We provide long term support to programmes to help programme staff to develop and manage interventions as well as providing a regular external challenge function to improve delivery.
FEGO
Swisscontact / Sida, Kosovo
Springfield is supporting Swisscontact to deliver the Sida-funded Fostering Employment and Growth Opportunities (FEGO) programme in Kosovo. FEGO is tasked to identify and deliver transformational change across a range of key sectors including rural tourism, apparel and furniture. Springfield has been providing strategic guidance and capacity building during inception and will continue to provide support and mentoring to intervention and management teams during implementation.
CASA
Swisscontact / NIRAS
Springfield were asked to provide inputs to the Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme. CASA is a five year programme, started in 2019 and funded by FCDO. It seeks to change how investors, donors and governments view, and invest in, agribusinesses that work with smallholder supply chains. It does this by: demonstrating commercial viability of agribusinesses that work with smallholder supply chains and attracting more investment; deepening smallholder impact of existing investments; enabling poor smallholder farmers to engage with, and trade in, commercial markets; and researching and communicating the case for successful engagement with smallholder-linked agribusiness. CASA is delivering interventions with partners in Malawi (aquaculture and poultry), Uganda (sesame and beans) and Nepal (dairy and vegetables). These interventions aim to improve smallholder commercialisation in these six value chains. Springfield are providing strategic investment facilitation services and guidance to CASA in each intervention area. We are working with intervention partners to facilitate their readiness to seek and use investments to improve and grow their businesses.
SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing
BOTNAR Fondation
Springfield (in partnership with Swisscontact) has been awarded a two year assignment through Fondation Botnar, in Basel which focuses on the work of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No 3 (good health and wellbeing). The purpose of the assignment is to identify and deliver solutions that will address the structural constraints to scaling innovation. Jon Burns (Director at Springfield) will be leading the assignment and will be advising and supporting the SDG3 working group which will oversee the process. The work will involve: research on recent and existing initiatives to scale innovation in national health, and other, systems; an investigation of, and advice to, existing SDG3 initiatives to scale innovation, “deep dive” exercises on existing health and wellbeing programmes in four countries; innovation mapping exercises in six countries; and the development, production, and wide circulation, of a guideline on good practice, which we hope will be endorsed by the WHO.
Rural SME Development
SDC, Georgia
The Rural SME Development Project in Georgia is a four year CHF 4.5m project funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The overall goal is to improve employment and income opportunities in rural areas by enhancing rural SMEs performance, competitiveness and access to finance. As professionalisation, investments and innovation is low in rural areas, the project aims at deepening and widening the availability of adequate and effective Business Support Services in rural areas to improve the SME’s operations and management. As flagship for new working relationships with Swisscontact, the Springfield Centre is, together with Mercy Corps, part of the implementing consortium led by Swisscontact and provides technical and thematic support in systems approach, access to finance and business support services to the team and strategy inputs to ensure the quality of the interventions and the programme overall.
Innovating in the Housing Labour Market for Low-Income Households
Habitat for Humanity International, Mexico and Peru
Springfield provided mentoring support to two regional offices of Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Centre for Innovation in Shelter (TCIS) to re-visit and deepen their analysis of construction labour constraints and opportunities. This included reviewing analysis undertaken to date on root causes of underperformance in the wider low – income housing market system, guidance on how to expand the team’s understanding of their market systems, portfolio reviews of existing low income housing interventions, and prioritization of further areas for intervention.
Analysis and modelling of climate smart service delivery models
SNV, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
Contracted through SNV’s COVID-19 Response and Resilience Initiative for Food Value Chains in Africa (CORE) programme, Springfield is supporting SNV teams in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to assess experience, capture lessons, and strengthen their programmatic support to climate smart service providers across the region. The assignment entails an extensive programme of service delivery model (SDM) analyses that seeks to explore the nature of model resilience in terms of business viability, ecosystem functionality, and sustainability of climate smart outcomes. The work will culminate in the modelling and definition of a set of sustainable, climate smart agriculture service delivery model ‘archetypes’ to support a diverse array of service providers across the region to strengthen and render more resilient the climate smart services they provide to smallholder farmers and producers.
LIWAY – Livelihood Improvement for Women and Youth
Sida, Ethiopia
The Springfield Centre is providing on-going technical support to the market systems development programme improving livelihoods of urban women and youth in Ethiopia. Services include support on diagnosis, management, measurement, facilitation and intervention design, in addition to learning support to ensure that the impact of the programme, internally and externally, is maximised.
Market Development Facility
DFAT Australia, Indopacific
Through our partner, Swisscontact, Springfield provides the Senior Advisor to the Market Development Facility, responsible for its overall technical direction, quality control and capacity development. MDF promotes sustainable economic growth and development, through jobs and higher incomes for women and men, in its partner countries, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The programme connects individuals, businesses and governments with each other, and with domestic and international markets. It catalyses investment, innovation, partnerships and coordination in manufacturing, services and agricultural sectors.
KMT – Kenya Markets Trust
DFID & Gatsby Africa, Kenya
Kenya Markets Trust has the objective of stimulating large scale, sustainable change in Kenyan markets including livestock and agricultural input sectors and in non-urban water supply. Springfield acted as advisers to KMT’s management and board, assisting to develop and periodically review sector strategies, assess the progress of its portfolio of interventions, and strengthening its monitoring and evaluation system.
SuNMaP2
DFID/Malaria Consortium, Nigeria
Springfield is a core partner in this programme supporting national and state-level partners to identify and develop more effective and sustainable strategies for malaria control in Nigeria. Springfield experts are providing strategic leadership, oversight and technical support to efforts to strengthen private sector supply and delivery of key malaria control commodities (including bednets, ACTs and mRDTs). Support has focused to-date on commodity market analyses, intervention strategy and tactic formulation and planning, and partnership prioritisation and establishment. The focus across SuNMaP2 is on sustainability and embedding capacity in local public and private partners to continue to deliver quality malaria control services.
ENABLE
DFID, Nigeria
Across two phases, Springfield co-implemented this innovative £17m programme for DFID which is taking a market systems approach to business environment reform. Springfield’s role varied over time and encompassed the whole of the programme’s areas of work. Support was provided for monitoring and results measurement, technical support to intervention development and portfolio management, and capturing of learning. Springfield also seconded staff to the programme long-term to ensure effective delivery.
AIP PRISMA
DFAT Australia, Indonesia
The Springfield Centre is part of the Strategic Review Panel, an independent advisory group that advises the DFAT on the performance and strategic orientation of AIP-PRISMA. PRISMA provides comprehensive and sustainable solutions for the prosperity of smallholder farming households in Indonesia. The programme works with the private and public sector to help spur growth along the value chain by reducing constraints and barriers to farmer productivity, performance and market access. PRISMA works in a range of commodity sectors, and in supporting markets such as financial services, ICT, irrigation, and crop protection and soil treatment.
PROPCOM/PrOpCom Maikarfi
DFID, Nigeria
Springfield was contracted to provide technical backstopping services to this agricultural market development programme across several years. This support took many forms including direct technical advisory services to the team leader, long-term project placements of key staff to build capacity, internal programme reviews and critical assessments, and specialist support around measurement and research including the writing of case studies. Springfield were instrumental in the turnaround of the programme between the two phases of PrOpCom resulting in significant and sustainable increases in impact.
Private Sector Development Portfolio
SDC, South and West Serbia
Provision of on-going advisory support to SDC’s private sector development portfolio. The mandate includes both portfolio strategy and management advice to SDC as donor, alongside implementation strategy and tactical advice and support to the two programme implementers in South and South-West Serbia. The portfolio has successfully adopted the market systems development approach and, uniquely, works through two regional development agencies with whom Springfield works closely to build their capacity through a combination of strategic, operational and training related inputs. Both programmes has been regarded as two of SDC’s flagship initiatives in the Balkans region.
Strengthening Market Development Capacities
SDC, South Caucasus
Springfield provided long-term support to the development and implementation of SDC’s ‘Economic Development and Employment’ programming across the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). Support focused on market development capacity strengthening and oversight and included specific technical advisory support to eight individual programmes across the region and facilitation of regional learning activities and events. Springfield provided strategic advice to SDC’s programme managers in each country and at regional level as well as programme-level advice including to the Georgia ‘Alliances’ programme widely regarded as a flagship initiative both by SDC and its implementing agency, Mercy Corps.
SAMARTH
DFID, Nepal
Springfield was contracted to provide technical backstopping services to this agricultural market development programme across several years. This support took many forms including direct technical advisory services to the team leader, long-term project placements of key staff to build capacity, internal programme reviews and critical assessments, and specialist support around measurement and research including the writing of case studies. Springfield were instrumental in the turnaround of the programme between the two phases of PrOpCom resulting in significant and sustainable increases in impact.