Resource Library

Recently the book Value Chain Development and the Poor has been published. Here is the link to read the eBook for free: Value Chain Development and the Poor (practicalactionpublishing.com). if you would prefer a paperback or hard back copy of the book you can also order them on the website.

The Lab has put together a user-friendly guide on how to quickly carry out the end-to-end process of a market systems analysis.

This post shares guidance from the SEEP Network on how to apply the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards in a COVID-19 response.

This J-PAL literature review draws from 160 randomized and natural experiments in low and middle-income countries to distill key lessons on what we know about supporting women’s agency based on quantitative evidence.

Find resources here from February’s seminar, including the webinar recording and presenters’ slides.

Check out presenters' key takeaways, download presentation slides, and other post-event products from this Microlinks Seminar.

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

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 toolkit for facilitators of support to small forest enterprises was designed in response to needs expressed by in-country partners of the Forest Connect alliance.

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 Guide is a technical manual and a hands-on tool for companies to integrate human rights practices within their operations. In addition to standard international human rights protocols (Universal Declaration of Human Rights; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), the guide also addresses conflict-affected areas and the importance of corporate responsibilities with regard to international humanitarian laws.

This video was captured during the microinsurance training event organised by the Gordon Institute of Business Science and supported by the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, in October 2010. Janice Angove and Nashelo Tande, from the actuarial consultancy Quindiem, present the business case for microinsurance. Drawing on Quindiem’s research into insurance and the low-income market, Angove and Tande discuss how microinsurance can contribute to a company’s sustainability, the keys to success within this market and how insurers must balance innovation with good business practice.