From Assessment to Action. How to design and implement interventions using the Approach to Inclusive Market Systems (AIMS) for Refugees and Host Communities

The core of this course is to accompany and support prospects implementing partners and practitioners in designing and implementing market-based interventions in forced displacement settings through interactive webinars and workshops. OBJECTIVES The specific objectives of the training are to: 1. Disseminate knowledge, good practices and practical tools to the humanitarian development-peace community with a focus on creating sustainable and inclusive growth in contexts with displaced populations; 2. Improve the capacities of practitioners on the design and implementation of market based interventions; 3. Develop a network of practitioners to enable discussion and the sharing of lessons learned from interventions across a diverse range of markets and displacement situations. CONTENTS The training programme consisted of an introductory session on the AIMS approach followed by four training sessions and a set of three workshops where experts collaborate with project teams to guide them through the intervention design and implementation processes at strategic points. The training was delivered by a multi-disciplinary faculty from the ILO and ITC-ILO and combined technical content with applied learning methodologies, such as group discussion and exercises. In particular, the participant covered the following topics during the training programme: • The ILO’s approach to Market Systems Development (MSD) in forced displacement settings; • Overview of the AIMS approach and introduce participants to a framework for moving from assessment to action; • How to design of “push” and “pull” interventions based on value chain analyses; • Brokering and negotiating partnerships, how to provide concrete guidance on market facilitation, procurement, and collaboration with humanitarian actors; • How to implement, adapt and scale market-based interventions, with an emphasis on adaptive management.