Vietnam: Making Markets Work Better for the Poor – Phase II Design

The Policy Practice provided a staff member (Alex Duncan) to join a team led by DFID to review the lessons learned by the first phase of the Making Markets Work Better for the Poor Programme, and to design a second phase. The programme had made a good start, and the team designed a second phase which built on the strong research focus of the first phase, but gave greater emphasis to operationalising the approach and to promoting new investments in market chains.