Resource Library

Facilitation is used as a means to incentivize behavior change and foster the adoption of new ideas by private sector actors.

This was the third plenary session on the 2012 SEEP Annual Conference and explored different forms of private sector partnerships that are effective in reaching scale and driving benefits for the poor in market systems/value chains.

This plenary panel brought together practitioners and experts to explore cutting edge thinking of effective ways to measure results of market and financial development interventions.

This research project provides a set of recommendations to donors and development agencies to formulate more efficient and timely workforce development initiatives that will enhance economic as well as social upgrading.

Value Chains and Nutrition provides an important overview of the theoretical and actual application of the value chain approach to improving nutrition.  It outlines the pathways through which the two can interact, and then summarizes eight case studies in which value chain-related initiatives have addressed nutrition.

In this presentation, Sebstad and Manfre discuss a framework that considers how gender influences behaviors in agricultural value chains with a particular focus on upgrading.

This presentation by TechnoServe presents the organization's strategy for improving nutrition through its work with the private sector. Five strategies are outlined: nutritional reviews, food fortification, commercialization of nutritious food, crop diversification, and encouraging embedded nutritional services by value chain actors. The presentation briefly examples two examples of how this strategy could be applied.

Value chain development in conflict-affected environments.