Slides with the key 7 things you should know about MaFI... the best network for inclusive market development facilitators in the world! Why it is different; its learning agenda; how to participate, etc.

1. 7 things you should
know about MaFI
making inclusive market development easier and
more cost-effective to reduce poverty at scale
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2. much more than a space for talking...
trust + joint vision
JOINT ACTION
PEER-SUPPORT
LEARNING
time

3. … creating a virtuous circle
for global influence
PEER-SUPPORT
LEARNING
MaFI as a global driver of good
practices and policies in
inclusive market development
JOINT ACTION

4. building trust and reciprocity
Listeners
(staying tuned & spreading the voice)
•Long-term interactions
•Members know who is who
Committed members
(changing the world)
•The power of LinkedIn to
build your own professional
network
•“MaFI changed the way I
work on a daily basis, as it is
like having an additional
layer of colleagues around
the world eager to support,
and whom I can support as
well when needed […]”
(Gianluca Nardi, Nov 2011)

5. a learning agenda focused on
Subsidies
Horizontal & Vertical Linkages
Capacity Building
Impact Assessment
… but responsive to members’ needs

6. Theme
Capacity
Building
Linkages
Incentives
Within development orgs.
Within market systems
How to build capacity of
development organizations
and practitioners?
How to build capacity of
strategic market actors to drive
change in their market systems?
How to promote in-person
collaboration and learning
among practitioners?
What incentives and how to
use them to improve
organizational learning about
facilitation of inclusive
market development?
How to promote vertical and
horizontal linkages between
market actors?
How to assess impact of
learning processes within
Impact
development organisations
Assessment working to become
facilitators of inclusive
market development?
What incentives and subsidies
and how to use them to catalyse
systemic and sustainable
change?
How to assess impacts of
facilitation on the strategies and
activities of market actors?
How to assess impacts of
strategies and activities of
market actors on their market
systems?

7. bringing real people into the equation
through Local Learning Groups (LLGs)
and informal meetings
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8. concrete initiatives to change the world
• The MaFI-festo Dialogues
working with the donor community to promote facilitationfriendly rules and principles in inclusive market
development (http://slidesha.re/mafifesto2)
• The Complexity Dialogues
bringing complexity experts and market facilitators
together to introduce complexity science into the
practices and policies of inclusive market development…

9. concrete initiatives to change the world
• Systemic M&E for inclusive markets
rethinking the current M&E paradigm to promote the
adoption of complexity science, systems thinking and
facilitation in M&E for inclusive market development.
This initiative is one of the solutions proposed in the MaFIfesto and is being implemented with the collaboration of
The SEEP Network and USAID.
• Check out the latest news at: http://bit.ly/systemandeatseep

10. how to participate and benefit
• Become a committed member: http://svy.mk/applytomafi
• Become a MaFI-cionado: http://on.fb.me/fbpagemafi
• Follow MaFI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marketfacil
• Use MaFI-licious; an ever-growing bibliography of online
resources used by MaFI experts: http://delicious.com/marketfacil
• Use MaFI’s knowledge products on Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/marketfacil
• Comments or questions? Contact MaFI facilitator Lucho Osorio
at luis.osorio@practicalaction.org.uk

11. be part of the people who are making
markets work to end poverty at scale
using facilitation…
be part of
MaFI is an initiative of the SEEP Network
with the technical support of Practical Action