Beware the “systemsplainer”
Kate Fogelberg & Rachel Shah We’re all familiar with the term mansplaining. We’ve either done it, had it done to…
Kate Fogelberg11/02/2020
Make Earth Great Again: Emerging experience applying MSD to climate change
This month saw Greta Thunberg receive both TIME magazine’s award for Person of the Year and a hefty dose of…
Kate Fogelberg18/12/2019
Inclusive Systems Development Through the Looking Glass
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where…
Kate Fogelberg16/07/2019
A Tale of Two Cities: Applying market systems development in urban contexts
A Tale of Two Cities: Applying market systems development in urban contexts “It was the best of times; it was…
Kate Fogelberg10/04/2019
Viability Gap Funding for Private Water Operators in Rural Cambodia
Investing in Infrastructure (3i) is a 5-year, Australian-funded programme working in the rural water and electricity markets in Cambodia. The…
Kate Fogelberg14/12/2018
When worlds collide: what market systems programmes can learn from ultramarathoners
Sometimes our worlds collide. This spring, professionally, I am in the midst of guiding a team through developing a new…
Kate Fogelberg02/03/2018
Smartwashing Development
First it was sustainability. Then it was scale. Now it’s smart. My frustration with over-loved and under-defined S-words in development…
Kate Fogelberg07/04/2017
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems
By Kate Fogelberg Amongst all of the other news stories about the American election, I wouldn’t be too surprised if…
Kate Fogelberg06/02/2017
Making Markets Work for the Poo-er: Systemic Sanitation Problems Require Systemic Sanitation Solutions
By Kate Fogelberg I am fresh off the plane from Springfield’s semi-annual “Making Markets Work” (M4P) training programme. I first…
Kate Fogelberg13/01/2017
WASHing their hands of the sustainability question: ICAI’s DFID WASH Review
DFID is now the largest donor for basic WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) services in low-income countries, investing over £700m…
Kate Fogelberg27/07/2016