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Written in Bangla, these Training Flipcharts provide an overview of the benefits and advantages of using mobile money. They were developed by USAID's AIN project to train farmers in the Khulna region. The technical content has been field-tested and was written for rural farmers who may not grasp complex terminology. For example, the text is brief and large to help trainees better remember the training content. The flipcharts also include diagrams that illustrate how to navigate bKash on mobile phones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

This presentation focuses on the role that intangible factors such as risk perceptions, trust, transparency and leadership have played in CARE’s ability to achieve results.