Research Archives - The Canopy Lab

Inclusion

Business Environment Reforms and the Care Economy: The Case of Childcare and Parental Leave Policies

Care economy is an integral part of Business Environment Reforms (BER). It is central to advance Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). This report highlights the link between women’s share of care work and their access to economic opportunities, and analyses how care policies can be promoted as part of business environment reforms.

Holly Lard Krueger April 3, 2025

Inclusion

Making It To The Top: Tips For Development Practitioners Pursuing International Leadership Roles

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

Holly Lard Krueger September 24, 2024

Inclusion

Catalyzing Careers: Enablers of Career Transitions for National Practitioners into International Leadership Roles

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.

Holly Lard Krueger June 21, 2024

Inclusion

Beyond Downloads, Views, and ‘Likes,’ How Do You Know Your Research Is Having an Impact?

This blog explores the ‘influence challenge’ many of us wrestle with through the lens of what we found trying to trace uptake by stakeholders of findings from a series of research initiatives conducted last year on the impact of COVID-19 on inclusion in the international development workforce.

Laura Kim October 27, 2023

Research

Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #3 on Keeping It Simple

In this third entry for Lab Notes, Senior Consultant Laura Kim chronicles how she learned how to keep things smart and simple, when it came to showcasing pre-COVID and post-COVID changes in international development practitioners’ desired levels of travel.

Laura Kim September 13, 2023

Market Systems Development

RECONOMY’s Inception Phase: Lessons on how to Navigate Complexity

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.

Clara García Parra March 14, 2023

ICT and Finance

Evidence and Learning on Economic Empowerment: A Review of WVA’s Global Portfolio

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).

Jessica Rust-Smith December 9, 2022

Impact Investing

Investing and Engaging in the Care Economy: Briefs for Gender-Smart Investors and Other Actors

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.

Holly Lard Krueger November 24, 2022

Research

Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #2 on Timelines

What can a timeline tell you? Senior Consultant Laura Kim makes the case for their versatility in the second entry of Lab Notes.

Laura Kim October 23, 2022

Inclusion

Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #1 on Divergent Stacked Bar Charts

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.

Laura Kim May 23, 2022

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Current Articles

Business Environment Reforms and the Care Economy: The Case of Childcare and Parental Leave Policies

Making It To The Top: Tips For Development Practitioners Pursuing International Leadership Roles

Catalyzing Careers: Enablers of Career Transitions for National Practitioners into International Leadership Roles

Beyond Downloads, Views, and ‘Likes,’ How Do You Know Your Research Is Having an Impact?

Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #3 on Keeping It Simple

RECONOMY’s Inception Phase: Lessons on how to Navigate Complexity

Evidence and Learning on Economic Empowerment: A Review of WVA’s Global Portfolio

Investing and Engaging in the Care Economy: Briefs for Gender-Smart Investors and Other Actors

Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #2 on Timelines

Canopy’s Lab Notes: Entry #1 on Divergent Stacked Bar Charts

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