
Market Systems Development (MSD) Briefs
This three-part series on MSD fundamentals presents key components and tactics (#1), MSD litmus test questions (#2), and common myths surrounding the approach (#3).
This three-part series on MSD fundamentals presents key components and tactics (#1), MSD litmus test questions (#2), and common myths surrounding the approach (#3).
Cette note synthétise les composantes et les tactiques propres à l’approche de développement des systèmes de marché. La note fait partie d’une série en trois parties sur les fondamentaux du MSD.
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.
This outcome harvest (OH) detected, analyzed, and substantiated 12 systemic outcomes related to the work of the USAID-funded Rice and Diversified Crops (RDC) Activity.
This case study forms part of a series of analyses of RisiAlbania’s market systems interventions in Albania’s ICT, tourism and agricultural sectors. It focuses on Risi’s efforts to take advantage of emerging changes in the market for information security services.
This brief is designed to equip private sector (PSD) and market systems development (MSD) practitioners with practical and actionable guidance to optimize outreach and engagement and minimize unintentional exclusion in the development sector’s move to the use of more digital technology.
The concept of disability inclusion is still new to most market systems development (MSD) programs and practitioners. This series of three papers, commissioned by Elan in the DRC, aims to increase the understanding and applicability of disability inclusion in MSD and to disseminate practical tools, frameworks and guidance.
This report features insights from an industry survey into gendered differences in the recruitment and retention of Team Leaders (TL) and Chief of Party (CoPs) in market systems (MSD) and private sector development (PSD) programs.
This brief paper describes an effort to build a set of basic and easily used tools for monitoring system dynamics or system health.
This case study adds new insights into existing guidance on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in market systems development (MSD) programming and provides lessons learned from the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Rural Economic Development (AIP-Rural) experience.
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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.