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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.

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4.3.6. Applying the Value Chain Approach to Food Utilization

Value chain approaches can improve food utilization by integrating nutrition into value chain selection, adopting nutrition-sensitive value chain analysis, analyzing the implications of project design on nutrition, diversifying diets, promoting mixed allocation of production increases, leveraging relationships to improve household nutrition practices, adopting nutrition-sensitive value chain analysis, analyzing the implications of project design on nutrition, and supporting nutrition-sensitive processing upgrading, and identifying win-win opportunities to enhance food safety and value chain

4.3.4. Applying the Value Chain Approach to Food Access

There is significant scope for the value chain approach to inform policy and practices in improving household access to food. Improved access can be achieved by increasing and diversifying household food production, increasing and smoothing household income and consumption, and by reducing the cost of obtaining food. Strategies to achieve these are presented below.  

4.3.2. Applying the Value Chain Approach to Food Availability

Introduction Ensuring availability of food may require a combination of increasing production, reducing post-harvest losses, improving market efficiency of staple foods, and strengthening regional trade flows to link areas of surplus and deficit. It will in some cases also include improving the ability to acquire food provided by donors, though this should be a last resort given the negative consequences for markets and its unsustainable nature.

LIFT Project Factsheet

LIFT provides economic strengthening, livelihood and food security technical assistance to the US government and its implementing partners.

5.2.10. The BizCLIR Tool Framework

Introduction The BizCLIR assessment methodology reviews selected business enabling environment through four “lenses” – four dimensions: the legal framework, implementing institutions, supporting institutions, and social dynamics.

5.2.11. The MicroCLIR Process

Step 1: Value Chain Analysis Understanding the nature of the value chain is a key first step in conducting a MicroCLIR assessment. Assessors must understand how the value chain system functions, how the players interact with each other, how the good or services flow to end markets, and most importantly the incentives and governance structures of the industry.