Call for Project Examples: Learning from Push/Pull and Inclusive Market Development for USAID's Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) Project

Through its Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project, USAID is seeking brief project examples of engaging and benefiting the very poor through push/pull approaches to inclusive market development. Based on the definitions provided below, USAID is interested in examples of efforts (successful or not) to better integrate “push” and “pull” approaches. These may include examples focused on the design of a project (or a group of projects across implementers), models of interventions, and/or day-to-day operational or management structures that illustrate new ways of breaking down silos and working together. Projects with demonstrated outreach to the very poor and focused on reaching significant levels of scale are of particular interest.

Project examples will be featured in upcoming reports and learning resources, which will be accessible by USAID and practitioners, on lessons learned in inclusive market development, with recommendations for future project design and implementation. In addition, project examples of particular interest may be developed into more comprehensive case studies, and resources will be made available for this. As trends or innovation emerge, LEO also expects to facilitate practitioner learning exchanges around these examples (e.g. SEEP working group discussions, e-consultations, etc).

Project examples (500 words or less) are requested by March 31, 2014. The LEO team expects engagement with practitioners to be an iterative process, with any final feedback and next steps (as relevant) communicated no later than April 25, 2014.

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