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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