March 4th - 8th, in Zürich

This course provides a basic introduction to the concepts and methods behind M4P. M4P is an approach to understand and overcome the failure of systems to serve the needs of the poor. Contrary to traditional project approaches, in which implementing agencies provide or support services directly to the poor, an agency applying M4P acts as facilitator that aligns key players and functions of a system to produce sustainable results. As the term M4P indicates, the approach was originally developed to analyze and strengthen market systems and private sector development – which will be the focus of the course. Today, the approach is also applied to systems with predominantly public sector activities, such as education systems.

Key topics:

• Enabling an environment for private sector development
• Strategic framework of the M4P approach
• Analysing and understanding systems and system change
• Sustainability of system change 
• Facilitation of system change
• Monitoring and measurement of M4P interventions
• Management of M4P interventions

Lecturers:

Maja Rüegg, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation 
Raphael Dischl, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Peter Bissegger, Swisscontact 
Michael Fink, Swisscontact 
Dr. Kenneth Harttgen, NADEL

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