Market Systems Development (MSD) to Reduce Poverty

Photo: Asian Development Bank / Abir Abdullah

Duration:
27/02–03/03/2023 | FULLY BOOKED – waiting list
8:30-12:00, 13:15-16:30

Teaching format:
Classroom

Course objective:
This course provides a basic introduction to the concepts and methods behind market systems development (MSD), an approach to understanding and overcoming the failure of systems to serve the needs of the poor. Contrary to traditional project approaches, in which implementing agencies provide or support services that go directly to the poor, an agency applying MSD acts as a facilitator to align key players and functions of a system to produce sustainable results. The approach was originally developed to analyse and strengthen market systems and private sector development — which will be the focus of the course. Today, the approach is also applied to systems with predominantly public sector activities, such as education systems.

Key topics:

Enabling an environment for private sector development
Strategic framework of the MSD approach
Analysing and understanding systems and system change
Sustainability and facilitation of system change
Monitoring and measurement of MSD interventions
Management of MSD interventions

ECTS points:
2

Examination:
The assignments will be distributed during the course, and due 2 weeks after the course completion

Course fee:
CHF 950

Lecturers:
Annick Vollmar, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
Paulo Rodrigues, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
Manuela Kälbling, Swisscontact
Jasmine Neve, NADEL (Coordination)

Registration starts 31 October 2022.

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