A promotional flyer that outlines our approach to PMSD and the thinking behind the PMSD Roadmap. If printing, make sure you print as a booklet, and print both sides.

1. The PMSD Roadmap
Facilitating market systems

2. The PMSD Roadmap launched in
February 2012. We are very excited
Sharing with Others
about the opportunities it will For organisations and agencies
provide for Practical Action and wanting support in value chain
other like-minded organisations and development and market systems
agencies to continue to improve the facilitation, Practical Action’s
way we facilitate more efficient, consultancy arm Practical Action
inclusive and equitable markets Consulting are one mechanism
that work better for vulnerable and through which we share our
marginalized women and men approaches and learning, and offer
around the world. tailored services to meet
individuals’ specific needs.
The ten steps of the PMSD Roadmap
PMSD is featured as a “best practice” in the
implementation of value chain development by
USAID 2 and is also highly regarded by donors
including DFID, SDC and the European Commission.

3. Markets are... decades of learning about the best
ways to build sustainable
vital to the rural poor – whether as enterprises in rural contexts.
workers, producers or consumers.
Transforming these market systems
can be extremely powerful at
The PMSD Roadmap
tackling rural poverty, and the The PMSD Roadmap is a structured
benefits can be shared on a very sequence of steps designed to
large scale. However all too often, guide and train field staff in how to
weak relationships between market facilitate the PMSD process on the
actors, a lack of access to critical ground. Practical Action is
inputs and services and a disabling developing the in-depth resources
institutional environment combine that will form each step.
to create market systems that
compound the vulnerability and
marginalization of the poor.
But markets can and do work for
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the poor. Market actors can work
together to unblock constraints to
make entire sectors more efficient
and competitive. When poor women
and men are empowered to be part
of this collaboration, market
transformations can bring
inclusiveness and equitability to
An example of a step of the PMSD Roadmap
the system.
Our Approach: The PMSD Roadmap offers three
levels of capacity building:
The Participatory Market System A series of detailed, step-by-step
Development (PMSD) approach has guidelines, available online for
developed over 10 years, from anyone to use;
Practical Action’s experience of the
way poor women and men A set of training courses, that can
sustainably generate an income. be downloaded and adapted to
PMSD has evolved with the specific contexts by managers
frameworks of value chain wanting to train their teams;
development and Making Markets A mentoring programme1 to build
Work for the Poor (M4P). It is the skills and competencies of
based on Practical Action’s field expert facilitators and PMSD
experience across Africa, South leaders.
Asia and Latin America, and four

4. Visit the roadmap at:
www.slideshare.net/pmsd-map
For further information
Please contact:
Lucho Osorio
luis.osorio@practicalaction.org.uk
International Market Systems Specialist
Or visit:
http://practicalaction.org/pmsd
NOTES
1 In collaboration with CARE, CHF International, and Conservation International,
with the support of USAID
2 www.microlinks.org Microreport #149
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