Technical Brief #1: Remote Agribusiness Engagement during COVID-19
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Monday, May 10, 2021 - Thursday, May 20, 2021
Abt Global is a proud collaborating partner of the 2021 Market Systems Symposium. The conference brings together leading experts, practitioners, and donors from around the globe to discuss the latest approaches to market systems development.
From evaluating food security and agriculture programs to helping countries build climate-resilient communities, Abt has been at the forefront of transforming and strengthening market systems. Visit our virtual booth to learn more.
Our staff look forward to participating in the following sessions:
Tuesday, May 11, 9:00 -10:30 a.m. ET
Plenary: Positioning Yourself for Integrating Natural Resource Management, Climate Change & MSD
There is an increasingly urgent need to apply systems lenses as a way to gain insights into how to better catalyze alignment between political, social, and market forces in support of evidence-based strategies and tactics to counter the human effects of climate change and natural resource management. This session will explore how market forces emerge and change, and how practitioners are trying to catalyze changes in market forces that, in turn, drive behavior change. This session also will feature an interview with practitioners who are utilizing climate financing to catalyze change.
Abt Presenter: Lorine Giangola
Tuesday, May 11, 11:00 a.m. ET
Toolbox: Climate Financing
Clinic session on climate financing: a short presentation on basics of how climate financing works.
Abt Presenter: Lorine Giangola
Wednesday, May 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
Deep Dive Cafe: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
Small group discussion on measuring systemic change: Bringing in experience from the AgResults evaluation.
Abt Discussant: Judy Geyer
Thursday, May 13, 7:00 - 8:30 a.m. ET
Deep Dive Café: Market Systems Approaches to Nutrition
Small group discussion on nutrition: bringing in insights from Abt’s Bangladesh Nutrition Activity
Abt Discussant: Jamal Khetran, Abt Global Bangladesh
Thursday, May 13, 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. ET
Clinic: Climate Financing
Small group discussion on climate financing: sharing insights from Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment and Resilience (CEADIR) Project
Abt Presenter: Santiago Enriquez
Thursday, May 13, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. ET
Plenary: Gaining Essential Insights into Urban & Peri-Urban Programming – With Impacts Across All Development Outcomes
Urban populations, and especially the urban poor, face substantial challenges, which in many ways are more central to the path to an inclusive middle-income status than the challenges in rural communities. Many challenges related to rural communities depend on how market systems change that is most likely to emerge from urban and peri-urban regions, such as the emergence of manufacturing, ICT, & financial services. This session will include a range of practitioner experiences working with urban poor. Specifically, cases from housing, health, and improving the resilience of urban communities will be highlighted.
Abt Presenter: Ram Ganesan
Monday, May 17, 7:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Deep Dive Café: Adaptive Management Program Design & Pivot
Small group discussion on adaptive management: sharing insights from Feed the Future Cambodia Harvest II Project.
Abt Discussant: Kallyan Ith, Abt Global Cambodia
Additional Resources
Empowering Women and Catalyzing Markets to Improve Nutrition
What influences a women’s ability to provide a balanced diet for herself and her household? In Bangladesh, the complex food system involves agriculture and non-agriculture market actors who affect food availability, access, utilization, and stability…
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Evaluating Prize Competitions Around the World
The AgResults initiative was created by five donors after the 2010 G20 summit. The donors recognized that their resources alone could not significantly reduce poverty in the world’s poorest countries. They created AgResults to test whether pay-for…
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Abt’s Buyer-led, Market Systems Approach to Cambodian Horticulture
Millions of Cambodians have risen from poverty, yet many still live in vulnerable conditions. The government of Cambodia recognized that accelerating the growth of the horticulture sector would bring new opportunities, enabling farmers to benefit from…
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Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment, and Resilience
Climate change response means mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to limit temperature increases, and adopting strategies to adapt to climate change’s unavoidable consequences. Private and public investment are needed to develop, deploy, and scale up…
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Building the Next Generation of Resilient Ugandans
Statistically, the average Ugandan is a poor, malnourished, 14-year-old girl living in a rural area, prone to drop out of school and at extreme risk of pregnancy and early marriage. Her well-being is a bellwether for all Ugandans. She must thrive if the…
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