Our flagship e-learning programme is suitable for those beginning or currently working in market systems development. It covers all of the key concepts and frameworks necessary to help design and implement effective market-based interventions.
Market Systems Development for Implementers
MSD has been around for two decades. It has reached maturity and a great deal has been learned along the way. We have developed a body of knowledge and disseminated learning applied in different contexts, meaning the challenge now is to get this high quality learning to as many people as possible.
With this in mind we design the state-of-the-art MSD for implementers e-learning programme. Take the course at your convenience and learn about all aspect of being an effective implementer of MSD programmes. Benefit from multi-media bite-sized modules, gamified content, and other tools to optimise learning.
CONTENT:
The content is divided into 8 modules which reflect the sequence of an implementer's work in designing and executing a programme.
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Why market systems development? Exploring the background and rationale underpinning the approach
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Programme design: How to determine your development objectives, target groups, select sectors and other crucial parameters.
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Understanding market systems: How to understand the ways that systems work and produce the development outcomes that they do.
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What is market systems analysis? Examines the drivers of underperformance in markets.
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Data collection and understanding systems: Examining the real practicalities of how to do market systems analysis with exercises to help you put it into practice.
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Understanding support markets: Getting to the root causes of problems in markets.
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Intervention development: The most crucial and largest modules examines how best to use development money to influence sustainable change in markets. It offers a full suite of tools covering everything from developing business cases right through to influencing behaviour change and individual stakeholder analysis.
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Monitoring and adaptive management: Covering the different ways in which you can know whether what you're doing is working, and how you can respond if it isn't.
Watch this video to see some of the exciting interactive content the course has to offer.
DELIVERY:
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The course is a state-of-the-art Elearning course, featuring innovative self-paced, mixed-method delivery optimised for learning.
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Each interactive module features exercises, games, interviews, written and spoken exercises.
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Modules are visually stunning and designed to engage the learner with a variety of content styles.
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Audio commentary is included as an option for those who want to vary their learning style.
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Each module typically takes 2-4 hours to complete with a total of 40 hours learning.
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Repeat the modules as often as you like modules to gain a deeper understanding - importantly, the training follows the Socratic method to encourage critical thinking. Answering questions repeatedly from different angle mirrors how we learn in the field.
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The Agora team are here throughout to support with technical and technological questions.
CERTIFICATION:
Successful completion of the course will be rewarded with a certificate of completion signed by the Agora management.
REVIEWS:
Agora has trained over 5,000 development professionals in market systems development across the years both in person and online.
Organisations we have trained include:
FEES: £300 GBP (+VAT)
The course fees have been kept as low as possible to ensure the course is as widely accessible as possible. Simply follow the link below, pay the fee, and get learning!
Questions? Contact training@agoraglobal.org to find out more.
