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Articles on Market Systems Development (MSD), sustainable development, and global development insights, research, and practical guidance.

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Market systems development in education? An experimental case from Nigeria ArticleEducationMSD in New SectorsWestern, Northern & Central Africa

Market systems development in education? An experimental case from Nigeria

Ben Taylor, Sarah Barlow & Roger Cunningham Originally published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance Vol. 27 No. 1, March 2016 Education…
Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor01/03/2016
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Turning tides: a systemic approach to intervention in the water sector ArticleEastern & Southern AfricaMSD in New SectorsWater & Sanitation

Turning tides: a systemic approach to intervention in the water sector

Ryan Bourque and Fiona Mitchell Originally published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance Vol. 27 No. 1, March 2016 Reliable access to…
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Springfield Centre01/03/2016
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Fixes, failures, and facilitation: diagnosing problems and opportunities in health intervention ArticleEastern & Southern AfricaHealth & Social ServicesMSD in New Sectors

Fixes, failures, and facilitation: diagnosing problems and opportunities in health intervention

Jake Lomax Originally published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance Vol. 27 No. 1, March 2016 This paper seeks to describe two…
Jake Lomax
Jake Lomax01/03/2016
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New approaches to old problems: systemic change as a unifying objective ArticleGlobalMSD in New Sectors

New approaches to old problems: systemic change as a unifying objective

Ben Taylor and Jason Donovan Originally published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance Vol. 27 No. 1, March 2016 Systemic approaches to…
Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor01/03/2016
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Development’s New Sickness – ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ ArticleGlobalResearch Guidance

Development’s New Sickness – ‘Cognitive Dissonance’

Ben Taylor Originally featured on businessfightspoverty.org Like British sportspeople and the overuse of acronyms, evidence-based policy and systemic change are…
Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor11/11/2013
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The Sustainability Drought: Failures and Potential Solutions in Water and Sanitation ArticleGlobalMSD in New SectorsWater & Sanitation

The Sustainability Drought: Failures and Potential Solutions in Water and Sanitation

Ben Taylor Originally featured on businessfightspoverty.org  People die without clean water. People get sick without effective sanitation - from which…
Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor23/10/2013
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Effectiveness, scale and sustainability in WASH programmes – a review ArticleGlobalMSD in New SectorsWater & Sanitation

Effectiveness, scale and sustainability in WASH programmes – a review

The Springfield Centre, October 2013 This paper proposes an analytical framework for assessing development in WASH through highlighting inadequacies in…
Springfield Centre
Springfield Centre20/10/2013
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Evidence-based policy and systemic change: conflicting trends? ArticleDevelopment EffectivenessGlobal

Evidence-based policy and systemic change: conflicting trends?

The Springfield Centre, July 2013 Two clear trends have emerged in development in recent years; evidence-based policy and systemic approaches.…
Springfield Centre
Springfield Centre20/07/2013
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Working with mass media to improve policy advocacy in Nigeria ArticleFacilitationMediaWestern, Northern & Central Africa

Working with mass media to improve policy advocacy in Nigeria

DFID, May 2013 Enable is a DFID funded programme applying market systems thinking to the challenge of improving the business…
Springfield Centre
Springfield Centre20/05/2013
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Discussion Paper: M4P and Women’s Economic Empowerment ArticleGenderGlobal

Discussion Paper: M4P and Women’s Economic Empowerment

SDC, January 2012 This discussion paper sought to ignite and kick start a process which would lead to developing tighter…
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Springfield Centre20/01/2012
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