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Using a Market Systems Resilience Lens to Support Household Resilience
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This brief focuses on how resilience practitioners can use an MSR lens to leverage market systems to deliver linkages that can benefit households before, during, and after a shock or stress, strengthening resilience and household-level outcomes. Three key market-driven sources of resilience are discussed with examples from actual activities: protection and recovery, generating cash, and improving a household's longer-term risk management capacity.
Key Takeaways
- Household level resilience capacities and development outcomes can be strengthened through applying a market systems resilience lens.
- Market systems directly benefit households; thus, it is important to also consider the resilience of these systems to help households to manage risks and support recovery.
- Market systems also play a critical role in supporting households to generate cash to better manage shocks and stresses.
- As economic growth occurs, markets are better equipped to integrate households and can provide better risk management solutions by sharing risks at a higher level.