Making Markets Work for the Poor and SLA

Lucho OsorioMarkets and Livelihoods Programme

Practical Action

Are they different?

Source: Carney, 1998

Source: Springfield Centre

Source: Practical Action

SLA and M4P: are they different?

Some convergences

• Importance of institutions

• Links micro and macro

• Holistic approach

• Dynamic

• Strengths rather than needs

• Importance of sustainability

Some divergences

SLA• Community-centric

• Impact on community

• Micro - macro

• Livelihood strategies: source

of sustainability

• Social/environmental

• Rural development

M4P• System-centric

• Impact on system

• Meso – Macro

• System as the source

• Economic/financial

• Sectoral/subsectoral

development

3 tectonic shifts

us to them

Tectonic shift #1

Doing Learning

Tectonic shift #2

Tectonic shift #3

Discourse Action

Complex Systems

So… where are things going?

Where are things going?

• Impact assessment

– IA that embraces complexity & indirect causal links

• Skills and attitudes of field practitioners

– To become effective facilitators

• Collaboration NGOs, donors and private investors

– Facilitation-friendly principles and rules

Where are things going?

• Sustainable growth

–How can it be achieved?

• Gender

–What is the role of and impact on women?

• Cultural and social norms

–How to understand and use them?

Where are things going?

• Diffusion of innovation– Applications and implications

• Learning systems– Processes, institutions and agents

• “Endogenous” facilitation– How to build capacity of market actors

• Extreme poverty and vulnerability– “Stretching” markets & non-markets strategies

Thanks a lot• For more information:

http://practicalaction.org/aim2

MaFIJust google “mafi” + “markets”

Or contact Lucho at:luis.osorio@practicalaction.org.uk