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April 4, 2023

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) affirms that gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment are fundamental for the realization of human rights and key to effective and sustainable development outcomes. For societies to thrive, women and girls, men and boys, and gender-diverse individuals must have the agency, social support, and structures to make their own choices and live free from violence and abuse. They must have equal rights and opportunities, as well as equal and safe access to and control over resources.

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Photo: Farmers harvest morning glory together from their nutrient-rich home garden in Cambodia.

Blended Finance in Cambodian Rural Water Supply: Triggering Private Water Operator Investment with Viability Gap Funding

Cambodia has experienced high rates of economic growth and poverty reduction but has struggled to translate the benefits of growth and poverty reduction into equitable access to water and electricity throughout the country.

Economic Strengthening and Social Empowerment Training for Female Sex Workers

This curriculum is designed to equip female sex workers (FSWs) with the skills needed to set life goals, communicate effectively, understand gender, take action against gender-based violence, empower themselves, and manage their finances and business affairs.

Markets in Fragile Contexts Technical Resource Summary

EEFS' technical one-pager highlights learning from the full eastern DRC SeedCLIR report, two technical articles, and a global webinar to describe how development actors and policymakers can facilitate an improved enabling environment for seed in DRC through a phased approach.

Increasing Women’s Profitable Participation in Market Systems Technical Note

Building a supportive enabling environment for women agri-entrepreneurs and agricultural wage workers is key to supporting women’s profitable participation in agricultural market systems.

Photo: Two women exchanging goods and money. Cover photo for the MERS Handbook.

Post-Event Resources: Mainstreaming the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards for Improved Market-Based Programming

Marketlinks hosted a webinar on February 19th, 2020 to learn more about the third edition of the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS). This webinar explored practical guidance and tips for mainstreaming MERS at the donor, institutional and practitioner level.

Photo: two women working on the Nyalungana swamp reclamation activities in the DRC.

Podcast: Global Private-Sector Engagement Trends

Listen to a new podcast from Cardno International Development, Dalberg Advisors, and EcoVentures International as they discuss private sector engagement and share current market systems development trends.

Photo: A young man sells his produce in a Dhaka market in Bangladesh.

Introducing the CGAP FY 2019 Annual Report

This report discusses three broad areas where financial services could play a role in improving the well-being of poor people.

How Male Engagement in Savings Groups Can Contribute to Financial Inclusion and Women's Empowerment

This learning brief explores how improved male engagement can further strengthen Savings Groups as a platform for financial inclusion and women’s economic empowerment.

ASPIRES Evidence Brief Series: Vocational Training and HIV Outcomes

This technical brief analyzes the evidence for vocational training and its effects on HIV outcomes.

ASPIRES Evidence Brief Series: Financial Education and HIV Outcomes

This brief summarizes the evidence for financial education and its effects on HIV outcomes.

ASPIRES Evidence Brief Series: Unconditional Cash Transfers and HIV Outcomes

This brief focuses on the evidence linking unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) to HIV outcomes.

ASPIRES Evidence Brief Series: Savings Groups and HIV Outcomes

This brief addresses the evidence linking savings groups (SGs) to HIV outcomes.

ASPIRES Evidence Series: Income Generating Activities and HIV Outcomes

This brief focuses on income-generating activities (IGAs) and their impacts on HIV outcomes.

ASPIRES Evidence Brief Series: Employment Support and HIV Outcomes

This brief focuses on technical training and its effects on HIV outcomes.

Meeting the Costs of Family Care: Household Economic Strengthening to Prevent Children's Separation and Support Reintegration: A Resource Guide

This resource guide provides information on matching household economic strengthening activities to specific needs and capacities of individual families and to the different contexts in which they live.

ASPIRES Family Care Qualitative Research Report

This report discusses the findings of research into the role economic strengthening plays in preventing unnecessary family-child separation and supporting the reintegration of formerly separated children into family care.

ASPIRES Family Care: Family Resilience (FARE) Project Endline Quantitative Findings Report

This report reviews the methods and findings from quantitative research into the outcomes of the Family Resilience (FARE) project.

ASPIRES Family Care: Economic Strengthening Interventions to Prevent Family Separation and Support Reintegration of Children in Family Care (ESFAM) Project Endline Quantitative Findings Report

This report reviews the methods and findings from quantitative research into the outcomes of the Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children in Family Care (ESFAM) project.

ASPIRES Family Care Summary Research Report

This report discusses the findings of research into how economic strengthening (ES) interventions can help prevent unnecessary separation of children from families as well as support the reintegration into family care of children who were already separated.

Family Resilience (FARE) Project Costing Report

This report provides an analysis of the Family Reintegration (FARE) project's recorded costs by intervention category and attempts to determine incremental costs of the interventions themselves.

Mapping the Effects of OVC Programming and Social Protection: A Case Study of the Community Care Program in Mozambique

This case study of the Community Care Program in Mozambique aims to better understand how orphans and vulnerable children programs connect to social protection programs and what outcomes they produce.

Savings Groups Plus: A Review of the Evidence

This document is a literature review conducted to identify the research evidence on the integration of savings groups (SGs) and other development activities—called SG plus (SG+).

Photo: cover of EEFS seed report, hand holding seeds

Post-Event Resources: Markets in Fragile Contexts: Lessons from the Seed Market System in Eastern DRC

Marketlinks, Agrilinks, and the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project hosted a joint webinar on Thursday, February 6, 2020, examining the enabling environment for agricultural market systems in fragile contexts.

Photo: Smallholder in Nepal gain access to improved technology

Embracing Complexity Towards a Shared Understanding of Funding Systems Change

This report provides donors and investors, as well as charitable initiatives and organizations, with answers to the two following questions: How can systems change across the world be financed more effectively? How can change be better supported for the benefit of society?

Photo: An Afghan man prepares to cut aluminum profiles used in making windows and doors

Closing the Gaps: Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles

This report identifies five alternative approaches for providing finance that meets the diverse needs of each SGB segment and investor.

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