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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 was the final plenary session of the 2012 SEEP Annual Conference and focused on emerging methodologies designed to assist the ultra poor to build financial and non-financial assets, including their savings and entrepreneurial skills.

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.

Updated figures regarding the actors of microfinance in France and abroad, as well as the results of an exclusive IPSOS opinion poll on what French people think of microfinance.

EMMA is a set of tools and guidance notes. It encourages and assists front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate and make use of market-systems. It does not offer a simplistic blueprint for action. However, EMMA does provide accessible, relevant guidance to staff who are not already specialists in market analysis. The EMMA toolkit adds value to established humanitarian practices in diverse contexts.

This video shows a case study on how an MFI in India, KKFF, supported farmers with targeted agro services following the devastating tsunami.

Can VSLAs contribute to food security by increasing food availability & access? Case studies in Sierra Leon and Tanzania show that they do?

VEGA's vision is to international efforts to combat poverty and promote sustainable economic growth in emerging markets.

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.

Psychological and socio-economic benefits of utilizing children's' development accounts.