Saturday, 22 August 2015

What does a market system specialist like me do?

Economic Development
  • Develop retail networks in developing countries to get products and services in the hands of low-income marginalised consumers
  • Help aid programmes do more systemic social welfare through systemic safety net programmes
  • Improve the enabling environment for MSMEs and the informal sector  
Social Business and CSR
  • Look at supply chain interventions that go beyond the value chain approach and take more of a systemic perspective that actually deliver benefits to poor farmers 
  • Identify different areas where CSR can be better programmed by way of a market systems approach
  • Integrate the private sector into market systems approaches that have historically focused on socialist mechanisms (large State, community associations, NGOs)
  • Work with system actors to identify areas where market systems development will make a difference
Behaviour Change
  • Train practitioners on behaviour change and behaviour change methodologies to help projects deliver systemic solutions 
  • Design behaviour change tools to improve the adoption and commitment of poor people to long terms savings and investments practices