Publications

Donor Brief: Guiding Programmes to Assess System Change

Visualising System Change

Conducting Sector Strategy Review Meetings

Accompanying Template (xlsx download):

Template for summarising system changes assessment findings

Operationalising System Change Assessment

Accompanying Templates (xlsx download):

Strategy table template

Helicopter lens assessment plan template

Intervention lens assessment plan template

The CRS Approach to Market Systems Development for Scale, Inclusion, Resilience, Environmental Stewardship and Social Cohesion, Catholic Relief Services (2023)

How to Monitor Interventions Effectively: Lessons from PRISMA’s intervention in the mungbean sector in Indonesia (2022)

Tackling Impact Assessment of Business Enabling Environment Interventions: A case study from GROW Liberia’s cocoa sector work (2022)

Hybrid market systems development to reinforce system resilience and climate preparedness (2022)

Private Sector Engagement Theory of Change, Key Metrics and Learning Agenda, Catholic Relief Services (2021)

Leveraging Markets in Housing for Scaling Up: Internal Desk Review, Catholic Relief Services (2021)

End of Program Impact Evaluation REACH Uganda Embassy of the Netherlands, Kampala (2021)

A Pragmatic Approach to Assessing System Change (2020)

• Overview 

• How to put it into practice

The story of MSD: achieving sustainable development at scale (2020)

Agricultural Interventions for Pacific Food and Nutrition Security. New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wellington (2019)

In Search of the Sweet Spot in Implementing MSD Programmes (2018)

• Part 1: Why and How Embracing Messiness is the Key to Success

• Part 2: Why Building the Plane While Flying it is the Only Approach That Works

• Part 3: Let Core Principles Guide the Artful Choice between ‘Proscriptive Orthodoxy’ and ‘Anything Goes’

• Part 4: Managing Messiness for Success

Promoting Systemic Change in Shallow Markets: Lessons from Phase One of the Market Development Facility (2018)

Building a Learning Culture – The case of the Market Development Facility in Fiji (2017)

Using Information on Results in Programme Management – The case of Samarth-NMDP in Nepal (2017)

Developing a Program Specific Monitoring and Results Measurement Manual (2015)

Measuring Attribution: a practical framework to select appropriate attribution methods, with cases from:

·      ALCP in Georgia

·      MDF in East Timor

·      Propcom Mai-Karfi in Nigeria

·      Samarth-NMDP in Nepal

Measuring Systemic Change – The case of GEMS1 in Nigeria (2015)

Monitoring Program Progress – The case of Making Markets Work for the Jamuna, Padma and Teesta Chars in Bangladesh (2015)

MDF - Achieving changes in markets (2015)

MDF - Women's economic empowerment: How women contribute to and benefit from growth (2015)