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Market Facilitation Initiative Working Group
Pro-poor market development is an approach to poverty reduction that seeks to promote changes in market systems that will lead to sustained improvements in income, employment, and access to products and services for a large number of marginalized enterprises and households. One challenge of this approach is that, although a wide body of resources exists on conducting market research and program design for market development programs, there is far less information available on program implementation.
The Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI) Working Group helps close this gap in knowledge by advancing practical principles and tools that assist practitioners working in pro-poor market development to move from market assessments and program design to implementation. The group produces learning products based on MaFI's online discussions, webinars, and in-person meetings, and also seeks to influence the debate about rules and principles of international aid that hamper inclusive market development.
Learning Products
- MaFI-licious, an online, live annotated bibliography on current practices, tools and methods used in pro-poor market facilitation. This resource uses the Delicious platform, a popular bookmark service that allows people to share web-based resources. Only members can add and edit MaFI-licious but anyone can access its resources.
- Do Systemic Interventions Reach the Poorest of the Poor? (November 2010)
- Online Discussion Synthesis: Sustainable Livelihoods and Pro-Poor Market Development (October 2009)
- Conference Synthesis: State of the Practice in Market Facilitation (September 2008)
Get Involved
The facilitator for the Market Facilitation Initiative Working Group is Lucho Osorio. Working group members must be staff of SEEP Network institutional members.
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