A simple guide for shelter practitioners on implementing market-based programming in humanitarian and development responses.
There are a number of priority markets and market systems that shelter and settlements actors will find relevant to understand in their work and that can inform and influence response activities. These include both markets that affected populations are using to meet their shelter needs as well as markets that shelter actors might interact with for the response itself. The categories below are dynamic and are in most instances composed of many different formal and informal market systems. It is worth noting that even market systems with only one supplier and a fixed price—for example, government-run markets for refugee residency permits or electricity from a national grid—still qualify as simple market systems and can be influenced through well-designed MBP focusing on advocacy.
