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Market Development in Crisis-Affected Environments: Emerging Lessons for Achieving Pro-Poor Economic Reconstruction
The SEEP Network Market Development Working Group
How can people be helped to move more quickly from relief dependency to independent livelihood security? What does the market development approach have to offer in crisis and post-crisis settings?
This SEEP Network publication brings together a collection of experiences in using and promoting the local private sector to improve delivery of relief services or post-crisis development initiatives. It analyses thirteen cases from areas affected by conflict and natural disasters around the world. Market development approaches aim to help small enterprises participate in existing and potential markets to stimulate sustainable economic growth that reduces poverty. This publication argues that market-led approaches in crisis and post-crisis environments can speed up reconstruction and leverage the private sector to work with more households so they can gain sustainable livelihoods.
The paper highlights that:
There is strong potential for market development in post-crisis environments, particularly when approaches are based on a sound understanding of the market and designed to take limited infrastructure and human resources into account.
These approaches can be used in times of ongoing instability as long as populations are relatively stable and security is reasonable.
It recommends that:
Donor funding cycles and targeting criteria need to be adjusted to integrate relief and development goals, to be more flexible in implementation strategy, and to reflect the power of indirect targeting in order to benefit poor people affected by a crisis.
The political economy of markets must be taken into account, lest market development programs inadvertently exacerbate inequality, vulnerability, and conflict. |
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Document Relevance
- DFID Programme Sector: Conflict, Disasters, Economic Development, Enterprise Development; Humanitarian Affairs, Markets
- DFID Programme Process: Aid Co-ordination
- DFID Programme Region: All
Publication Details
- Publisher: The SEEP Network
- Language(s): English
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are welcome at: livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk
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