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Case Study Facilitation Policy Western, Northern & Central Africa

Is a genuinely sustainable, locally-led, politically-smart approach to economic governance and Business Environment Reform possible?

This paper examines what it means to be genuinely sustainable, locally-led, and politically-smart, drawing on the successes and failures of the…

Springfield Centre04/01/2018

Article Facilitation Media Western, Northern & Central Africa

Community Journalism networks – voices from the village

Community Journalism networks as a method of enhancing news and programming on commercial radio in Africa Africa’s small private radio…

Springfield Centre14/12/2017

Case Study Facilitation Policy Western, Northern & Central Africa

National Assembly Business Environment Roundtables (NASSBER) – securing economic opportunity

In the past 2 years, the Nigerian economy has suffered from significant slump in the price of oil on the…

David Elliott15/11/2017

Article Global Media MSD Guidance

Few market systems programmes work with the media. Are we missing out?

If you work in a development programme, there is a high chance that the media can help you achieve your…

Kevin Seely27/07/2017

Article Eastern & Southern Africa Facilitation Media

Making Information Systems Work for the Poor: The case of media

The Springfield Centre, October 2016 This paper considers the importance of information and the constraints to its availability and appropriateness…

Springfield Centre01/10/2016

Article Entrepreneurship Global

Businesses behaving badly: why it matters, why it happens and what we do about it

In many markets we find ‘institutional biases’ - consistent patterns of behaviour among businesspeople, consumers or governments which affect how…

Kevin Seely30/09/2016

Blog Post

Review: Growing Prosperity vs Beyond the Pioneer

Introduction Working with the private sector in support of improved development outcomes is now widely accepted as a valid approach.…

Karen Smith13/04/2015

Blog Post

Why DFID’s proposed new Start Up! programme is bunkum and should be ditched

When a donor issues a proposal of dubious development worth, the usual practice of contractors is to keep schtum, hiding…

Alan Gibson17/02/2014

Article Facilitation Media Western, 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 Centre20/05/2013

Case Study Facilitation Policy Western, Northern & Central Africa

Working with BMOs to improve policy advocacy in Nigeria

DFID, January 2013 Enable is a DFID funded programme applying market systems thinking to the challenge of improving the business…

Springfield Centre20/01/2013

Business Environment

Is a genuinely sustainable, locally-led, politically-smart approach to economic governance and Business Environment Reform possible?

Community Journalism networks – voices from the village

National Assembly Business Environment Roundtables (NASSBER) – securing economic opportunity

Few market systems programmes work with the media. Are we missing out?

Making Information Systems Work for the Poor: The case of media

Businesses behaving badly: why it matters, why it happens and what we do about it

Review: Growing Prosperity vs Beyond the Pioneer

Why DFID’s proposed new Start Up! programme is bunkum and should be ditched

Working with mass media to improve policy advocacy in Nigeria

Working with BMOs to improve policy advocacy in Nigeria

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