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Making Market Systems Work Training Programme
Bangkok, 28 November to 9 December 2022

It’s back! By popular demand, the much missed Making Market Systems Work training programme returns this autumn. The perfect antidote to your pandemic-induced woes of online courses, webinars and interminable Zoom life – it’s time to meet real folk in real time for that real learning and exchange experience!

Why join us? Well, frankly, why not??

Your (COVID-free) training team has been well and truly boosted, not just with vaccinations, but new trainers and new material. Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder but for Springfield it has certainly provided us the time to reflect with a variety of systems programmes and practitioners on their day-to-day experience of putting MSD into practice – fresh experience, fresh material, fresh faced and refreshed. Looking forward to seeing you there…

Applications will officially open this summer. More information coming soon.

Fondation BOTNAR
 

Springfield (in partnership with Swisscontact) has been awarded a two year assignment through Fondation Botnar, in Basel. The assignment focuses on the work of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No 3 (good health and wellbeing).  The purpose of the assignment is to identify and deliver solutions that will address the structural constraints to scaling innovation. Many current initiatives are working on last mile delivery of health related services and  products and the establishment of effective, and early, partnerships with governments.  Recent research suggests that the main constraints to scalable innovation include: supply chains and procurement systems; availability of public funding; legislation, regulations and procedures;  effective partnerships; leadership; and management capabilities.  

Jon Burns (Director at Springfield) will be leading the assignment and will be advising and supporting the SDG3 working group which will oversee the process. The work will involve: research on recent and existing initiatives to scale innovation in national health, and other, systems; an investigation of, and advice to, existing SDG3 initiatives to scale innovation,  “deep dive” exercises on existing health and wellbeing programmes in four countries; innovation mapping exercises in six countries; and the development, production, and wide circulation, of a guideline on good practice, which we hope will be endorsed by the WHO.  

Things that make you go "Hmmm..."

As consultants, there are many things in in the world of development that leave us feeling a little confounded. On this occasion, it was findings in the field of agriculture (pun absolutely intended).

Read our latest blog post on the gardening prowess of one of our consultants, the true meaning of the acronym FFS, and evidence that the popular choice is not always the most effective.

 

MDF Pakistan

MDF Pakistan has developed a series of papers discussing lessons from the programme. These papers explore sector selection in MSD programmes and expand on what to consider when choosing partners and how to improve chances of success. In addition, it includes lessons and results from MDF’s interventions in microfinance for women in rural areas of Pakistan.

The cases were prepared by the MDF Pakistan team, with inputs from the MDF Shared Resources team, including
Rob Hitchins (Director at Springfield), MDF’s Senior Advisor.

Read Blog Post
Read the Papers

In case you missed it... 

The ABCs of MSD: a learning series

26 years ago, the Springfield Centre was founded to improve the scale and sustainability of the impact of development programmes. Adaptive management was just a twinkle in the development sector’s eye in the late 1990s, but learning from experience and doing things differently is in market system development’s DNA. So, in the spirit of knowledge sharing, every two weeks this year, we’re publishing a new post on good practice, examples, or new applications of MSD. 26 years, 26 topics, 26 posts. You can view all the posts so far on our blog.
 

View the series so far

What have we been doing recently?

A snapshot of the work we have been involved in over the past few months.
Best wishes,

The Springfield Team
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