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.

Case Study Series: Women-Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI)

These case studies profile select small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have implemented a women-inclusive intervention and can demonstrate financial returns for that investment. The case studies help address a gap in evidence from firms in lower- and middle-income countries on the return on investment (ROI) from women’s inclusion and unpack themes from USAID’s Women Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI) Framework.

The case study series features:

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YFS-Link Video: Farzana Kashfi, BRAC, Bangladesh

BRAC’s Social & Financial Empowerment of Adolescents (SoFEA) program offers a holistic approach to financial services, supplementing savings and credit products with a “club,” where adolescent female clients have a safe place to meet.

Taking Stock: Financial Education Initiatives for the Poor

The aim of the “Taking Stock: Financial Education Initiatives for the Poor” report is to understand the landscape of financial education programmes for low-income households, what works in financial education programmes for these households, and why.

5.5.2.4. IA Zambia

PROFIT Zambia is a five-year project that began in June 2005. It is funded at the level of $15 million, including $5 million for local grants. The Cooperative League of USA (CLUSA) implements the project with the Emerging Markets Group (EMG) and International Development Enterprises (IDE) as sub-contractors.

5.5.2.3. IA Kenya

The Kenya Business Development Services (BDS) Project and the Horticulture Development Centre (HDC) Project support USAID/Kenya’s strategic objective of increasing rural household incomes in Kenya. They seek to raise smallholder productivity, widen market outlets, facilitate vertical and horizontal linkages, and promote the sustainable development of business services for rural MSEs.

5.5.2.2. IA India

The Growth-oriented Micro-Enterprise Development (GMED) India Program is a three-year (extendable to a fourth-year) project with the goal of developing sustainable institutions and policies that will enable (MSEs) to grow into larger businesses and thus increase employment opportunities, thereby increasing employment opportunities in India.

5.5.2.1. IA Brazil

The USAID/Brazil Micro and Small Enterprise Trade-Led Growth Program is intended to demonstrate that targeted assistance to key small lead firms can open export markets and lead to increased sales. Because the lead firms selected for assistance involve large numbers of microenterprises, as suppliers of finished and semi-finished products, and hire low-income workers, the increased sales will benefit small microenterprises and the poor through expanded opportunities to supply goods and services tot he lead firms, increased employment, and income.

5.5.2. PSD-IAI Assessments

Conducting a good impact assessment of a value chain project involves the following steps (the steps assume two research rounds—a baseline and follow-up):

PROFIT Zambia Impact Assessment

Over the past decade, a new generation of private sector development programs has evolved. These programs emphasize sustainable and pro-poor economic..