The Canopy Lab synthesized the evidence and extracted learnings from World Vision Australia’s global portfolio of economic empowerment programs across three core pillars: inclusive Market Systems Development (iMSD), Financial Inclusion (FI), and Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE).
The Canopy Lab partnered with GenderSmart & 2X Collaborative Care Economy Working Group to produce two briefs to amplify the importance of investing in the care economy. These documents are geared toward investors, investment influencers and related actors who are interested in starting or deepening their engagement with the care economy through more gender-smart capital allocation.
Between October 2021 and May 2022, Canopy’s Managing Partner Holly Lard Krueger authored a series of bi-monthly blogs for Marketlinks. This series, called The Market Corner, explored the application of systems thinking in international development.
In this first Lab Notes entry, Senior Consultant Laura Kim shares her journey in trying to tell a better story – through data visualization – on the impact of COVID-19 on global development professionals.
This research — which includes input from 950 development professionals across humanitarian, WASH, agriculture, and economic growth fields, representing all career levels, 23% minority voices, and 92 nationalities—explores professionals’ shifting perspectives on their careers in light of the seismic changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This brief explores the GESI mainstreaming experience of the UKAID-funded Essor Program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It identifies key successes and lessons learned from this journey, and offers an updated framework for GESI in Business Environment Reform (BER).
This study, in partnership with Partnering for Innovation (P4I), explores the impact of business development services (BDS) support to award-winning women entrepreneurs in emerging markets in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This brief presents the experience and lessons learned from two different market systems development (MSD) programs that implemented gender audits as part of a broader strategy to advance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment with partner renewable energy companies.
The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the workforce participation and career ambition of women and other underrepresented groups is well documented across many sectors, but there is limited evidence from the international development sector. This research explores the impact of COVID-19 on the talent pipeline of MSD programs.
The brief explores the perspectives of experienced recruiters and program managers who work with medium and large contractors and international NGOs on the unintended impact of key personnel criteria with respect to the diversity of candidates they put forward for senior leadership positions.
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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.