Conducting sector strategy review meetings

Adaptive management is an essential part of market systems development programming. Sector strategy review meetings are currently in use in many successful programmes as an internal, team-based approach to adaptive management.

This brief provides guidance on how to effectively prepare for and conduct a sector strategy review meeting that uses monitoring information to make evidence-based decisions on programme management.

By incorporating examples and templates, such as those from the PRISMA programme in Indonesia, the paper ensures that teams can systematically review progress, address challenges, and adapt strategies to achieve sustainable results in dynamic market systems. This improves programme adaptability, effectiveness and impact.

Accompanying template (xlsx download): Template for summarising system change assessment findings

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Aimed at programme practitioners and teams involved in MSD such as: programme managers, team leaders, M&E specialists and implementation teams.

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Watch recordings of these related BEAM webinars:

• March 2022: Get started on assessing system change
• April 2020:  A pragmatic approach to assessing system change