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This report provides insights on Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) as a distribution channel for microinsurance in Asia.

The information contained in this report represents the collective insights of 39 microfinance association leaders from 33 countries across Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia.

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.

An analysis of evidence from seven projects that the value chain approach leads to patterns of outreach, outcomes and sustainability.

The advantage of participatory workshops.

Findings from the baseline impact assessment of the GMED program in Jaipur, India.

This case study describes how one food retailer in India is expanding its outgrowing activities to include rural farmers.

Documents innovations used to facilitate access to finance and unleashing the potential of the agricultural sector.