an overview of CARE’s approach to resilience, this session features evidence and lessons learned from some of CARE’s most successful market engagement initiatives.

This was the third plenary session on the 2012 SEEP Annual Conference and explored different forms of private sector partnerships that are effective in reaching scale and driving benefits for the poor in market systems/value chains.

This plenary panel brought together practitioners and experts to explore cutting edge thinking of effective ways to measure results of market and financial development interventions.

This research project provides a set of recommendations to donors and development agencies to formulate more efficient and timely workforce development initiatives that will enhance economic as well as social upgrading.

The steps and frameworks of this guide aim to make sense of the day-to-day activities of a facilitator and outline how project managers can provide support and guidance to enable their staff to be effective, responsive facilitators.

Value Chains and Nutrition provides an important overview of the theoretical and actual application of the value chain approach to improving nutrition.  It outlines the pathways through which the two can interact, and then summarizes eight case studies in which value chain-related initiatives have addressed nutrition.

In this presentation, Sebstad and Manfre discuss a framework that considers how gender influences behaviors in agricultural value chains with a particular focus on upgrading.

This presentation by TechnoServe presents the organization's strategy for improving nutrition through its work with the private sector. Five strategies are outlined: nutritional reviews, food fortification, commercialization of nutritious food, crop diversification, and encouraging embedded nutritional services by value chain actors. The presentation briefly examples two examples of how this strategy could be applied.

LabourNet creates benefits for migrant workers in the informal sector by offering a platform to access essential services.