MiC e-learning
This new online course aims to simplify and demystify market-based programming in emergencies by covering how to map, analyse, design, and monitor market-friendly programmes through the project cycle.
The course is organized into eight modules and explores essential concepts and skills that are necessary to understand markets and conduct market analysis in an emergency context.
This course was developed in collaboration with the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP).
Learning by Doing
The most effective way to learn about market analysis is to simply participate in a market assessment. Depending on your experience with other types of assessments and your comfort level, you may even be able to try leading a simple market assessment yourself, one with very clear objectives and a limited scope, so that you can become familiar with the concepts and processes in market analysis without becoming overwhelmed.
If you are not quite ready to lead an assessment yourself, you may have some luck by volunteering to participate in an assessment that someone else in your agency, or in another agency, is leading, as a critical market team leader, or just as a regular team member.
REACH often welcomes offers from individuals or agencies to support market assessments and market monitoring in the 20-odd countries where it operates. You may be able to find out about upcoming market assessments through your local Cash Working Group and/or other local coordination bodies, or through the MiC forum.
Market Systems Development 101
An Introduction to MSD and Why it Matters in Refugee Response.
During this hour-long webinar, participants learn how market systems development (MSD) empowers marginalized communities, including refugees and other forcibly displaced populations, by sustainably fostering inclusive livelihoods and essential services.
The webinar was offered in September 2023 by the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative.
Next Steps
Several providers offer paid-for online trainings.
DevLearn offers online training in market systems development and monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Over one thousand people, including consultants, project managers, donors, and measurement specialists, have taken DevLearn’s MSD course and gained practical, effective skills in international development.
Facilitated Trainings
Key Aid Consulting and CaLP are occasional providers of these trainings. Organizing a standalone training is still very possible, as demand for such trainings is high, training materials are available (see some resources at the bottom of this page), and numerous consultants and humanitarian practitioners are qualified to facilitate them – it’s simply a matter of obtaining funding for such a training and putting in the effort to organize one.
You may want to use the MiC forum to advertise the training and circulate a TOR for a consultant trainer. Be sure to allow at least a few months to organize market assessment training, as many qualified consultants are booked several months in advance.
