A resilient market system is able to withstand, react and transform in the face of shocks and stressors, so that the system is more sustainable, scalable, inclusive and autonomous.

1. Entrepreneurs
are everywhere
Market Systems Symposium 2020:
Evolution of the Market Systems
Resilience Index (MSRI)

2. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v1.0
Construction Use

3. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v1.0
− Semi-annual household
survey
− Annual market actor survey &
detailed enterprise case
studies
− HCD Deep dive rapid market
assessments
− Systemic Change Tracker
(SCT)
− Secondary sources (i.e.,
business chambers)
Various Data Sources Consensus Methodology

4. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v2.0
Wholesalers
Input Suppliers
Households
Individuals
Exporters
Market Agents
Civil Society Org
#1) Conduct a Market Systems
assessment to identify all relevant
market actors and their relationships.

5. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v2.0
Wholesalers
Input Suppliers
Households
Individuals
Exporters
Market Agents
Civil Society Org
#2) Identify which types market actors
will be theoretically changing from the
project’s interventions.

6. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v2.0
Wholesalers
Input Suppliers
Households
Individuals
Exporters
Market Agents
Civil Society Org
MSRI Module:
Market Agents
MSRI Module:
Input Suppliers
MSRI Module:
Households
#3) Deploy MSRI data modules
composed of mandatory & optional
questions for each ‘type’ of actor.

7. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v2.0
Wholesalers
Input Suppliers
Households
Individuals
Exporters
Market Agents
Civil Society Org
MSRI Module:
Market Agents
MSRI Module:
Input Suppliers
MSRI Module:
Households
Mandatory Quantitative
Responses
#4) Combine mandatory question
responses from all of the Modules to
calculate Market Systems Resilience.
MSRI

8. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v2.0
Wholesalers
Input Suppliers
Households
Individuals
Exporters
Market Agents
Civil Society Org
MSRI Module:
Market Agents
MSRI Module:
Input Suppliers
MSRI Module:
Households
Mandatory Quantitative
Responses
Optional Quantitative &
Qualitative Responses
#5) Use optional quantitative &
qualitative questions from modules
for other purposes as needed.
Journey
Mapping
Product or
service-delivery
design
MSRI

9. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v2.0
#1) Conduct a Market Systems assessment to identify all relevant
market actors and their relationships.
#2) Identify which types market actors will be theoretically
changing from the project’s interventions.
#3) Deploy MSRI data modules composed of mandatory &
optional questions for each ‘type’ of actor.
#4) Combine mandatory question responses from all of the
Modules to calculate Market Systems Resilience.
#5) Use optional quantitative & qualitative questions from
modules for other purposes as needed.
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5

10. Market Systems Resilience Indicator v2.0
￫ CSISA-MEA Mechanized Agriculture Project in
Bangladesh, funded by USAID
￫ SUCHANA Nutrition and Livelihoods Project in
Bangladesh, funded by USAID
￫ Farmer Resilience & Rebuilding Initiative (FRRI) in
Mozambique, funded by multiple donors including
SDC, Sida, USAID, LDSC
￫ CSmart in Cambodia, funded by New Zealand MFAT
Projects where iDE is embedding MSRI into
adaptive management

11. Farmer Resilience and Rebuilding Initiative (FRRI)
Interventions that we
know we are going to
do.
Interventions that we
need to figure out.
Ongoing Measurement
and Adaptive
Management.
Time
M&E + Data for Action + Data for Impact + MSRI
FBAs + ITTFs + ECPAs + NTT + TECH
Market
Analysis +
RMAs + MSRI
learnings
USAID-
BFF
FRAME
World
Bank
SDC
Cross-cutting themes.
Gender + Resilience + Private Sector Engagement

12. Farmer Resilience and Rebuilding Initiative (FRRI)
WB-FAMMA
SMART
USAID-BFF
FRAME
SDC
WB-ECPA
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Final
Evaluation
Preliminary
Results
Mid-term
Evaluation
MSRI
Learnings
MSRI
Learnings

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iDE - SUCHANA | Market Systems Resilience Index (MSRI)
Project Context
Suchana is a multi-sectoral nutrition program which aims to reduce undernutrition leading to stunting in children under two years of
age. Suchana adopts an integrated approach to interventions that are nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive and aims to develop a
sustainable and replicable model that can be scaled. iDE is providing technical advisory services related to strengthening market
linkages and capacity building of the consortium partners on market-based approaches.
Shocks that Tool was Designed For
➢ Climate-related shocks - flash floods and prolonged rainfall, landslides
➢ Economic shocks - changes in regulatory environment, macroeconomic shocks
Definition of Market Systems Resilience
“A resilient market system is able to withstand, react and transform in the face of shocks and stressors
so that the system is more sustainable, scalable, inclusive and autonomous.”
Market Systems Resilience: iDE

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iDE - SUCHANA | Market Systems Resilience Index
Construction of Attributes & Methods
Market Systems Resilience: iDE

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Data & Evidence Sources
￫ Semi-annual household survey
￫ Annual market actor survey & detailed
enterprise case studies
￫ HCD Deep dive rapid market assessments
￫ Systemic Change Tracker (SCT)
￫ Secondary sources (i.e., business chambers)
Market Systems Resilience: iDE

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iDE - SUCHANA | Market Systems Resilience Index
Use of the MSRI
Market Systems Resilience: iDE
Consensus-based methodology done through annual scoring into a user-friendly,
composite index, by project staff

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iDE - SUCHANA | Market Systems Resilience Index
Use of the MSRI
Market Systems Resilience: iDE

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iDE - SUCHANA | Market Systems Resilience Index
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths:
🜂 Easy to understand & visually appealing
🜂 Flexible for multiple data inputs
🜂 Consensus-based methodology led to shared
understanding of needs and definitions
🜂 Low-cost so long as existing M&E plan is strong
🜂 User-friendly adaptive-management tool
🜂 Customizable for different sectors, geographies and
actors
Weaknesses:
🜄 Not a tool for causal inference but adaptive management
& self-monitoring
🜄 Requires significant customization
🜄 Requires a specified systems boundary for each
sector/value chain that is understood by participants.
🜄 Missing a clear measurement of shocks or risk factors to
tie resilience measure of the system related to actual
shocks.
Market Systems Resilience: iDE