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Market Systems Resilience Index-Assessing Market Systems in Sylhet



The Market Systems Resilience Index (MSRI) measures the market's ability to react, withstand, and

change in response to shocks and stressors. Understanding the different needs and vulnerabilities that

households and market actors are required to overcome, can help identify channels through which

effective interventions can be adopted. iDE’s MSRI tool measures the resilience of market systems,

providing an opportunity for adaptive management, and at the same time, enables iDE to develop metrics

to monitor and assess improvement.

The primary goal of using the MSRI tool in Suchana is to examine how

market system factors affect resilience at both the market actor and

household levels in the Northeast region of Bangladesh.

The MSRI tool also provides useful insights and evidence for making policy and programmatic

recommendations to strengthen market systems. MSRI results describe the market system of Sylhet and

Moulvibazar, illustrating that households are more resilient than market actors; that all actors in

Moulvibazar have higher resilience levels than those in Sylhet, and that among market actors, sales

agents and seed retailers have relatively higher resilience scores than other actors.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR FINDINGS

● Low resilience levels among both households and market actors are driven by poor

market system connectivity, translating into weak market Inclusion, Integration and

Collaboration

● Households scored relatively well in market Redundancy and Feedback Loops,

indicating households have multiple options/places to buy or sell products and that

information-sharing processes are in place to ensure effective feedback channels

between buyers and sellers

● Market actors benefit from a relatively effective Enabling Environment and proper

feedback channels; however, counterintuitively, they are constrained by a lack of

Collaboration among competitors and the localised nature of market reach

● For both households and market actors, project Phase 1 unions and villages had

among the lowest resilience scores, which could perhaps be attributed to factors not

captured by the resilience index, such as proximity to cities and municipalities

● Households and market actors have both improved their overall resilience between

the two rounds of MSRI assessment – with market actors exhibiting greater gains –

but there is a notable decline for Phase 2 households and floodplain households

HOUSEHOLDS:

● Resilience levels in households are constrained by poor market system Connectivity, suggesting

low participation of women and systemically excluded groups in the market system, centralised

household decision-making, little involvement from different groups in relevant market processes,

and weak collaboration among actors across value chains.

● Households scored relatively well in market Redundancy and Feedback Loops indicating

households have multiple options/places to buy or sell products, and that feedback systems



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