Can you use the MSD approach to respond to COVID-19?
Do you need a new approach to respond well to COVID-19 or can you use MSD to respond to COVID-19?…
Rachel Shah12/06/2020
A Systemic Response to COVID-19
Kate Fogelberg, Rob Hitchins, Rachel Shah In a crash, it is not the speed that kills you, it’s the sudden…
Kate Fogelberg11/06/2020
The Enter-Growth Programme: A Decade On
In market systems development programmes, is ‘sustainability’ a realistic project objective or just a baseless buzzword? One of the core…
Rachel Shah07/05/2020
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
A recently published paper - The antidote to systemic change frameworks: six practical steps to assess systemic change (and improve…
Rachel Shah11/04/2020
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
Systemic Change in the Sri Lankan Fisheries Sector
Market Development Facility (MDF) Sri Lanka commissioned research into the evolution of the Blue Swimming Crab (BSC) market in Northern…
Springfield Centre17/12/2019
Measuring things that don’t (yet) exist
Good practice in systems development encourages the use of early measurement in the place of heroic assumptions. In practice, this…
Rachel Shah16/12/2019
Partnering with the Public Sector to Improve Market Systems: Experiences and Lessons from AIP-Rural
This case study is part of the AIP-Rural Learning Series. Market system development (MSD) programs aim to make markets function…
Springfield Centre12/08/2019