This brief highlights three evidenced based strategies for emerging leaders in international development interested in pursuing international leadership roles. It summarizes our recent study on
Despite significant investment, there’s a perceived shortage of qualified senior leaders in MSD. This study, with Mercy Corps’ support, explores barriers and enablers in transitioning MSD professionals to international senior roles.
In this entry of her “In Search for More Equitable Impact” blog series, Canopy’s Managing Partner Holly Krueger spoke with Karri Goeldner Byrne, a consultant with more than 25 years of experience in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations (FCAS), on what equitable impact looks like in a market systems development (MSD) program.
In collaboration with the BEAM Exchange, Senior Consultant Clara Garcia Parra developed a guide to help donors and practitioners design and implement impactful agricultural programmes that use the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach, and want to be intentional about achieving environmental goals.
Six months into her “In Search of More Equitable Impact” blog series, Holly Krueger explores what she has learned so far after connecting with experts from leading Implementing Partneres
In this entry of her “In Search of More Equitable Impact” series, Managing Partner Holly Krueger spoke with USAID FTF Transforming Market Systems Activity (TMS) Deputy Chief of Party, Dun Grover, about the crucial role their inception phase played in shaping how they think about inclusion.
In this entry of “In Search of More Equitable Impact,” Managing Partner Holly Krueger spoke with Ajla Vilogorac, Director of Research, Impact Measurement and Inclusion at Market Development Facility (MDF), about how she is authentically mainstreaming GEDSI across the program.
In this first installment of “In Search of More Equitable Impact” series, Holly Kreuger spoke with John Rachkara, Deputy Chief of Party, and Anuoluwapo Fashola (Anu), Gender Advisor for the USAID Feed the Future Rural Resilience Activity (RRA), about how they are facilitating equitable economic growth in a complex environment.
Projects that follow the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach often have inception phases that include establishing initial partnerships to refine engagement strategies. For RECONOMY, however, this phase entailed much more. This case study explores the knowledge and experience gained during the project’s 2+ year inception.
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).
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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.