Market System Selection provides guidance on how to select the market system(s) to focus your facilitation energies on. It discusses the selection criteria against which to judge the market systems, and the iterative investigation you can use to make an informed and balanced decision.

1. Step 1: Market System
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2. Market System Selection
Summary
Market System Selection provides
guidance on how to select the market
system(s) to focus your facilitation
energies on.
It discusses the selection criteria against
which to judge the market systems, and
the iterative investigation you can use to
make an informed and balanced decision.
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3. Market System Selection
Rationale
The Market System Selection step will
allow you to:
• Brainstorm a long-list of possible market
systems
• Discuss and agree within your team on
selection criteria for the systems
• Collect information on the market systems,
and score and rank them accordingly
• Discuss, deliberate and make the final
decision on your market system selection
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4. Top Tips
• Make an evidence-based, pragmatic and
Market System Selection
transparent decision
• Concentrate your efforts on one or a small number
of interconnected market systems for the best
chance of deep and lasting improvements
• Economic opportunity and potential impact on
poverty are essential criteria to judge promising
market systems against each other
• Don’t ignore the priorities of donors: these will
make your proposal more likely to secure funding;
• Briefly document the rationale behind all key
decisions in order to maintain transparency
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5. Market System Selection
Guidelines
Download a detailed set of notes describing
our past experiences, recommendations and
action points for selecting a market system in
an informed way:
• Step 1 Guidelines – Market System Selection
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6. Market System Selection
Training
Download training materials that can be used
in workshops to train practitioners in how to
conduct market system selection, through
games, exercises and discussions:
• Step 1 Training Materials – Facilitator Guide
• Step 1 Training Materials – Slides
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7. Market System Selection
Templates
Download the templates from the market
system selection guidelines:
• Step 1 Template – Market System Selection
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8. Market System Selection
Case Studies
Read case studies about our experiences of
conducting market system selection:
• Young Rural Entrepreneurs in Peru
• Transforming Livestock Markets in Zimbabwe
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9. Market System Selection
Further Resources
• Coming soon!
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10. The Roadmap
1 Market System Selection
Market System Selection
2 Preliminary Mapping and Analysis
3 Strategic Design and Planning
4 Empowering Marginalised Actors
5 Engaging Key Actors
6 Participatory Market Mapping
7 Participatory Planning
8 Facilitating Change
9 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
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10 Communicating Evidence for Uptake