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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

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

Article Global MSD Guidance

Influencing Government: five top tips

Many of us working on market systems interventions have at some point struggled to influence government. At ENABLE2, a business…

Kevin Seely14/12/2017

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

Case Study Europe Facilitation Tourism

Making the most of Serbia’s tourism: The school calendar and the political economy for change

The Springfield Centre, October 2016 This learning case highlights how RDA Zlatibor, financed by SDC, applied a market systems approach…

Springfield Centre01/10/2016

Case Study Eastern & Southern Africa Land MSD in New Sectors

Scoping Report: Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) in Ethiopia

DFID, April 2012 This scoping report serves as the basis for the new DFID LIFT programme currently being tendered. It…

Springfield Centre20/04/2012

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