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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
When can it be useful?
This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to improving people’s livelihoods and protecting the natural environment.

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.

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.

Examples of PIN's Interventions
When can it be useful?
This video provides an overview of a livestock market development project implemented by PIN and partners in Cambodia, and includes an overview of the constraints the project was aimed at addressing and how these were being addressed.

When can it be useful?
This resource features practical project examples and lessons from PINs market systems development programming across different countries.

When can it be useful?
This website includes a range of resources on market systems development with a particular focus on market-based approaches and behaviour change.

Market Assessments
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.

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.

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.

Labour Market Assessments and Employment
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.

When can it be useful?
This is a practical example of a labour market assessment report from an assessment conducted by PIN in Mosul Iraq to identify employment opportunities (with a specific focus on women and people with disabilities), it can be useful when planning or conducting a labour market assessment in a recovery context, the assessment tools are included in Annex.

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.

Facilitation Approaches
When can it be useful?
This website page has an extensive range of resources (guides, publications, tools, case studies) on the topic of market facilitation used in market systems development projects.

When can it be useful?
This brief learning note summarises lessons learned on facilitation tactics from ILO market system projects, it includes a link to an online roleplaying game to test your facilitation skills.

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.

Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships
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.

When can it be useful?
This toolkit provides comprehensive guidance (including practical tools, templates and case studies) on how to effectively building strategic partnerships with the private sector, it can be particularly useful when working with larger companies, Tool 4 is a practical tool and checklist for a Due Diligence assessment of a potential private partner.

When can it be useful?
This document describes the key guiding principles that inform Hivos' partnerships and support to the private sector, it draws from the UN Global Compact's ten principles and covers important topics such as human rights, gender, labour, corruption and the environment.

Value Chain Development
When can it be useful?
This website provides guidance on the value chain development approach, ranging from introductory information to more detailed guidance, it can be useful when wanting to understand different concepts and terms.

Also available in: Spanish, French, Russian
When can it be useful?
This guide provides guidance on the value chain development approach as applied by the ILO (so with a specific focus on employment), it is shorter than most other guides (24 pages) and therefore can be a useful way to quickly review guidance on this topic.

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.

Monitoring and Evaluation of MSD
When can it be useful?
This website provides guidance on the use of practical indicators for market development interventions.

When can it be useful?
This learning note by Mercy Corps provides practical advice on how to integrate an adaptive management approach into your programming, covering organisational culture, people and skills, and tools and systems.

When can it be useful?
This briefing paper on the Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond framework provides implementers with an approach to manage and measure the extent to which new behaviours and practices introduced by a project are owned and spread across an industry by project partners themselves ('systemic change').

Women's Economic Empowerment
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.

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.

When can it be useful?
This document provides practical tools and guidance on supporting women’s empowerment in market systems development projects.

Markets in Emergency / Recovery Contexts
When can it be useful?
This Minimum Economic Recovery Standards are internationally recognized standards for building economic resilience for crisis-affected communities, they can be useful to review when designing and planning activities in humanitarian contexts.

Also available in: French, Spanish
When can it be useful?
This resource is a set of tools and guidance notes for front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate, and make use of market systems, it provides detailed guidance on each of the steps involved in market assessment.

When can it be useful?
This resource provides practical tips and examples on market support programming in humanitarian contexts.
