Enabling Environment

Market actors respond to the opportunities and constraints shaped by rules and norms at the global, national, or local levels. This topic includes: policy and regulatory reform, institutional capacity, and informal rules and norms.

Enabling Environment

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August 2, 2023

The Lebanon Enterprise Development (LED) was a five-year, $24-million United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Activity aimed at increasing employment opportunities in Lebanon by adopting a Buyer-Led Approach (BLA) with local firms to enable them to increase their sales and create jobs. This evaluation assesses the extent to which LED was able to meet its intended objectives and ensure the sustainability of its interventions.

By: Hoda SalmanMaya Trad

Lebanon

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August 7, 2023

This post was written by Habitat for Humanity's Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter and was originally published on the Vikāra Institute's website.

Ana Karen Rosales, a staff member with the Shelter Venture Lab in Mexico, conducts a case interview with a family in Chiapas about their experience with product prototype from Whirlpool. As part of the Handle With Care program, the Mexico Lab helped Whirlpool collect market data and conduct testing for a washing machine specifically tailored to the needs of the lowest income families without access to electricity or running water

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Approaches to economic growth should start with analysis, consider public and private contributions, and leverage possibilities across all sectors.

Inclusive economic growth creates opportunities for all people to engage through their labor and assets to meet market demand.

Market participation requires a range of financial solutions and investments to meet the needs of individuals, households, and firms as well as to meet national and sub-national financing requirements...

Market facilitation catalyzes market actors to create durable change for more competitive, inclusive, and resilient market systems.

The ability of individual firms to enter, compete, grow, and engage in value chains locally or internationally is what drives market development and economic growth.

Working with and through markets can help speed recovery and limit economic impact during and after disasters.

Working with the private sector enables donor agencies and nongovernmental organizations to achieve greater scale, effectiveness, and sustainable outcomes.

Sustainable poverty escapes require enabling vulnerable people to manage and mitigate risks while ensuring shocks and stresses don’t undermine development gains.

Women’s economic empowerment exists when women can equitably participate in, contribute to, and benefit from economic opportunities as workers, consumers, entrepreneurs, and investors.

Young people need opportunities for education, jobs, and income. Strategies that empower and engage youth economically contribute to growth and poverty reduction.