Knowledge and learning
What are the foundations of the market systems development approach and how to apply it at different project stages?
Cross-cutting
Guide
Cross-border value chain development: A rough guide to market systems development for decent work
Guide
Value chain development for decent work
Brief
A systemic approach to creating more and better jobs
Think piece
Systemic change: Walking the talk?
Sector selection and market systems analysis
Guide
Market systems analysis for decent work: A user-friendly guide
Guide
Sector selection for decent work: Tips, tricks and tools
Guide
Guidelines for value chain selection: Integrating economic, environmental, social and institutional criteria
Implementation: Project strategy, intervention design and adaptive management
Brief
Starting strong: Getting inception right in projects using the MSD approach
Pocket-guide
A 10-question pocket guide to making MSD work for you
Brief
“How to” manage adaptively in value chain development projects
Think piece
The science in adaptive management
Executive summary
Business models for decent work
Guide
Action toolkit: Building back with better jobs
Brief
Doing more business and less aid: The journey of a market system development project in Afghanistan
Brief
Fail, recalibrate, adapt, achieve: how Yapasa used the market systems approach to create opportunities for Zambia's rural youth
Note
Market systems facilitation, how good are you?
Case study
Crafting Kuza: Towards a systemic approach to job creation for youth in Mombasa
Monitoring and results measurement
Guide
A rough guide to measuring job quality in market systems development: Operational guidance
Brief
“How to” measure job quality in value chain development projects
Methodology
Measuring productive employment: A "how to" note
Think piece
Fooled by randomisation: why RCTs might be the real ‘gold standard’ for private sector development
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Systems Change Initiative (SCI) for productive employment