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Translating evidence of MSD impact into better programming decisions
*Registrations open* Date: 24 September 2026. Speakers: Elina Scheja & Elisabet Montgomery, Sida / Anirban Bhowmik, Swisscontact / Steve Hartrich, ILO
Does MSD really work? Evidence from recent ex-post evaluations
14 July 2026. Speakers: Almir Tanovic, Embassy of Switzerland in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Gareth Davies, Tandem / Ben Fowler, MarketShare Associates / Kristin O'Planick, Independent (formerly USAID)
Comment l'analyse systémique a façonné le projet Béninclusif
21 mai 2026. Intervenant(e)s : Emmanuel Bossennec, Swisscontact / Ana Gabriela Chinchilla, Alterna. Modérateurs : Pascal Fabing, Luxdev / Daniel Langfitt, Consultant
The MSD Team Leader competency framework: practical applications
12 March 2026. Speakers: Mike Klassen, BEAM Exchange / Tim Sparkman, The Canopy Lab / Marshall Bear, Independent Consultant / Fouzia Nasreen, Independent Consultant / Shahroz Jalil, VisionSpring
From risk to returns: using market systems approaches to mobilise investment
24 February 2026. Speakers, from the CASA team: Steve Morris / Innocent Thindwa / Siddarth Khadka / Ailsa Buckley
Invisible barriers - addressing gender norms for lasting transformation
17 February 2026. Joint DCED-BEAM webinar. Speakers: Antonique Koning, CGAP / Nisha Singh, CGAP / Sophie Mills, FSD Network / Victoria Adong Abuin, FSD Uganda
How to achieve meaningful inclusion in MSD
29 January 2026. Speakers: Holly Krueger, The Canopy Lab / Reema Shrestha, NAMDP / Isuri Munasinghe, MDF
Green MSD: making markets work for people, climate and nature
4 December 2025. Speakers: Tom Hilton, Independent / Andrew Panton, Canopy Lab / Kevin Seely, UK DEFRA / Sabine Jiekak, Independent (former Chief of Party of the USAID for CEERC)
Climate change evolution in MSD: lessons from the Market Development Facility
23 October 2025. Speakers from Australia’s Market Development Facility (MDF): Angus Towart, Nadhia Najeeb, Nimesha Sumaduri Palliyaguru
The role of smart incentives in MSD
23 September 2025. Speakers from MEDA: Omoneka Oyier, Jonathan Yelevielbayire, Zakaria Issahaku
Job creation through quality management in agribusiness
26 June 2025. Speakers from Helvetas, RisiAlbania: Stephan Joss, Gramos Osmani
Effective monitoring, evaluation and learning for MSD programmes in fragile contexts
May 2025. Alexandra Miehlbradt, Collins Apuoyo, Anne Brady, Nabanita Sen Bekkers
Boosting youth employment in consumer goods retailing
April 2025. Rose Blidi Kansuah and Robert Gwee Walker, Mercy Corps, Liberia
Anchoring the systemic development of the chars: lessons from the M4C in Bangladesh
March 2025: Helal Hussain, Swisscontact / Syeda Zinia Rashid, Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh / Harald Bekkers, Opportunities Unlimited
MSD for employment: state of practice
January 2025: Mike Klassen / Justin van Rhyn
Market transformation in commodity sectors: how do private sector development organisations catalyse change?
December 2024: Renske Aarnoudse, IDH / Lindi Hlanze, Gatsby Africa / Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar, Innovision Consulting / Jodie Thorpe, Institute of Development Studies / Moderated by Dave Boselie, IDH
Reviewing the latest evidence: what impact has the MSD approach achieved?
November 2024: Tom Hilton, Freelance economist / Ajla Vilogorac, CAPRED / Ben Fowler, MarketShare Associates
How to change public policy using an MSD approach: cross-sectoral lessons from LIWAY
September 2024. From LIWAY: Alemtsehai Ejigu, Meseret Tefera, Yewubdah Hailu / Ben Taylor, Agora Global
Using evidence to guide intervention design for the Somalia IRiS programme
May 2024. Alexandra Cervini Mull and Jason Wares, Itad / Silas Ochieng, DT Global
Where do MSD leaders come from? Building the next generation
April 2024: Mike Klassen, BEAM Exchange / Fouzia Nasreen, Independent consultant and long-term advisor, Swisscontact / Dhita Radcliffe, Mercy Corps Ethiopia / John Rachkara, Mercy Corps Nigeria
Beyond the last mile: applying MSD in host and refugee markets in Ethiopia and Uganda
March 2024: Paul Joicey, SHARPE Ethiopia / Collins Apuoyo, IAM Uganda
Greening the MSD approach in agriculture
January 2024: Clara Garcia Parra, The Canopy Lab / Md Mohasin Kabir & Gracia Christie Napitupulu, PRISMA (Indonesia) / Innocent Thindwa, CASA (Malawi)
The digitalisation of job matching services in Kosovo
November 2023: Albina Berisha & Valbona Rraci, EYE Kosovo / Justin van Rhyn
From inception to inspiration
September 2023: Elene Tkhlashidze, RECONOMY / Jorge Reyes, TMS Honduras / Holly Lard Krueger & Clara García Parra, The Canopy Lab
Can Jobtech create sustainable decent work for millions of unemployed youth?
July 2023. From Mercy Corps: Gituku Ngene / Mercy Mangeni / Meseret Tefera
Starting from zero: creating systemic impact in Somalia’s healthcare space
June 2023: Ron Ashkin, DT Global Africa / Millicent Oketch & Hassan Eymoy, PSPH
The shocking facts: navigating and bouncing back from market shocks
May 2023. From PRISMA: Nina FitzSimons / Mohasin Kabir / Prajwal Shahi
Innovative applications of the MSD Competency Framework
March 2023: Nina FitzSimons (PRISMA) / Paul Ndungu (Gatsby Africa) / Fernando Martinez Cure (ILO) / Mike Klassen (BEAM Exchange)
Women-Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI) framework - improving development outcomes for women & marginalised groups
January 2023: Erin Markel (MSA) / Ryan Bourque (MSP)
Applying an environment and climate change lens to an MSD programme: insights from RECONOMY
December 2022. From Helvetas: Anastasia Bekish / Zenebe Uraguchi
Designing & delivering MSD youth employment programming in sub-Saharan Africa
November 2022: Justin van Rhyn / Appiah Boakye / Meseret Tefera / Rachel Shah
Bridging the gap: unlocking synergies between private sector development and development finance
September 2022: Alex Kucharski, British International Investment / Arjun Bhoopal, Gatsby Africa
Responding to shocks using market-based approaches: insights from RDC Bangladesh
May 2022: Cuan Opperman / Bidowra Khan / Mark Sevier, ACDI/VOCA
Tactical responses - how GROW Liberia delivered results in a thin and crisis-affected setting
April 2022: Alex Elphinstone (ASI) / Kim Beevers (GROW) / Sabine Garbarino (GROW) / Umar Mohammed (GROW)
Get started on assessing system change
March 2022: Ritesh Prasad (GROW Liberia) / Ajla Vilogorac (The Market Development Facility) / Farzana Amin (PRABRIDDHI Bangladesh) / Aly Miehlbradt (Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd)
Breaking new ground: application of the MSD approach to land certification in Ethiopia
January 2022. From the LIFT team: Andy Smith (DAI) / Ignacio Fiestas (Nathan Associates) / Solyana Amsalu (Consultant) / Enrico Neumann (Nathan Associates)
Greening Market Systems Development
December 2021: Isaac Cowan-Gore (ILO) / Gramos Osmani (RisiAlbania) / Sara Pauli (Markets 4 Recycling) / Clara Garcia Parra (Independent consultant)
Empowering women and girls through private sector engagement: lessons from SPRING
November 2021: Heidi Ober and Gordon Freer, Tetra Tech International Development
A business approach to Market System Development - the Élan RDC story
November 2021: Gregoire Poisson, Edwige Takassi and Raouf Saidi from Elan RDC
What results did the MSD approach deliver? A review of the latest evidence
October 2021: Luis Osorio-Cortes (MSD specialist) / Mike Albu (BEAM Exchange) / Rachel Shah (Springfield Centre) / Kristin O'Planick (USAID)
#Digital4MSME: using the market systems approach for digital transformation
October 2021: Maximilian Schulz (MSD Consultant) / Eric Nana Kwabena Agyei (MobiPay Uganda) / Laura-Kristin Baric (GIZ Ghana)
Growing agribusinesses to overcome market failures
September 2021: Mark Thomas and Camila Studart (Nathan Associates)
Adapting MSD to fragile and conflict-affected situations: lessons for COVID response
July 2021: Karri Byrne (Senior Market Systems Advisor) / Aysha Johnson (FCDO) / Laura Meissner (USAID) / Sasha Muench (Mercy Corps) / Corrie Sissons (CRS)
Rebuilding fragile markets with unconventional MSD partners
July 2021: Salamatu Baba Tunzwang (Propcom Mai-karfi) / Gbenga Ariyo (Propcom Mai-karfi)
The road to jobs during a protracted crisis
June 2021: Tonderai Manoto, R2J (ILO) / Zakia Samimi, SIYB Afghanistan / Jan Mohammad Dosti, R2J (ILO)
Formalisation and the MSD approach: business growth, resilience and improved working conditions
March 2021: Judith van Doorn (ILO) / Helen Bradbury (ALCP) / Roel Hakemulder (Consultant) / Merten Sievers (ILO)
Better systems, better jobs: a closer look at value-chain development for decent work
Feb. 2021: Valerie Berset Bircher (SECO) / Merten Sievers (ILO) / Khairul Islam (ILO) / Raji Rajan (Gatsby Africa) / Matt Rippley & Elisa Mandelli (ILO)
How MSD enhanced Nigerian farmers’ resilience to COVID-19
January 2021: William Grant (DAI) / Dara Akala (PIND Foundation) / Precious Agbunno (PIND Foundation) / David Elliott (Gallus Edge)
How the private sector is adapting to Covid-19: country-level analysis from the World Bank
November 2020: speakers from the World Bank - Filip Jolevski / Gemechu Ayana Aga / Marcio Cruz / Denis Medvedev
How to do MSD procurement: practical insights from donors and implementers
October 2020: Roger Oakeley (The Springfield Centre) / Elin Carlsson (SIDA) / Grace Becton (Mercy Corps) / Nina FitzSimons (PRISMA,Palladium)
Employment rewired: Youth Impact Labs learning event
September 2020: Phil Greiner (Mercy Corps Jordan) / Khaleel Najjar (Mercy Corps Jordan) / Jerioth Mwaura (Mercy Corps Kenya)
Contrasting commercial agri-extension success stories in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria
June 2020: William Grant (DAI) / Precious Agbunno (PIND Foundation) / Susan Maina (Kenya Markets Trust) / David Wozemba (Gatsby Africa)
Top-down or bottom-up? How development actors can promote Economic Transformation
June 2020: Dirk Willem te Velde, ODI / Matt Ripley, Impact-Management / Arjun Bhoopal, Gatsby Africa / Kåre Johard, Sida / Gun Eriksson Skoog, ILO
Adapting MSD programmes in response to COVID-19
May 2020: Debora Randall, NU-TEC, DFID / Collins Apuoyo, IAMA, USAID / Warwick Thomson, Independent consultant
A pragmatic approach to assessing system change
April 2020: Aly Miehlbradt, Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd / Hans Posthumus, Hans Posthumus Consultancy / Rachel Shah, Springfield Centre / Adam Kessler, DCED
Proven impact: results of the independent evaluation of Propcom Mai-karfi
March 2020: Gordon Freer, Evaluation Team Lead, WYG / Nur Azam, Director of Results, Learning & Knowledge Management, Propcom Mai-karfi
Women in the workplace: how better data can lead to systemic change
January 2020: Julia Hakspiel, AWEF / Adriano Scarampi, AWEF / Professor Stephanie Barrientos, WOW / Erin Markel, MarketShare Associates
Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA)
January 2020: Farbod Youssefi, The World Bank
MSD business models: how to build competency in business and financial analysis
December 2019: Matt Ripley, ILO, The Lab / Tonderai Manoto, ILO, Afghanistan / Niklaus Waldvogel, Helvetas, Kosovo / Mike Klassen, BEAM Exchange
Transforming systems for professionalising farmer organisations
November 2019: Mark Blackett, AMEA / Sabrina Amburgey, ACDI/VOCA / Harrison Kaziro, Agribusiness Unit at Uganda Cooperative Alliance
Reviewing the evidence - how effective is the MSD approach?
October 2019: Kevin Conroy, Private Sector Development Consultant / Adam Kessler, DevLearn / Mike Albu, BEAM Exchange
Disruptive technologies - an innovations system approach
September 2019: Marcus Jenal, Decision Support Unit / Meredith Baker, Country Director DRC, Viamo / Lucine Le Moal, ELAN RDC Team Leader
Applying BEAM’s MSD Competency Framework
July 2019: Mike Klassen & Amir Allana, BEAM Exchange / Ailsa Buckley, Swisscontact / Will Baron, MercyCorps / Deepak Dhoj Khadka, iDE
Better jobs in Africa’s booming construction sector
June 2019: Steve Hartrich, The Lab Project, ILO Geneva and Alexander Twahirwa, Labour Market Governance Officer, ILO Rwanda
Promoting systemic change in shallow markets – lessons from experience
March 2019. Aly Miehlbradt, Director, Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd / Collins Apuoyo, Team Leader, NU-TEC MD, Uganda
AgResults: building inclusive market systems through private sector prize competitions
March 2019. Aviva Kutnick, USAID / Rachel Lambert, DFID / Parasto Hamed, AgResults Secretariat
M4C's experience of applying market systems
Feb. 2019. Dr Syeda Zinia Rashid, Embassy of Switzerland, Bangladesh. M4C: S M Mahmuduzzaman / Jannat Adib Chowdhury / Anirban Bhowmik
In search of the sweet spot in implementing MSD programmes
Nov. 2018: Harald Bekkers, Director, Opportunities Unlimited B.V./ Marshall Bear, MSD consultant
Implementing adaptive management in DRC
Oct. 2018: Andrea Talbot-West & Frédéric Chetcuti, Essor / Nathan Hulley, ELAN RDC / Marcus Jenal, DSU
Managing market system development – implications for donors
Sept. 2018: MSD Working Group webinar - Itad and Sida discuss Sida's evaluation of its portfolio of MSD programmes.
Extreme poverty alleviation using MSD
Sept. 2018: Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar, Innovision Consulting and Saif MM Islam, CARE Bangladesh
Aquaculture goes to market: jobs for youth in Warri City, Nigeria
July 2018: James Elekwachi and Faith Soya, PIND Foundation
Restructuring for impact
June 2018: Ron Ashkin, AECOM / Dalia El Molla, AECOM / Iman Elibyary, AECOM
Making markets work for refugees
Feb 2018: Debora Randall, Swisscontact / Peter Douglas and Collins Apuoyo, Palladium / Ailsa Buckley, Swisscontact
Market systems and job quality
December 2017: Steve Hartrich, ILO / Raksha Vasudevan & Ben Fowler, Marketshare Associates / Sebastien Moineau, BIF Myanmar
Shaping inclusive markets
November 2017: Harvey Koh, FSG / Ahmed Irfan, FSG
Financial markets in protracted crises
June 2017: Tim Waites, DFID / Joe Huxley, Financial Sector Deepening Africa / Thea Anderson, Mercy Corps
Developing markets for sanitation - where to start?
May 2017: Aprajita Singh and Sanjay Singh, Population Services International, India / Jan Willem Rosenboom, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Hiring for adaptive management
March 2017: Amir Allana, Consultant / Alison Hemberger, Mercy Corps / Matthias Herr, Helvetas Swiss Int. / David Ratliff, US Agency
Rethinking systemic change
May 2017: Dr Shawn Cunningham & Marcus Jenal, Mesopartner / Andrew Koleros, Palladium / Harvey Koh, FSG / Duncan Green, Oxfam
Beyond gendered social norms
March 2017: Marcus Jenal, BEAM Exchange / Erin Markel, MarketShare Associates / Fahd Georgy and Sabrina Haque, DAI
From analysis to action
March 2017: Mark Thomas, Nathan Associates / James Blewett, Maxwell Stamp / Bill Grant, DAI / Jodie Thorpe, BEAM Exchange
Facilitating labour market systems for youth employment
February 2017: Gavin Anderson, Consultant / Dr Jon Burns, Springfield Centre / Merten Sievers, ILO / Zenebe Uraguchi, HELVETAS Swiss Int.
Leveraging local market systems networks
Jan 2017: Margie Brand, EcoVentures Int. / G. Okeyo, Self Help Africa / Rifat Zareen Nadia, MDF Bangladesh / J. Merz, Helvetas / R. Pradh, Swiss Contact
Guidance: ALCP Investment Manual
December 2016
The road to adaptive management
October 2016
Getting to scale
October 2016
Challenge of scale
July 2016
Gender norms and unpaid care
July 2016
Evaluating programmes
April 2016
Women's economic empowerment
March 2016
Market facilitation in aid-intensive contexts
January 2016
Strengthening entrepreneurship
November 2015
Violence against women and girls
November 2015
Evidence for market systems approaches
September 2015
Facilitating change in thin markets
September 2015
Systemic M&E tools
June 2015
Wage labour
May 2015
Collaborating with the private sector
April 2015
Assessing attribution
March 2015
Health sector innovation
February 2015
Using MSD to support public agricultural extension services
January 2015
Assessing systemic change
November 2014: Jim Tanburn, DCED / Matt Ripley, ILO Lab / Tim Tuckett, SAMARTH
Adaptive management in aid programmes
December 2014