Springfield Centre Training Programmes

In the last ten years our training programmes on the market development approach have been attended by over 800 people.

It is increasingly clear that the rationale and disciplines of the market development approach are relevant to the work of development agencies and governments across the spectrum of private sector development - in financial and business services, business environment, agriculture, rural livelihoods, infrastructure and factor markets.

Springfield's training programmes build on the learning from this diversity of experience and the belief that market development is a central challenge - and opportunity - in promoting inclusive and effective private sector development. How to make markets work for the poor should be a core focus for agencies and governments.

While many of our programmes have a distinctive regional or thematic focus, all are underpinned by a common objective of assisting senior personnel to make sense of market development in their own organisations. Typically programmes focus on: rationale and strategy; understanding market systems; sustainability; catalysing and measuring systemic change.