Learning with the Toolmakers—SEEP Webinar Series

Webinar Series about Market Facilitation Tools in Action

The field of inclusive market facilitation is composed of a range of approaches that rely on market demand and incentives to promote sustainable poverty reduction at scale. In 2014, the Market Facilitation Job Tools portal was launched. The portal, created in collaboration with the USAID Leveraging Economic Opportunities project, supports field staff in managing and running inclusive market systems development programs. By collecting and sharing existing tools, this initiative aims to:

• Avoid reinventing the wheel every time we, as facilitators, need a tool to do our job
• Promote reflection about the functions of the tools and the assumptions and hypotheses that underpin them 

The current resources include templates, guidelines, tools, and illustrative examples that are being used by market facilitation practitioners and project managers to implement or manage their activities. We now seek to develop this portal into a knowledge repository and a learning hub by promoting discussions about the tools and tapping into the practical experiences of the practitioners who designed and are using the tools.

Learning with the Toolmakers is a webinar series featuring discussions that highlight why the tools were designed and how they have been used to operationalize the principles of inclusive market systems development.