Making Markets Work (for the Poor)/M4P: Some key links, 2011

Description
While the whole site is dedicated to M4P principles, this entry provides a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of links and documents relating to Making Markets Work - in most cases, explicitly for the Poor. For the latest M4P page on the main DCED website, click here.

M4P is an approach to poverty reduction that donors such as DFID, Sida and SDC have been supporting over the past few years. The central idea is that the poor are dependent on market systems for their livelihoods. Therefore changing those market systems to work more effectively and sustainably for the poor will improve their livelihoods and consequently reduce poverty.

"The last few years have seen an upsurge of interest in market development approaches amongst aid agencies. Alongside M4P there is UNDP's Growing Inclusive Markets, the IADB's Opportunities for the Majority and the IFC's Next Four Billion. Amongst businesses, there is growing interest in social investment, sustainable business practices, fair trade and engaging with the Base of the (Economic) Pyramid. Although terminology and emphasis may differ, all of these approaches see a market-based economic engagement with the poor as essential for sustainable development." (M4P Synthesis, DFID/SDC)

Key Links
New M4P page on the main DCED website
The new M4P knowledge and exchange forum
M4P publications of the Springfield Centre for Business in Development, on their website (many are also posted below)
SDC's main M4P site and Market Approaches to Development site

Key Documents
Overview & Strategy
DFID's Private Sector Development Strategy: Prosperity for all: making markets work (2008)
Synthesis of the Making Markets Work for the Poor Approach (commissioned by DFID and SDC, 2008)
MMW4P: The Framework, DFID (2008)
M4P - An introduction to the concept. Summary Paper for an ADB-DFID conference (2005)
Making Markets Work for the Poor: An objective & an approach, ComMark Trust, South Africa (2004-5)
Making Markets Work Better for the Poor - Original Framework Paper (2000)
Markets4Poor: The DFID/ADB M4P programme in SE Asia
UNDP: Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor, UNDP (2008)
Wealth of the Poor: Eliminating Poverty through Market and Private Sector Development, Sida (2005)
CARE Canada - Making Markets Work for the Poor (2004)
Sierra Leone's PSD Strategy 2009-14 (includes explicit M4P element)

Methods for info gathering
M4P in Context
Making Markets Work for the Poor: Results Measurement in PSD: Current Practice and Challenges ahead, SDC Seminar (2009)
Understanding the Market System the components that make markets work, DFID (2008)
Making Markets Work for Poor - Comparing M4P and Sustainable Livelihood Approach frameworks, SDC (2008)
Perspectives on the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) Approach, DFID/SDC (2008)
How MMW4P contributes to Growth and Poverty Reduction, DFID (2008)
The Role MMW4P plays in Growth Strategies, DFID (2008)
Making Carbon Markets Work for the Poor in Vietnam, Practical Action (2009)
Market-based approaches to water and sanitation, Waterlines journal (2011)
M4P: Comparative Approaches to Private Sector Development, SDC (2006)
How can research-based interventions be more effective at influencing policy and practice? ADB Vietnam (2005)

Discussions and Proceedings
"M4P: What it is and Where it's Going?" Bangkok Workshop (2008)
MMW4P - Private sector delivery of public benefit goods and services, SDC seminar (2007)
Eighth Annual Seminar on developing value chains and service markets (2007)(English/French/Spanish)
M4P Public Private Day report (2005)

Summary of results
Design and Implementation
M4P Operational Guide, DFID/SDC (2008)
Implementing MMW4P Programmes, DFID (2008)
MMW4P Programmes - Lessons Learned, DFID (2008)
Value chain analysis is a subset of M4P; these guides exemplify the application of an M4P lens to value chain analysis:
The ILO Guide for Value Chain Analysis and Upgrading
Making Value Chains Work Better for the Poor: A Toolbook for Practitioners of Value Chain Analysis, DFID (2008)
Click on this link for other examples

M4P Projects and Case Studies
Making Markets Work Better for the Poor: Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, ADB/DFID (2003-2007)
Employment Promotion Programme, South Africa
Katalyst, Bangladesh
PrOpCom, Nigeria
FinMark
Developing financial service markets for the poor: FinMark in South Africa**
M4P Programme Summary South Africa FinMark Trust
ComMark
M4P Programme Summary Southern Africa ComMark Trust
Accelerating Shared Growth - Making Markets Work for the Poor in South Africa, ComMark 2006
Making Markets Work for the Poor in Eastern and Southern Africa, ComMark Seminar, 12-14 March 2007
MMW4P, Bolivia
Promotion of Equity through Pro-Poor Growth Programme, Nicaragua
Making Service Markets Work for the Poor in Uganda, by Jim Tanburn and Regina Kamuhanda (2005)
Experiences from SDC regional programmes in the Balkans and South Caucasus**
Improving the environment for small businesses in Indonesia and Russia: Experiences from Swisscontact**
Public and private schooling in Ghana: Are the Poor being served? CREATE/DFID, September 2010

** These case studies form part of a series prepared primarily by the Springfield Centre, on behalf of the Fauno Consortium for the Employment and Income Division of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation(SDC).