- Date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Location
- Online
- Organisation
- BEAM Exchange
BEAM Grab the Mic webinar
Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
Time: 8am (UTC) / 9am (UK) / 10am (CEST) / 11am (Kenya/EAT) / 2pm (Bangladesh) / 3pm (Bangkok) / 4pm (Australia/AWST) / 6pm (Australia/AEST) / 8pm (Fiji) [time converter]
Speakers
From Australia’s Market Development Facility (MDF):
Angus Towart, Climate Change Manager
Nadhia Najeeb, Business Advisor
Nimesha Sumaduri Palliyaguru, Business Advisor
There is increasing demand for Market Systems Development programmes to engage more meaningfully with climate change. Meeting this challenge requires changes in how programmes are managed internally, how they engage with businesses and how they measure success.
Australia’s Market Development Facility (MDF) is a long-standing programme currently active in Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and Tonga. Its third five-year phase (2022-2027) included a specific climate change objective for the first time.
The speakers will discuss how MDF underwent an internal transformation to engage more meaningfully with climate change - reviewing portfolios, developing strategies, establishing new roles, structures and systems, and embedding climate thinking into how field teams work with businesses.
They will share practical examples of how to assess climate change risks and opportunities and integrate these into market systems strategies. This will include portfolio examples from agriculture and tourism sectors in Sri Lanka.
Additional Information:
See also Angus Towart's blog: MSD as a practical approach for climate action