Participatory Market Mapping describes the process at the heart of PMSD: a series of flexible workshops bringing diverse groups of market actors together. It provides a space for market actors to identify how their market system really works, and facilitates the development of trust, coordination and collaboration between them. Last updated 11/10/12

1. Step 6: Participatory
Market Mapping
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2. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Summary
Participatory Market Mapping describes
the process at the heart of PMSD: a series of
flexible workshops bringing diverse groups
of market actors together.
It provides a space for market actors to
identify how their market system really
works, and facilitates the development of
trust, coordination and collaboration
between them.

3. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Rationale
The participatory market mapping step
will help you to:
• Understand the objectives of the
participatory market mapping workshops
• Familiarise yourselves with the
transformative journey that the process
takes market actors on
• Plan, prepare and review workshops
• Facilitate the workshops strategically

4. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Top Tips
• Facilitate participatory market mapping as a series
of workshops that gradually build the relationships
between market actors
• Review the progress of market actors after each
workshop in order to set the objectives of the next
workshop strategically
• Don’t underestimate the value of a good facilitator:
the success of the process depends enormously on
the facilitators’ skills and their ability to help market
actors along the process
• Use carefully chosen exercises to focus the agenda
of the workshops strategically

5. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Guidelines
Download a detailed set of notes describing
our past experiences, recommendations and
action points on how to plan, prepare, review
and facilitate participatory market mapping
workshops
• Step 6 Guidelines – Participatory Market Mapping
• Supplementary Guidance Note: Exercises for Participatory
Market Mapping workshops

6. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Training
Before you start training practitioners
on how to facilitate workshops, make
sure you have covered the Facilitation Skills
and Attitudes module.
This module enables participants to be more
confident and competent in putting the tools
and principles of PMSD into practice.
• Facilitation Skills Training Materials – Facilitator Guide
• Facilitation Skills Training Materials – Slides

7. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Training
Download training materials that can be used
in workshops to train practitioners in how to
conduct participatory market mapping
workshops, through games, exercises and
discussions.
• Step 6 Training Materials – Facilitator Guide
• Step 6 Training Materials - Slides

8. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Templates
Download the templates from the
participatory market mapping guidelines:
• Step 6 Template – Participatory Market Mapping

9. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Case Studies
Read case studies about our own experience of
conducting participatory market mapping:
• Making Markets Work for the Poor in Bangladesh
• Transforming Livestock Markets in Zimbabwe

10. 6 Participatory Market Mapping Further Resources
• Coming soon!

11. 6 Participatory Market Mapping The Roadmap
1 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
10 Communicating Evidence for Uptake