Resource Library

LEO is researching a diversity of models that implementing agencies are using to solve the issue of linking smallholders to input and output markets. The research focuses on the principles and conditions that made these models effective.

This report presents first-year findings from a multi-year study on account uptake and saving patterns and performance in youth savings accounts in four countries: Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal.

El Programa de Desarrollo Económico Local-PRODEL, financiado por la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional -USAID, ha culminado con éxito cinco años de trabajo en las zonas fronterizas del norte y sur del Ecuador.

Save the Children has partnered with a local bank in all four countries – Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal – to co-create savings accounts for these low-income teens.

Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA) is a rapid market analysis designed to be used in the short-term aftermath of a sudden-onset crisis. This report uses the EMMA tool to analyze the beans market system in the Sud-Est (Southeast) department of Haiti in March-April 2010, several months after the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The report examines constraints in the beans market system, the earthquake-related disruptions that persist, and provides short-term and long-term recommendations.

This document, produced under a primer series on social safety nets, assesses the role of food aid in improving food availability and food access. It is based on a synthesis of experiences in four countries:  India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Zambia. It concludes that food aid does not have to create negative impacts, particularly if it is tied to the development of infrastructure that supports production and market linkages, avoids creating negative price effects for food producers, and reaches the food insecure.

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