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.

The case study series features:

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How to Influence Agricultural Finance Decision Makers

This brief from the Mastercard Foundation Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab highlights research aimed to help those working in agricultural finance.

Economic Strengthening Interventions to Address Known Barriers to PMTCT and Improve Health Outcomes: What Do We Know and What Are the Knowledge Gaps?

This brief provides an overview of the key findings from a literature review conducted by the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) project.

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Economic Strengthening Interventions to Address Known Barriers to PMTCT and Improve Health Outcomes: What Do We Know and What Should We Do With This Evidence?

This brief provides an overview of the key findings from a literature review conducted by the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) project.

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USAID Publication — Primer on Blockchain: How to Assess the Relevance of Distributed Ledger Technology

This primer aims to equip international development agencies and partners to assess whether and how distributed ledger technology (DLT), such as blockchain, might apply to their work.

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Brief: Measuring the Value for Money of Acceleration

An introduction and methods brief that provides guidance for practitioners interested in assessing the value for money of acceleration programs.

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Resilience in Action Technical Brief: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion

This technical brief focuses on programmatic shifts at the intersection of resilience, gender equity, and social inclusion, which are essential in situations like the 2004 tsunami or extreme drought conditions.

State of Practice: Savings Groups and the Dynamics of Inclusion

The SEEP Network published a new state of practice report that provides a comprehensive overview of the inclusion of vulnerable populations in Savings Groups.

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Practical Tools and Frameworks for Measuring Agency in Women's Economic Empowerment

This brief identifies and analyzes different techniques practitioners use to measure agency in programs that promote WEE. It is practitioner-led, with a focus on finding practical frameworks, tools, and good practices in measuring agency.

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New Insights on the Systemic Approach to Creating More and Better Jobs

A third of the global labour force is not earning enough to lift themselves and their families above the poverty line. Although most development and government programmes focus on creating more jobs, it's clear that we need to focus on their quality as well.

ASPIRES Evidence Brief Series: Employment Support and HIV Outcomes

This brief focuses on technical training and its effects on 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: Savings Groups and HIV Outcomes

This brief addresses the evidence linking savings groups (SGs) to 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: Financial Education and HIV Outcomes

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

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.

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.

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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.

Microfinance with Bundled Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children

This post features a brief that discusses bundled services that can be linked to community-based or institutional microfinance to benefit orphans and vulnerable children.

An Introduction to Programming for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Savings Groups

This publication is a general overview of youth savings groups, with information, best practices and evidence on the use of community-based savings groups with and for orphans and vulnerable children and youth, including those affected by HIV/AIDS.

Savings Groups for Orphans and Vulnerable Children and Youth

This post features a brief that provides guidance to practitioners working with orphans and vulnerable children. It illustrates the benefits of SGs for vulnerable children and youth and illuminates issues to keep in mind when piloting SGs with this target population.

How Thinking and Working Politically Through Applied Political Economy Analysis is Critical to Market Systems

This brief aims to demonstrate how the use of applied political economy analysis is critical to the effective design and execution of inclusive market systems activities.

Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families (ESFAM) - Matched Savings Accounts - A Learning Brief

This Learning Brief draws on information collected via focus group discussions, individual interviews, and project data.

Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families (ESFAM) - Children and Youth Savings Groups - A Learning Brief

This Learning Brief draws on project documents, focus group discussions and individual interviews to document ChildFund International’s experience with Children and Youth Savings Groups for highly vulnerable children in Uganda’s Kamuli, Luwero and Gulu Districts.

Challenges in OVC Graduation Programs: Benchmarks, Sequencing, and Backsliding - OVC Graduation Brief Series: 1 of 4

This post introduces a brief on PEPFAR guidance that economic strengthening is a key component of OCV programs.

Refining Economic Strengthening Benchmarks for Graduation, PEPFAR OVC Graduation Brief Series: 2 of 4

This post introduces the second brief on PEPFAR guidance that economic strengthening is a key component of OCV programs.

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