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SDGs at 10: Sustainable Development Goals or Some Decorative Graphics?

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) just turned ten. In human terms, that's old enough to know better. In development terms,…

Springfield Centre20/05/2026

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Signed, Sealed and (Still Not) Delivered

When Aid Ambition Meets Political Reality In 1970, the world’s richest countries gathered under the banner of the United Nations…

Springfield Centre14/05/2026

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Agenda for Change Systems Strengthening Research: WaterSHED Case Study

The Agenda for Change Global Hub supports its members to deliver systems change and document and share their experiences in…

Kate Fogelberg14/12/2021

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Final Independent Evaluation of the ILO Lab, Phase II

The ‘Market Systems Development for Decent Work’ project, known as the Lab, is a global project implemented by the International…

Rachel Shah04/12/2020

Global Guidance Measuring Systemic Change Paper

A Pragmatic Approach to Measuring System Change

Joint Authored by Alexandra Miehlbradt, Rachel Shah, Hans Posthumus and Adam Kessler In recent years, growing recognition of the need…

Springfield Centre14/10/2020

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A Pragmatic Approach to Assessing System Change

Authored by: Hans Posthumus, Rachel Shah, Alexandra Miehlbradt, Adam Kessler Few topics inspire as much confusion and debate as systemic…

Rachel Shah01/05/2020

Global Guidance Measuring Sustainability

How can we fix the biggest sustainability problem facing development?

How often do you hear the word “sustainability”? In development, we almost all recognise sustainability as a critical component of…

Rachel Shah13/06/2019

Global Guidance MSD Guidance Paper

Unpacking incentives and capacities: factors affecting actor behaviour change

The goal of Market Systems Development (MSD) programmes is to change systems so that they work better for poor, or…

Jake Lomax16/10/2018

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Springfield Working Paper Series #5: A Reality Check for Rapid Immersion in Development Research

In search of rigour, ethics, and relevance One of the most damning critiques of the development industry is that it…

Rachel Shah13/04/2018

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