This document is a guidance paper for SDC head office and cooperation office staff. 

This is the updated version 2022 in English and French. The Spanish version is from 2017.

The guidance document provides advice for SDC staff on how to manage projects using a market systems approach. Advice is provided for developing the initial project idea and formal entry proposal, the tender process, the inception phase, credit proposal and implementation phase, steering and monitoring, evaluation and preparation of a following phase.

There is also a short video with explanation and overview of the guidance paper  - see video in English or see video in French

Further, there is a brief for decision-makers and poster that can be printed and displayed in your office to make people aware of the guidance.