Presentation by Lucho Osorio from Practical Action, at the Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLA) seminar on 26th January 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK.

1. Making Markets Work for the Poor and SLA Lucho Osorio Markets and Livelihoods Programme Practical Action

2. Are they different?

3. Source: Carney, 1998

4. Source: Springfield Centre

5. Source: Practical Action

6. SLA and M4P: are they different?

7. Some convergences Importance of institutions Links micro and macro Holistic approach Dynamic Strengths rather than needs Importance of sustainability

8. Some divergences SLA Community-centric Impact on community Micro - macro Livelihood strategies: source of sustainability Social/environmental Rural development M4P System-centric Impact on system Meso – Macro System as the source Economic/financial Sectoral/subsectoral development

9. 3 tectonic shifts

10. us to them Tectonic shift #1

11. Doing Learning Tectonic shift #2

12. Tectonic shift #3 Complex Systems Discourse Action

13. So… where are things going?

14. Where are things going? Impact assessment IA that embraces complexity & indirect causal links Skills and attitudes of field practitioners To become effective facilitators Collaboration NGOs, donors and private investors Facilitation-friendly principles and rules

15. Where are things going? Sustainable growth How can it be achieved? Gender What is the role of and impact on women? Cultural and social norms How to understand and use them?

16. Where are things going? Diffusion of innovation Applications and implications Learning systems Processes, institutions and agents “Endogenous” facilitation How to build capacity of market actors Extreme poverty and vulnerability “Stretching” markets & non-markets strategies

17. Thanks a lot For more information: http://practicalaction.org/aim2 Just google “mafi” + “markets” Or contact Lucho at: luis.osorio@practicalaction.org.uk MaFI