2012 Experience Summit: Elizabeth Dunn summarizes the importance of value chains
Channel: John Smith
Date: 20/12/2012

Elizabeth Dunn, of Impact, LLC, wrote a paper entitled "Facilitating Systemic Change in Value Chains." Her paper summarizes USAID's work in value chains. Dunn states that understanding market systems, its actors, and the relationships between them ultimately leads to an enabling environment. She then proposes a need to make an investment in changing the way USAID evaluates systems--to be flexible as programs evolves, to better express theory of development and change, to establish feedback loops, and to prepare for unanticipated outcomes. For more information on this year's Experience Summit visit http://kdid.org/events/experience-summit.