Making Markets Work for the Poor and SLA Lucho Osorio Markets and Livelihoods Programme Practical Action
May 24, 2015
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
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