https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127275 2026-04-03T22:02:27Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142753.2 System Pathways Measurement Toolkit Gralla, Erica; Downing, Tristan; Blair, Courtney; Goentzel, Jarrod; Russell, Timothy Edward; Wetmore, Finley; Peters, Megan; Wiseman, Michaela; Miles, Jillian; Reinker, Madison; Steinberg, Sophie This toolkit’s purpose is to support the measurement of system status and change in systems-oriented development projects. Measuring change in a market system (or another complex development system) is challenging because of the system’s complexity: it is difficult (1) to know which parts of the system to measure and (2) how to interpret what a collection of diverse measurements tells us about change in the system. To address both of these challenges, the System Pathways Measurement Toolkit relies on a system map to capture the structure and interconnections of the system, then layers measurements onto the system map to enable the collective interpretation of diverse data on wide-ranging parts of the system. Tools are provided to interpret the measured map by zooming in and out to understand the progression of change in the system, diagnose problems and explain success. Guidance is provided in deciding which parts of a complex system to measure and in developing indicators that can be interpreted easily on the map, based on either available or to-be-collected data. 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142804 Feed the Future Uganda Market System Monitoring: HESN Buy-In Reporting Close-Out Addendum Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Blair, Courtney; Russell, Timothy Edward 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142803 Feed The Future Uganda Market System Monitoring: Final Report Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Blair, Courtney; Russell, Timothy Edward 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142795 Draft Methodology for Measuring Change in Market Systems Blair, Courtney; Gralla, Erica; Goentzel, Jarrod; Wetmore, Finley; Peters, Megan This document provides a brief overview of a methodology for measuring change in market systems. It describes a cycle of steps that enable the development, validation, use, and adaptation of a set of indicators for measuring system change. The following are included: • methodology description; • application of the methodology to the financial subsystem, including development of specific indicators; and • application of the methodology to explore the regulatory subsystem’s impact on other areas, including development of specific indicators. 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142793 Farmer Survey Data Collection Training Manual by RWI Blair, Courtney; Russell, Timothy Edward; Goentzel, Jarrod Training Report by RWI for data collection of farmer data that CPMA had been managing and MSM took on as an additional task. 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142791 Value Chain Relationship Study Memo Gralla, Erica; Peters, Megan The purpose of this study is to understand how to measure relationships, learn the (perceived) value actors gain from relationships, and identify the key dimensions of relationships that enable economic value. This will ultimately provide an approach for measuring relationships, e.g. indicators, an understanding of actor perceptions on relationship value (can be used for incentive design, e.g.), and as a follow-on, estimates of the value of different types/dimensions of agricultural supply chain relationships in Uganda. 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142789 Postmortem on Recent Experiments with E-verification in Uganda's Seed Sector Blair, Courtney; Gralla, Erica; Goentzel, Jarrod This analysis is based on interviews conducted in June-July 2018 with selected seed companies, input dealers, industry representatives, USAID personnel, private sector participants, and a few additional stakeholders. Though not intended to be a fully rigorous analysis, these interviews shed some light on the recent experience with e-Verification programs in Uganda and the challenges that these programs faced. This debrief reflects the opinions expressed by select industry stakeholders. If desired, a more thorough post-mortem would require a formal survey of all input companies participating in e-Verification (including both seed and agricultural chemicals), as well as conversations with government officials and additional private sector participants. A broad survey of farmers and input dealers who were impacted by the programs would also be recommended. Our conversations focused specifically on maize seed, as maize was one of the priority crops for Feed the Future Uganda and given that e-verification faced some of its biggest challenges with maize seed. Indeed, the e-verification labels are still being used for vegetable seed in Uganda, which is almost exclusively imported, and certain agricultural chemicals, but are no longer widely used on maize seed packages. 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142786 Uganda Agricultural Market Systems Workshop Summary Report Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Blair, Courtney; Russell, Timothy Edward; Picchione, Katherine; Miles, Jillian; Reinker, Madison; Peters, Megan In seeking to better understand Uganda’s agricultural market systems, working with partners to co-design programs which address bottlenecks, seize opportunities, and achieve systemic change, in support of the Government of Uganda’s Second National Development Plan, USAID hosted a three-day workshop March 15 - 17th, 2017 where 168 participants and presenters explored a market systems approach and developed a pipeline of actionable opportunities and challenges to inform future programming. From the workshop, USAID and its partners have produced seven actionable outputs that will inform investments and partnership opportunities moving forward: 1. A revised set of Uganda’s Agricultural Market Systems map was created, represented by ten subsystems: agro-processing, financial and business services; Production, Post-Harvest Handling and Storage; Human Resources; Inputs Importing & Manufacturing; Input Distribution; Farmer Practices; Commodity Distribution; Regulatory Environment; and Extension Services (Annex 1Uganda’s Agricultural Market Systems Overview Map). 2. Individual participant organizations identified the needed behaviors, ideal relationships and necessary conditions they believed were most important to drive change in the system. This is represented in the Behaviors, Relationships, and Conditions findings found in Annex 2. 3. Data knowns and unknowns were identified by individual participants to catalogue what is already out there and what still needs to be analyzed and commissioned for research (Annex 3Data). 4. All 168 participants “placed” themselves in Uganda’s agricultural market system, through the mapping exercise. This gives all participants a view into what actors are connected to them, both in the room and in the larger marketplace, what behaviors exhibited by what actors exert an influence on them, and what other actors and parts of the system they influence themselves. 5. Having identified areas for intervention and investment through the mapping exercises, a list of participant-identified “Opportunities and Challenges” was created by thematic area (Annex 5Opportunities and Challenges). Narratives supporting the conversations had around opportunities and challenges in these various thematic areas are also included in Annex 6 Narrative Summaries of Thematic Areas Opportunities and Challenges. 6. A participant vote tally on the relative importance of each thematic area. While not providing data to quantify the actual importance or weight of each area, this tally does provide a useful stock-taking or “temperature check” on how to prioritize investments, at least according to the 168 participants in the workshop (Annex 7 Thematic Areas with Participant Votes). 7. A reflection by workshop participants on what different kinds of actors need to start and stop doing to drive systemic change. Again, while not providing an analytically rigorous assessment of what actually needs to happen, this exercise provides a useful view into actor’s perspectives of other actors that they relate to the system (Annex 8 Start and Stop Exercise). 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142766 Draft Seed Sector Memos Blair, Courtney; Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142765 Ugandan Health System Mapping Gralla, Erica; Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Steinberg, Sophie 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142764 BRC Mapping Approach Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Peters, Megan; Russell, Timothy Edward; Blair, Courtney; Reinker, Madison; Miles, Jillian The Behaviors, Relationships, and Conditions (BRC) mapping approach is a way of diagramming complex systems in an intuitive and flexible way. Market conditions, actor behaviors, and inter-actor relationships are depicted within shapes that are connected by arrows. Arrows directionally indicate that one behavior, relationship, or condition enables another to occur. In complex systems, related activities can be grouped into subsystems to facilitate analysis. 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142763 Understanding Smallholder Access to Finance Gralla, Erica; Blair, Courtney; Wetmore, Finley System maps can be invaluable tools for organizing and visualizing data. As demonstrated here, adding data to the system map for agricultural finance made it easier to identify three important insights about the system, based on the status of key pathways. The data overlaid on the map was particularly critical in showing that physical access to loans was not, as many assumed, the primary barrier to greater uptake of agricultural loans . The map showed moderate and increasing access, yet loan uptake had not increased accordingly. Overlaying diverse data sets on a depiction of causal pathways was critical to noticing and “debunking” this commonly held assumption. The map could further be used to identify barriers to change and potential areas for investment, both of which serve to generate actionable recommendations for development practitioners to achieve various key system outcomes. 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142762 Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders Picchione, Katherine; Goentzel, Jarrod; Russell, Timothy Edward; Gralla, Erica The USAID Uganda Feed the Future Value Chain (FTF-VC) project uses a market facilitation approach to strengthen the value chains that serve smallholder farmers in Uganda. One of the goals is to improve profitability for farmers and other value chain actors by enabling improved quality and prices throughout the value chain. In a system where actors value quality and are willing to pay more for better products, farmers have the incentive to engage in practices to improve crop quality. To achieve a market for quality products, actors throughout the supply chain should offer and have access to quality-differentiated pricing (QDP). This study addresses a gap in understanding the factors that affect an actor’s ability to access and incentives to extend QDP. Key Takeaways: • QDP strengthens agricultural market systems by creating incentives to improve crop quality, leading to increased revenue. • Interventions to improve crop quality and formalize price setting are likely to help institutionalize QDP. • QDP should be further investigated in Uganda to understand its extent and drivers. • Market facilitation projects should encourage reinforcing behaviors that propagate QDP throughout the value chain. 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142761 Inputs Subsystem Study Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Blair, Courtney; Russell, Timothy Edward; Picchione, Katherine; Peters, Megan; Miles, Jillian; Reinker, Madison The USAID Uganda Feed the Future Value Chain (FTF-VC) project uses a market facilitation approach to impact the value chains that serve smallholder farmers in Uganda. This study focuses on the “inputs subsystem”: the part of the value chain that enables farmers to access inputs such as fertilizer and seeds. We aimed to understand whether and to what extent expected changes were occurring in the last four years of FTF-VC work by asking “How has the inputs “subsystem” been changing over time?” We focus on changes in key behaviors and relationships targeted by the FTF-VC project, and how they have manifested in three types of actors (see Figure 1): wholesalers and input dealers (or “agrodealers”), farmers, and output value chain actors (such as collectors / village agents or traders) who are involved in the inputs value chain. Key Recommendations: Feed the Future Uganda should • Investigate barriers to adoption by input wholesalers/dealers of a mindset focusing on delivering greater value to customers • Examine how output actors selling inputs affects the inputs value chain Market facilitation projects should • Design monitoring strategies that address both the need for longitudinal data and the need for widespread, adaptive measurement • Understand and account for delays in reaping benefits of changes 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142760 Market System Maps v1.0 Release Notes Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Picchione, Katherine; Peters, Megan; Miles, Jillian; Reinker, Madison; Russell, Timothy Edward 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142759 Market System Monitoring Activity Overview Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Gralla, Erica; Russell, Timothy Edward; Peters, Megan 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142758 Market System Mapping and Measuring Workshop Report 2016 Goentzel, Jarrod; Russell, Timothy Edward; Gralla, Erica; Peters, Megan 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142757 Farmer Market Engagement Study Survey Tools Blair, Courtney; Goentzel, Jarrod; Russell, Timothy Edward; Picchione, Katherine; Wiseman, Michaela 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142756 Preliminary Findings From Agribusiness Interviews Picchione, Katherine; Blair, Courtney; Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Russell, Timothy Edward; Wiseman, Micaela KEY FINDINGS 1. Small agribusinesses have adopted a spectrum of flexible business models. 2. Information is spread through relationships between market actors. 3. Most businesses rely on personal connections for credit; there is widespread distrust of formal financial institutions 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142755 Uganda Farmer Market Engagement Study Final Report Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Wiseman, Michaela; Gralla, Erica; Steinberg, Sophie; Wetmore, Finley 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142754 Market System Maps v2.0 Release Notes Gralla, Erica; Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Russell, Timothy Edward; Picchione, Katherine; Reinker, Madison; Miles, Jillian; Peters, Megan 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142753 System Pathways Measurement Toolkit Gralla, Erica; Downing, Tristan; Blair, Courtney; Goentzel, Jarrod; Russell, Timothy Edward; Wetmore, Finley; Peters, Megan; Wiseman, Michaela; Miles, Jillian; Reinker, Madison; Steinberg, Sophie 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142752 System Pathways Toolkit Annex Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Downing, Tristan; Russell, Timothy Edward; Wetmore, Finley; Gralla, Erica; Peters, Megan 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142738 System Pathways Workshop Template Downing, Tristan; Russell, Timothy Edward; Blair, Courtney; Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Wetmore, Finley 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133062 System Pathways Mapping Toolkit Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Gralla, Erica; Wetmore, Finley; Wiseman, Michaela; Peters, Megan; Downing, Tristan; Russell, Timothy Edward 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131193 Using Kumu: A Primer Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Wetmore, Finley; Downing, Tristan Kumu is an online system mapping tool used by the Market System Monitoring Activity to create system maps. Kumu is an online system mapping tool, available at https://kumu.io. It is open-source and free to use, and an excellent platform for creating dynamic, complex system maps that are easy to access and explore. The Karamoja Household Resilience System Map can be viewed at this address: https://kumu.io/MSM/msm-karamoja-household-resilience-system-map. 2021-08-24T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131192 Karamoja Resilience Map: The Basic Elements Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Wetmore, Finley; Downing, Tristan This guide is for interpreting the Karamoja Resilience System Maps, and provides descriptions of the different element types and connections on the system maps 2021-08-24T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131191 Applying System Mapping Techniques to Resilience: Case Study Resilience in Karamoja, Uganda Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Downing, Tristan The creation of the Resilience Map coincided roughly with the creation of the Karamoja Resilience Cluster in USAID. The Resilience Map focuses on Karamoja households and attempts to capture the unique aspects of Karamoja's livelihoods. This work is a key step in merging USAID's development and humanitarian fields, both Feed the Future and Food for Peace, and this map is a tool they use for collaboration. The Karamoja Household Resilience Systems Map was developed from a need to understand better the factors that enable a household to be resilient, specifically the interplay between humanitarian support and access to livelihoods and markets. The previous map created by the MSM team, the Uganda AgriculturalMarket System Map, captured a rough overview of household resilience as part of the broader agriculture market system. However, when it came to activities placing their interventions on the map and identifying important areas, the "Household Resilience" subsystem quickly became overwhelmed. Evidently, household resilience is a key part of the broader system and merits a more nuanced understanding. The creation of the Resilience Map coincided roughly with the creation of the Karamoja Resilience Cluster in USAID. Thus, the Resilience Map would focus on Karamoja households and attempt to capture the unique aspects of Karamoja's livelihoods. This work is a key step in merging the development and humanitarian fields in USAID. Both Feed the Future and Food for Peace activities operate in Karamoja, and the resilience map is a useful tool they can use for collaboration. 2021-08-24T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131190 Karamoja Market System Outbrief: Applying System Mapping to Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation Blair, Courtney; Goentzel, Jarrod; Downing, Tristan System maps can be an essential tool for enabling collaboration, learning, and adaptation (CLA) by USAID Activities. System maps can be an essential tool for enabling collaboration, learning, and adaptation (CLA) by USAID Activities. As part of our work supporting USAID/Uganda, the USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Market System Monitoring (MSM) Activity developed two system maps representing aspects of the agricultural market system in the Karamoja region. In this report, we discuss how these maps can be used by USAID/Uganda’s Karamoja Cluster to identify opportunities for collaboration and adaptation, monitor system change, and develop a learning agenda. We also discuss key system-level insights that can be derived from the system maps. 2021-08-21T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131189 Identifying Pathways to Food Security and Inclusive Growth: Workshop Report Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Gralla, Erica; Russell, Timothy Edward; Wiseman, Michaela; Wetmore, Finley; Peters, Megan The June 2019 Feed the Future Workshop: Identifying Pathways to Food Security and Inclusive Growth was led by the USAID/Uganda Mission and organized by the USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Market System Monitoring Activity. On June 10th, 2019, the USAID/Uganda Mission hosted a workshop for Uganda’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) portfolio, bringing together USAID staff and implementing partners working on Feed the Future, Food for Peace, and resilience programming. The workshop had three main objectives: 1. Bring together the broader group of stakeholders working on the Global Food Security Strategy in order to incorporate resilience programming more formally into the systems approach. 2. Strengthen the group’s collective understanding of USAID’s work on agriculture and food security in Uganda, particularly the opportunities for synergy and collaboration between Feed the Future and Resilience programs. 3. Solicit input from participants on where USAID should invest next: which interventions were working well, and where there were gaps that needed to be filled. The workshop was also designed to provide an introduction to the System Pathways Toolkit, a set of tools for mapping and measuring complex systems developed by the USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Market System Monitoring Activity (MSM). The MSM team organized and facilitated the workshop in consultation with the USAID/Uganda Economic Growth Unit. 2021-08-21T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130906 Mapping Karamoja Cluster High-Level Outcomes: Applying System Mapping Techniques to Understanding Resilience Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Downing, Tristan This document outlines how to use a system map to examine high-level outcomes and their corresponding measures of success. This document is focusing on the Karamoja Cluster, but the methods could be applied to other situations where we are trying to achieve specific goals within a complex system. The document is made up of three sections: finding the High-Level Outcomes on a system map, examining the High-Level Outcomeson a system map, and examining the Measures of Success on a system map. System maps can be used to connect high-level outcomes to the technical details of interventions and show how a complex set of interventions and conditions are needed to achieve these high-level outcomes. This document outlines how to use a system map to examine high-level outcomes and their corresponding measures of success. This document focuses on the Karamoja Cluster, but the methods could be applied to other situations where we are trying to achieve specific goals within a complex system. The document is made up of three sections: 1. Finding the High-Level Outcomeson a system map: We show where the Karamoja Cluster’s high-level outcomes are located on a system map. 2. Examining the High-Level Outcomes on a system map: We take a closer look at one high-level outcome to examine what enables it. 3. Examining the Measures of Success on a system map: We take a closer look at two measures of success for the high-level outcome to examine what enables them and how to infer their status with limited information 2021-06-07T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130894 Using System Maps for CLA: Applying Systems Approaches to International Development Goentzel, Jarrod; Gralla, Erica; Blair, Courtney The USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Market System Monitoring Activity (MSM) is a partnership between the Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Washington University (GW). Our objective is to enable development practitioners to apply systems thinking to their development work. Our tools and approaches are particularly well suited for Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA). Here we provide a brief overview of how system maps can be used for CLA. 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130893 Karamoja Resilience Cluster Workshop: Applying System Mapping Techniques to Resilience Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Downing, Tristan The Karamoja Resilience Cluster was established by USAID to improve collaboration and coordination in the Karamoja region. As of January 2020, it consisted of USAID’s implementing partners working in the districts of Kaabong, Karenga, and Kotido. In January 2020, the Market System Monitoring Activity (MSM) hosted a workshop for the Karamoja Resilience Cluster, with support from the Uganda Learning Activity (ULA). The workshop was attended by representatives of all of USAID’s activities in the districts, along with USAID/Uganda leadership and program staff. This workshop was the first convening of the Cluster and provided participants with an opportunity to understand each other’s work and conceptualize how the Cluster will operate moving forward. 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129417 Karamoja Kumu Mapping Guide Downing, Tristan; Blair, Courtney; Goentzel, Jarrod; Wetmore, Finley This guide is for interpreting the Karamoja Market System Maps, and provides descriptions of the different element types and connections on the system maps 2021-01-13T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127826 COVID-19 Update Report No. 4 (Executive Summary) Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Downing, Tristan This report captures key impacts of COVID-19, and the corresponding government response, on the agriculture market system in Uganda. It is based on our analysis of more than 250 sources, including open-source data, articles, and reports, combined with targeted key informant interviews and insights derived from our system maps. This report provides updates to our previous analysis, as well as a discussion of the impact of COVID-19 on smallholder farmers. We also discuss which components of the agricultural market system should be monitored over the next few months in order to evaluate the impact on the system moving forward. 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127825 COVID-19 Update Report No. 4 Goentzel, Jarrod; Downing, Tristan; Blair, Courtney This report captures key impacts of COVID-19, and the corresponding government response, on the agriculture market system in Uganda. It is based on our analysis of more than 250 sources, including open-source data, articles, and reports, combined with targeted key informant interviews and insights derived from our system maps. This report provides updates to our previous analysis, as well as a discussion of the impact of COVID-19 on smallholder farmers. We also discuss which components of the agricultural market system should be monitored over the next few months in order to evaluate the impact on the system moving forward. 2020-09-21T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127658 Conducting a Rapid System Assessment Goentzel, Jarrod; Downing, Tristan; Blair, Courtney Nearly all development practitioners work in complex systems, and when a major shock occurs, it is important to understand the impact on the system as quickly as possible. In these situations, system maps serve as vital decision tools, helping practitioners to understand the state of the system after a shock (or throughout a prolonged shock) and to assess the feasibility and appropriateness of different intervention options. The USAID/Uganda Market System Monitoring Activity has developed tools for practitioners to apply systems thinking to a diverse set of sectors and systems. Our system maps are built around an intuitive framework of behaviors, conditions, and relationships. They allow practitioners to visualize complex systems, track how the systems adapt and transform, and measure how change propagates through the system. To learn more about creating system maps, please contact the MSM team. This document explains how to use a system map to conduct a rapid assessment of the impact of a particular shock on a system. We have also created an example using a free online system mapping tool, Kumu – links to this example map as well as a guide to the example are provided at the end of the document. 2020-09-21T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127281 COVID-19 Update Report No. 3 Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Downing, Tristan This report captures key impacts of COVID-19, and the corresponding government response, on the agriculture market system in Uganda. This update report focuses on agricultural commodity distribution, particularly wholesaling, transportation, processing, and distribution. It is based on our analysis of open-source information combined with targeted key informant interviews and insights derived from system maps. These assessments will be updated as new information becomes available. 2020-07-20T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127280 COVID-19 Update Report No. 2 Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Downing, Tristan This report captures key impacts of COVID-19, and the corresponding government response, on the agriculture market system in Uganda. This update report discusses the impact on the agricultural inputs supply chain, based on our analysis of open-source information combined with insights derived from system maps. These assessments will be updated as new information becomes available. 2020-06-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127279 COVID-19 Update Report No. 1 Goentzel, Jarrod; Blair, Courtney; Downing, Tristan The preventative measures imposed by the Government of Uganda to curb the spread of COVID-19 are likely to have an impact on various components of the agricultural market system, which could aggregate into broader systemic effects. The Market System Monitoring team is conducting an analysis of the agricultural market system to anticipate the impact of COVID-19 and these preventative measures. This first assessment is based on our previous knowledge of the system, as well as consultations with a few key stakeholders. We will be updating our analysis as we gather more information and as the situation changes. 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127277 Guide to Shock Maps in Kumu Downing, Tristan; Goentzel, Jarrod; Wetmore, Finley; Blair, Courtney To demonstrate how to conduct a Rapid System Assessment, we have created an example based on a notional representation of how COVID-19 could impact income generation in Karamoja, a relatively isolated region of Uganda where households are primarily engaged in agriculture and pastoralism. 2020-09-15T00:00:00Z