What Can We Learn from a Flagship MSD Program When It Comes to Achieving More Equitable Impact?

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In this entry of In Search of More Equitable Impact, Managing Partner Holly Krueger spoke with Ajla Vilogorac, who is the Director of Research, Impact Measurement and Inclusion at Market Development Facility (MDF), a large, well known, market systems development (MSD) program with more than a decade of insights from implementation in eight countries across the Asia-Pacific region to hear about three ways she is authentically mainstreaming GEDSI across the program and creating more equitable impact.

Andrew Panton

Senior Consultant

I am committed to improving human livelihoods and resilience in balance with nature. At the Canopy Lab, I provide research and advisory support to projects working on biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, nature-based solutions, sustainable tourism, and market systems development. Outside work, I’m a keen guitarist, cyclist and bookworm, with a love for food, travelling and learning languages.

JESSICA RUST-SMITH

Senior Consultant

I work across markets, business and supply chains, impact investing, agriculture, and women’s economic empowerment. I am an experienced monitoring, evaluation, research and learning consultant and project manager with expertise in the use of mixed methods, theory-based approaches and data collection and analysis. I have been working in M&E for market systems development for 10 years now, and going strong.