Practitioners’ Guidance to Assessing Systems Change

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Written By Cate Urban

Drawing from the practical experience of MEL managers working on market systems development (MSD) programs around the world for a diverse set of donors, this guide aims to help other MEL managers find what works best for their program and teams in assessing systems change. The guidance is aided by the honest exchange from peers working in diverse contexts, team capacities, and mandates.

Rather than viewing systems change assessments as a backward-looking exercise to be conducted at the end of a program to justify impact, this guide asks, “How might we assess systems change more frequently and effectively, generating feedback our teams need to better understand and catalyze change? Can this help us leave a more impactful legacy?”

This guidance focuses on assessing systemic change as an ongoing action done in implementation, as part of a regular monitoring and evaluation system, and not just at the end of the program.

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Practitioners’ Guidance to Assessing Systems Change

Source: USAID
Year: 2023

Cate Urban

I founded Urban Web Renovations after 11 years of leading global marketing strategies for nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC. In each position I held, one thing remained the same – my passion for managing web sites and social media accounts for both organizations and major thought leaders.

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