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  • This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your market development programming (covering market systems development and other private sector development approaches). If you feel that an important resource is missing, please let us know.

    Key Resources

    PIN (2024) Guide: Improving Employment Through Market Driven Vocational Education And Training (PDF, 12.54 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This good practice guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on engaging the private sector to ensure that Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes sustainably increase access to productive and fulfilling employment opportunities.

    PIN (2024) Guide: Improving Employment Through Market Driven Vocational Education And Training  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2020) SME Cookbook (ZIP, 18.5 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guidebook should serve as a reference for support and measurement of small enterprises. It provides a guidance for planning and implementation of most typical activities (training, small grants, assessments, etc.), and include several practical tools.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Templates
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    PIN (2019) IndiKit: Guidance on Market Development Indicators (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This website provides guidance on the use of practical indicators for market development interventions.

    PIN (2019) IndiKit: Guidance on Market Development Indicators - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Examples of PIN's Interventions

    PIN (2024) LISEC Green Jobs (PDF, 915.38 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Example on a green jobs initiative in the leather sector in Ethiopia

    PIN (2024) LISEC Green Jobs - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa
    Resource type: Project Design Examples, Innovations, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2018) INSPIRED: Market Systems Development (Issue 4) (PDF, 8.16 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource features practical project examples and lessons from PINs market systems development programming across different countries.

    PIN (2018) INSPIRED: Market Systems Development (Issue 4) - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2018) The State Of The Labour Market In Mosul, key findings from a labour market assessment (PDF, 370.78 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource is a summary of a labour market assessment conducted by PIN in East and West Mosul in November 2018, it provides an overview of the main findings and recomendations from the assessment, and includes a link to the full report.

    PIN (2018) The State Of The Labour Market In Mosul, key findings from a labour market assessment  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Middle East
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Market Assessments

    PIN (2018) Good Practice Guide: Improving Small Producers' Access to Profitable Markets (PDF, 14.95 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to assist poor producers to sell their products in more profitable markets through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems development approach.

    PIN (2018) Good Practice Guide: Improving Small Producers' Access to Profitable Markets - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists, Templates
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2018) Good Practice Guide: Increasing Poor People's Demand for Essential Products and Services (PDF, 9.37 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s demand for products and services that can improve their lives through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems approach.

    PIN (2018) Good Practice Guide: Increasing Poor People's Demand for Essential Products and Services - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2018) Good Practice Guide: Enabling Poor People's Access to Essential Products and Services (PDF, 8.66 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s access to products and services that can improve their lives, through effective engagement of the private sector.

    PIN (2018) Good Practice Guide: Enabling Poor People's Access to Essential Products and Services - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Labour Market Assessments and Employment

    ILO (2015) Value Chain Development for Decent Work (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide provides practical guidance on how to support value chain development to create 'decent work' employment opportunities and improve working conditions in targeted sectors, it covers initial assessments, sector selection, implementation and monitoring.

    ILO (2015) Value Chain Development for Decent Work - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    Mercy Corps, IRC (2016) Labour Market Analysis in Humanitarian Contexts: Practitioner's Guide (PDF, 745.85 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide aims to help humanitarians conduct better labour market analyses (LMA) to inform the design and delivery of livelihoods and market strengthening programmes in emergency and post-crisis settings.

    Mercy Corps, IRC (2016) Labour Market Analysis in Humanitarian Contexts: Practitioner's Guide - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    IRC (2017) Example of a labour market assessment in humanitarian context (MENA) (PDF, 2.94 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This report provides an example of a labour market assessment conducted in Mosul Iraq, it can be useful when thinking about how to design an LMA in a recovery context, included in Annex are the data collection tools/questionaires that were used.

    IRC (2017) Example of a labour market assessment in humanitarian context (MENA) - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Middle East
    Resource type: Project Design Examples
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Facilitation Approaches

    USAID FTF Market Systems & Partnership’s (MSP) (2024) - Market System Analysis (MSA) Toolkit (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    .. helping practitioners apply a ‘good enough’ approach to undertake an MSA efficiently in a way that prioritises systemic intervention areas and ongoing iteration and learning as a programme evolves. This toolkit includes a number of tools that have hitherto been unpublished, remaining on organisational cloud storage systems unavailable to the wider MSD community.

    URL
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Templates
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    BEAM EXCHANGE (2023) Greening the MSD approach in agricultural programmes (PDF, 1.37 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    How to achieve environmental goals in agricultural MSD programmes

    BEAM EXCHANGE (2023) Greening the MSD approach in agricultural programmes - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PAP (2021) Making Market Systems Work for the Poor: Experience inspired by Alan Gibson (PDF, 4.07 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Reflection and practical examples of using MSD/M4P approach. It contains contribution of various actors, who had opportunity to collaborate with Alan Gibson, the MSD/M4P author.

    PAP (2021) Making Market Systems Work for the Poor: Experience inspired by Alan Gibson - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
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    Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships

    PIN (2024) Learning brief Work Based Learning - ETH LISEC (PDF, 10.23 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    A short learning brief good for positioning PIN with donors on its work on job creation via market driven skills development and provate sector engagement.

    PIN (2024) Learning brief Work Based Learning - ETH LISEC - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Communication Materials
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PAP (2021) Making Market Systems Work for the Poor: Experience inspired by Alan Gibson (PDF, 4.07 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Reflection and practical examples of using MSD/M4P approach. It contains contribution of various actors, who had opportunity to collaborate with Alan Gibson, the MSD/M4P author.

    PAP (2021) Making Market Systems Work for the Poor: Experience inspired by Alan Gibson - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    PIN (2020) Analysis of the Impact Investment Environment (PDF, 903.32 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    A synthesis of resources helping to understand the field of Impact Investment from the perspective of an NGO.

    PIN (2020) Analysis of the Impact Investment Environment - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Innovations
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Value Chain Development

    DCED (2019) Online resource hub and database for guidance on MSD, PSD, and the DCED Standard (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This website has an extensive array of resources (articles, evidence papers, guides etc) related to private sector development, including resources on MSD, women’s economic empowerment, engaging the private sector in fragile contexts, and on results measurement.

    DCED (2019) Online resource hub and database for guidance on MSD, PSD, and the DCED Standard - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2018) Good Practice Guide: Improving Small Producers' Access to Profitable Markets (PDF, 14.95 MB)
    View

    When can it be useful?
    This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to assist poor producers to sell their products in more profitable markets through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems development approach.

    PIN (2018) Good Practice Guide: Improving Small Producers' Access to Profitable Markets - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists, Templates
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    Care/BFP/SABM (2016) Growing Together: Guideline on strengthening micro-enterprises in value chains (PDF, 5.09 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide provides guidance on how to integrate micro-enterprises into value chains to support positive social impacts, it can be useful when working with larger companies to strengthen their linkages and business relations with micro-enterprises.

    Care/BFP/SABM (2016) Growing Together: Guideline on strengthening micro-enterprises in value chains - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    Monitoring and Evaluation of MSD

    PIN (2023) - Impact Evaluation Livelihood Programme Northeast Syria (NES) (PDF, 1.4 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    The document gives an overview of the key findings of this impact study in Northeast Syria, which focuses on the relevance, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the following four intervention categories : 1. TVET + Apprenticeship + Business Training + Small Business Grants 2. Small Business Grants 3. TVET + Business Trainings 4. TVET + Business Training

    PIN (2023) - Impact Evaluation Livelihood Programme Northeast Syria (NES) - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    BEAM EXCHANGE (2023) Greening the MSD approach in agricultural programmes (PDF, 1.37 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    How to achieve environmental goals in agricultural MSD programmes

    BEAM EXCHANGE (2023) Greening the MSD approach in agricultural programmes - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2020) SME Cookbook (ZIP, 18.5 MB)
    View

    When can it be useful?
    This guidebook should serve as a reference for support and measurement of small enterprises. It provides a guidance for planning and implementation of most typical activities (training, small grants, assessments, etc.), and include several practical tools.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Templates
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
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    Women's Economic Empowerment

    DCED (2019) Online resource hub and database for guidance on MSD, PSD, and the DCED Standard (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This website has an extensive array of resources (articles, evidence papers, guides etc) related to private sector development, including resources on MSD, women’s economic empowerment, engaging the private sector in fragile contexts, and on results measurement.

    DCED (2019) Online resource hub and database for guidance on MSD, PSD, and the DCED Standard - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    BEAM Exchange (2016) The Women’s Empowerment and Markets Systems (WEAMS) Framework (PDF, 706.46 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This document provides practical tools and guidance on supporting women’s empowerment in market systems development projects.

    BEAM Exchange (2016) The Women’s Empowerment and Markets Systems (WEAMS) Framework - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    BEAM Exchange - Wide range of resources on Women's Economic Empowerment (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This website page includes a range of resources (guides, publication, case studies, tools) on the topic of women's economic empowerment in market systems projects.

    BEAM Exchange - Wide range of resources on Women's Economic Empowerment  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports, E-Learning and Webinars
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Markets in Emergency / Recovery Contexts

    DCED (2018) Database of resources on private sector development in conflict/fragile environments  (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This website has an extensive array of resources (articles, evidence papers, guides etc) related to private sector development in fragile environments, it can be useful when reviewing evidence and research on which approaches work.

    DCED (2018) Database of resources on private sector development in conflict/fragile environments  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Strategies, Toolkits & Manuals, Innovations, Evaluation & Research Reports, Training Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    Mercy Corps (2018) Beyond Cash: Making Markets Work in Crisis (PDF, 1.59 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource provides up to date guidance and lessons on market-based programming in relief and recovery contexts.

    Mercy Corps (2018) Beyond Cash: Making Markets Work in Crisis - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    CaLP (2018) A Tip Sheet: Market Support Interventions in Humanitarian Contexts (PDF, 2.68 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource provides practical tips and examples on market support programming in humanitarian contexts.

    CaLP (2018) A Tip Sheet: Market Support Interventions in Humanitarian Contexts  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Green Market Approaches

    DCED (2022) Green PSD Navigator (PDF, 1.04 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Overview of Green Growth Approaches for Private Sector Development

    DCED (2022) Green PSD Navigator - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    BEAM EXCHANGE (2023) Greening the MSD approach in agricultural programmes (PDF, 1.37 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    How to achieve environmental goals in agricultural MSD programmes

    BEAM EXCHANGE (2023) Greening the MSD approach in agricultural programmes - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    BEAM EXCHANGE (2023) Greening MSD examples (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    Case studies for greening MSD approach

    BEAM EXCHANGE (2023) Greening MSD examples - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Project Design Examples
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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