Members
Nabanita Sen Bekkers
Nabanita Sen Bekkers has been working in private sector development and results measurement for over 15 years. She played a vital role in setting up the results measurement systems in Katalyst Bangladesh, Trademark East Africa, MSME Cambodia, and M4C in Bangladesh, amongst others. In this role, she also provided technical input to designing and implementing interventions that would create systemic and sustainable change. Nabanita is also supporting the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development with its work in results measurement. She has authored several technical papers on implementing the Standard for results measurement and also co-authored the DCED Reader on measuring private sector development in 2012. Nabanita's contributions and fields of interest are in results measurement, pro-poor growth strategies, and combining market-led development with other systemic development approaches.
Phitcha Wanitphon
Phitcha has over 25 years of experience in the private sector and PSD. His consulting work builds on a strong foundation of programme implementation and management. Prior to entering consulting, Phitcha was Deputy Director for the GIZ Thai-German Programme for Enterprise Development. Since becoming an independent consultant in 2011, Phitcha has established a reputation as a highly effective technical adviser. Based in Bangkok, he focuses on private sector development and results measurement as a trainer, technical consultant and auditor. Phitcha is a certified auditor for the DCED Standard on Results Measurement and has helped a wide variety of organisations improve their monitoring, better use information in decision making and report more credibly to their stakeholders.
Aly Miehlbradt
Alexandra Miehlbradt (Aly) has worked in private sector development for over 25 years as an implementer, consultant, researcher and trainer. She has been involved in market systems development since the approach emerged in the early 2000s and has made important contributions to both theory and practice, particularly related to business service markets, inclusion, results measurement and adaptive management. Aly is a leader in the global effort to improve monitoring and results measurement and the effective use of information in PSD. She has helped a wide-variety of organizations develop strategies, design interventions, monitor results and integrate lessons into program improvements. Aly has written a variety of widely used publications on market systems development and on results measurement with an emphasis on adaptive management. Aly is known for her client-centered technical assistance, backstopping, design, documentation, review and strategic advisory services, as well as effective knowledge management, training and facilitation. She opened Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd in 2008 building on 10 previous years of independent consulting.
Harald Bekkers
Harald Bekkers has close to 20 years of experience in engaging the private sector for development outcomes, as an academic and as a development professional. Harald graduated from Wageningen University and Research in 1997. After completing a Ph.D. at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research on the role of business development services in India in 2005, he joined the Katalyst Market Systems Development (MSD) program in Bangladesh. In 2008 Harald started his own consultancy business with a focus on strategy and design, management and HRD, and results measurement. In 2011 Harald helped launch the Market Development Facility (MDF) and, as the Team Leader, led its expansion into a unique multi-country Facility, active in five countries in Asia and the Pacific. In 2018 Harald returned to consulting. Harald is interested in harnessing the energy of the private sector and commercial finance to achieve development outcomes in relation to poverty and inclusion, women’s economic empowerment, youth employment, nutrition, urbanization and climate change. He enjoys making MSD work in unconventional markets.
Mujaddid (Muja) Mohsin
Sustainable and inclusive private sector interventions are Muja’s specialty and he has worked on the ground with program teams and partners across Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific. A results measurement specialist turned implementer, Muja can quickly visualize opportunities within partnerships, sectors, and countries and he brings his trademark creativity to strategies and solutions for economic growth.
Curious and approachable, we can drop Muja in the middle of ‘anywhere’ and he will ask the right questions, meet the right people and come away with everything needed to develop smart, effective strategies. He will also find and connect with the right partners. Most importantly, he very quickly finds the best local food.
These days Muja calls Fiji home and makes the rest of us jealous as he grows vanilla and enjoys Pacific hospitality on a daily basis. He balances out the love of history books with comics and watching cartoons with Kaiju, Kira, and Cole, his beloved canine friends.
David Swete Kelly
David Swete Kelly provides high quality professional design, monitoring and evaluation services for development programs in Asia and the Pacific that are associated with agricultural market systems in particular, and community and rural development more broadly. David has provided services for bilateral and multi-lateral development agencies for twenty-nine years and worked in agriculture and agribusiness for more than 42 years. He specialises in the design and evaluation of agriculture and agri-business initiatives. This has included the monitoring, review and evaluation of development programs across 33 countries.
Marshall Bear
Marshall Bear has been a thought leader in the field of private sector development as it evolved from its focus on firms alone to firms in wider systems. He articulated and researched the business service development (BDS) approach for USAID (DAI/MBP project 1998-1999) and based on that research joined with the Springfield Centre/UK in 2000 to co-design and teach the first systems-oriented – BDS markets -- peer training program. The BDS approach evolved, through experience, into the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach to better understand the nexus between firms in wider systems and how they could better influence each other to advance more inclusive growth. This thinking ended the false dichotomy between non-financial and financial services within the enterprise development sector. The Springfield Centre threw its BDS markets course in the dustbin and created from scratch along with Marshall its Making Markets Work training program (2005) which continues to the present day.
Marshall has worked with many different organizations and projects in applying the MSD approach through staff training, project planning, using the facilitator’s toolkit, learning exercises, and documenting experience through case study research. He’s most proud of his ability to ensure ownership of ideas and actions stays with local teams at the end of an assignment.
Fouzia Nasreen
Fouzia Nasreen has around 20 years of experience in the field of market systems development (MSD) in agriculture sectors. From 2004 to 2011, Fouzia held key management positions at the Katalyst program in Bangladesh. She then led the project Making Markets Work for the Chars (M4C) from 2011 to 2017 that focused on geographically vulnerable locations of Bangladesh. Since 2017, Fouzia has worked as Technical Advisor supporting on project start-up, MSD strategy development, integration of gender and social inclusion, staff capacity building initiatives as well as on developing knowledge products for various projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Rwanda, Uganda, Kosovo and Macedonia. Fouzia’s core strength lies in her practical knowledge and hands-on experience of MSD analysis, design and implementation. Her key areas of interest include supporting and building project teams to apply MSD and on practical approaches to achieve inclusion through MSD strategies.