Resource Library

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.

March 25, 2024

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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By: Erin MarkelSabine GarbarinoYaquta Fatehi

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Quasi-experimental Evaluation Using Confirmatory Procedures: A case study of an economic and social empowerment intervention to reduce girls’ vulnerability to HIV in rural Mozambique

The purpose of the evaluation was to determine whether an economic and social empowerment intervention implemented in Zambézia Province, Mozambique reduced girls’ vulnerability to HIV.

Exploring Intersections Of Localised Gender Norms And Unanticipated Effects Of A Sexual And Reproductive Health Intervention: Implications Of Respect And Being A “Good Girl” In Zambézia Province, Mozambique

In this paper, we explore emic definitions of respect and girls’ good behaviour and perceptions of how the intervention caused improvements in behaviour from the perspective of intervention participants, their heads of household, influential men in their lives, and community members.

Economic Strengthening and Keeping Children in Family Care - Uganda Learning Event Compiled Notes and Presentations

This report compiles presentations and notes from the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) Family Care Uganda Learning Event, Economic Strengthening and Keeping Children in Family Care, held May 29-30, 2018.

Photo description: Women attend an open day session on the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security in South Sudan. Credit: Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID.

Women's Economic Empowerment and Savings Groups Resources

These papers examine the pathways between Savings Groups and women's empowerment, the evidence with respect to various outcome areas, and how women's empowerment outcomes can be enhanced and better sustained through Savings Groups.

Cost-benefit Analysis Of Mangrove Restoration For Coastal Protection And An Earthen Dike Alternative In Mozambique

The purpose of this analysis was to inform the decisions of the USAID/Mozambique-funded Coastal City Adaptation Project (CCAP) and the Government of Quelimane to protect the most climate-vulnerable residents in the peri-urban areas of this coastal city from climate change risks.

Final Report: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Social and Economic Empowerment Intervention to Reduce Adolescent Girls' Vulnerability to HIV in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

This post presents a Final Report: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Social and Economic Empowerment Intervention to Reduce Adolescent Girls' Vulnerability to HIV in Zambézia Province, Mozambique.

A Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation of an Economic and Social Empowerment Intervention to Reduce Girls’ Vulnerability to HIV in Rural Mozambique

An intervention including business training and health education was implemented in Mozambique, where girls are at elevated risk for acquiring HIV. As part of a mixed-methods evaluation, we describe perceived effects of the intervention on girls’ sexual behavior and school attendance.

Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children Training Materials: Facilitator's Guide, Participant Workbook and Slide Deck

The Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children Training Materials provides a set of workshop activities to enable practitioners to design economic strengthening programming that benefits orphans and vulnerable children.

Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children Training Materials: Facilitator's Guide

Savings Groups: Designing for Impact Training Materials - Facilitator's Guide and Slide Deck

This post links to the Savings Groups: Designing for Impact Facilitators Guide and Slide Deck.

Savings Groups: Designing for Impact Training Materials - Participant Workbook

This post links to a Participant Workbook from the Savings Groups: Designing for Impact Training in English and French.

Institutional Savings Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Appropriate Targeting Strategies

This brief focuses on the potential benefits of institutional savings, or savings services available through formal financial institutions, such as banks, credit unions, and other entities legally registered as financial service providers.

Where Dreams Meet the Market: ASPIRES Siyakha Girls Pilot Assessment

This report details findings from a qualitative assessment of the Siyakha Girls pilot conducted by ASPIRES in August 2019.

Daily Reminders for Strong and Self-Reliant Savings Groups

This post points to a resource from the USAID ASPIRES project: Daily Reminders for Strong and Self-Reliant Savings Groups.

Photo: Shown standing in a demo garden at St. Paul’s College, Nelima, Bridget, and Philomena are proud members of the Youth Farmers Club at their secondary school in Mbale, Uganda.

Graduation Approach for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Putting Together the Pieces - Training Materials (Facilitator's Guide, Participant Workbook, Slide Deck)

This post highlights the Facilitator's Guide, Side Deck and Participant Workbook from The Graduation Approach: Putting Together the Pieces training..

Leveraging Cash Transfers for HIV-Vulnerable Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Works Best? Evidence from a Microsimulation Analysis

This policy brief highlights key learning from a microsimulation exercise conducted by EPRI. It provides new evidence about the efficacy of targeting OVC populations through inclusive targeting approaches and criteria that are frequently used in sub-Saharan Africa.

Costing Unconditional Cash Transfers Technical Brief

This brief outlines an approach for estimating the financial costs of cash transfer programs. It discusses the ways in which various targeting approaches and design parameters can affect the financial costs of a program.

Understanding and Evaluating the Risks of Formal Savings Accounts for OVC Populations

This brief discusses methods for reducing risk associated with abuse or misuse of savings by adults, the potential for deterioration of savings, and the particular vulnerabilities faced by female savers.

Costing Complex Cash Transfers: A Case Study of the Savings and Investment Linkages (SAIL) Program in South Africa

This brief provides a framework for quantifying program costs based on the SAIL pilot model. SAIL was a youth-oriented cash transfer program working in combination with youth employment and development activities.

Synergies Between Cash and Care Interventions to Improve HIV Outcomes for OVC: Gap Analysis Report and Recommendations

This document complements a separate evidence brief on cash plus care, providing a summary of the major research gaps in terms of design issues, implementation challenges and impact questions.

Synergies Between Cash and Care Interventions to Improve HIV Outcomes for OVC: Cash Plus Care Evidence Brief

This brief highlights key findings, lessons learned, and recommendations for policy regarding the impact of integrated cash and care programs on HIV-related outcomes and vulnerability factors for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in sub-Saharan Africa.

Synergies Between Cash and Care Interventions to Improve HIV Outcomes for OVC: Programming Brief

This brief examines the experience of the Isibindi project, sponsored by South Africa’s government, and community intervention work by eSwatini’s Salvation Army to demonstrate the need for a holistic set of interventions to effectively respond to the range of vulnerability factors affecting OVC populations.

ASPIRES Evidence Brief Series: Individual Savings and HIV Outcomes

This brief focuses on individual savings interventions, which include formal or informal individual savings accounts in which participants save their own money, as well as individual matched savings interventions.

ASPIRES Evidence Briefs Series: Business Skills and Entrepreneurship Training and HIV Outcomes

Economic factors are linked to HIV risk behaviors, as well as outcomes, at every stage of the HIV care and treatment cascade. The ASPIRES project..

Photo: A young man is using a phone to look for buyers for his agricultural products. Photo Credit: Luesso Amuri Jean-paul

Clean Energy Lending Toolkit

The Clean Energy Lending Toolkit (CELT) describes procedures and shares case studies to help the financial industry determine the profitability and viability of lending to consumers, small and medium-sized enterprises, energy companies and project implementers.

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