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.

November 20, 2023

This announcement was originally posted on Climatelinks.

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Market Systems Innovations – From the Field

DFID has been one of the leading agencies in Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P), a market systems approach that works with the private sector to catalyze changes in markets that benefit the poor. DFID’s flagship M4P project in Kenya is the Market Assistance Programme (MAP), managed by Mike Field, a recognized leader in value chain and M4P approaches. Field and his team are exploring innovative, scalable solutions in cross-cutting systems and specific value chains.

Pushing the Limits: Lessons from CARE on Market Systems Approaches, Food Security, and Resilience (Event Resources)

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.

Inclusive Value Chain Development: Reaching the Very Poor in the Philippine Mariculture Industry (Event Resources)

Marian Boquiren of SDCAsia and Anna Cuny Garloch of ACDI/VOCA discuss emerging insights as to how the value chain approach can more effectively be leveraged to “pull” the very poor into markets.

Working in Complex Systems: The Rubber Value Chain in Indonesia (Event Resources)

This presentation introduces a model for working in complex systems and then demonstrates that model using the international development challenge of strengthening a rubber value chain in Indonesia.

Tools for Mending Weak and Fractured Value Chains (Event Resources)

Curtis Hundley of DAI shares practical activities that can sustainably ignite private sector development where inter-firm trust is missing, business relationships are fragile, and commercial excess and market linkages are minimal.

VC Learning Event: Facilitating Sustainable Change (Session Resources)

The related resources below are products of the "Facilitating Sustainable Change" session of USAID's Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development: A Learning Event. Session Description:

VC Learning Event: Financing Value Chains (Session Resources)

The related resources below are products of the "Financing Value Chains" session of USAID's Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development: A Learning Event. Session Description:

Formalization of the Warm Milk Channel in Kenya: A Study in Effective Facilitation (Presentation)

SITE’s work in Kenya's warm milk trade has been an iterative process, relying on numerous types of facilitation to address each challenge as it unfolded, incentivizing a fragmented informal sector without lead firms to collaborate, improve its performance and increase the benefits to its participants. By demonstrating the benefits to regulation and formalization, there has been significant upgrading in the value chain, crowding in of new entrants, and substantial increases in the volumes of milk traded and profitability for the actors.

Behavior Change Perspectives on Gender and Value Chain Development (Presentation and Screencast)

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.