Demystifying Market Systems Resilience

Event Information
Market systems programming seeks to make markets more competitive, inclusive, and resilient. Recent advances in concepts for how to define and assess market systems resilience push the boundaries of traditional market measures. A first step is thinking through risk analysis to help demystify the concept of market systems resilience and present considerations for how to move forward.
On May 20th, join Marketlinks, Agrilinks and speakers Kristin O'Planick and Tatiana Pulido to learn more about what USAID's Bureau for Resilience and Food Security means by market systems resilience, why it matters for our programming, and what tools are currently available to support measurement.
Pre-Reading: Check out the Market Systems Resilience Measurement Resources tool page.
Speakers
Kristin O'Planick

Market Systems Specialist
USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
Kristin O'Planick is a Market Systems Specialist in USAID's Bureau for Resilience and Food Security where she seeks to advance market systems facilitation throughout the Feed the Future portfolio. Previously, in USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, & Environment, she assisted market systems, enterprise development, and youth employment programs. She also managed Marketlinks.org, the Trade & Competitiveness Activity, and the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project. With nearly two decades of international development experience across all geographic regions, Ms. O'Planick has worked in a variety of technical areas including market systems, enterprise and livelihoods development, workforce, food security, agribusiness, rural finance, and sustainable tourism. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea. Ms. O'Planick earned an MBA with distinction from the Johnson School at Cornell.
Tatiana Pulido

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
Tatiana Pulido supports Central Asia, Rwanda, and Feed the Future programming. Ms. Pulido also manages the $50 million USAID/Bureau of Resilience and Food Security Feed the Future M&E contract, FTF FEEDBACK, as well as a grant to IFPRI for impact evaluation work. She is the M&E technical advisor on metrics for market systems approaches to development and authored several guidance pieces on monitoring and evaluation for market systems development. She has worked in agriculture/food security for seven years. Ms. Pulido has a B.A. with honors from Brown University and an M.Sc. from Georgetown University.