Seven Things You Should Know About MaFI

7 things you should know about MaFI advancing the practice of inclusive market development facilitation worldwide

much more than a space for talking... time trust + joint vision LEARNING PEER-SUPPORT JOINT ACTION

… creating a virtuous circle for global influence MaFI as a global driver of good practices and policies in inclusive market development LEARNING PEER-SUPPORT JOINT ACTION

building trust and reciprocity Listeners (staying tuned & spreading the voice) Committed members (changing the world)
Long-term interactions
Members know who is who
The power of LinkedIn to build your own professional network
“ MaFI changed the way I work on a daily basis, as it is like having an additional layer of colleagues around the world eager to support, and whom I can support as well when needed […]” (Gianluca Nardi, Nov 2011)

a learning agenda focused on
Subsidies
Horizontal & Vertical Linkages
Capacity Building
Impact Assessment (new!)
… while responsive to members’ needs

Theme Within development orgs. Within market systems Capacity Building How to build capacity of development organizations and practitioners? How to build capacity of strategic market actors to lead change in their market systems? Linkages How to promote in-person collaboration and learning among practitioners? How to promote vertical and horizontal linkages between market actors? Incentives What incentives and how to use them to improve organizational learning about facilitation of inclusive market development? What incentives and subsidies and how to use them smartly to catalyse systemic and sustainable change? Impact Assessment How to assess impact of learning processes within development orgs. who are striving to become facilitators of inclusive market dev.? How to assess impacts of facilitation on the strategies and activities of market actors? How to assess impacts of strategies and activities of market actors on their market systems?

bringing real people into the equation through Local Learning Groups (LLGs) and informal meetings

concrete initiatives to change the world
The MaFI-festo Dialogues working with the donor community to promote facilitation-friendly rules and principles in inclusive market development ( http://slidesha.re/mafifesto2 )
The Complexity Dialogues bringing complexity experts and market facilitators together to introduce complexity science into the practices and policies of inclusive market development

how to participate and benefit
Become a committed member: http://svy.mk/applytomafi
Become a MaFI-cionado: http://on.fb.me/fbpagemafi
Follow MaFI on Twitter: https:// twitter.com/marketfacil
Use MaFI-licious; an ever-growing bibliography of online resources used by MaFI experts: http://delicious.com/marketfacil
Use MaFI’s knowledge products on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/marketfacil
Comments or questions? Contact MaFI facilitator Lucho Osorio at [email_address]

be part of the people who are making markets work to end poverty at scale using facilitation… be part of MaFI is a joint initiative of the SEEP Network and the Livelihoods Network, with the technical support of Practical Action

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Seven Things You Should Know About MaFI

by MaFI (The Market Facilitation Initiative) on Feb 24, 2010

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