Showing posts with label apparel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apparel. Show all posts

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

Monday, 20 July 2015

Article - Apparel sourcing opportunities in Madagascar and Mauritius

An interesting perspective on apparel industries in southern Africa. The video also includes evidence of how intra-Africa trade is supporting the growth of the apparel industry where the exports of fabric from Mauritius go to Madagascar to feed producers and workshops.

Madagascar and Mauritius are not small fish third-tier suppliers. Their factories supply to major global retailers - CMT cited in the Mauritius segment of the video supplies to Puma, Marks and Spencer, Topshop and H&M.