Step 4: Empowering

Marginalised Actors

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4 Empowering Marginalised Actors Summary
Empowering Marginalised Actors
provides guidance on how to build the
skills of actors who start from a point of
marginalisation so that they can engage
proactively with more powerful and
market savvy actors.
4 Empowering Marginalised Actors Rationale
The empowering marginalised actors
stage will allow you to:
• Prepare marginalised actors to make the PMSD
process work for them
• Build market literacy, dialogue and negotiation
skills in marginalised actors
• Help representatives of marginalised actors to
represent the interests of their peers
effectively in the PMSD process
• Orient more powerful actors to communicate
productively and effectively with marginalised
actors
4 Empowering Marginalised Actors Top Tips
• Focus on developing market literacy, and skills for
representation, mobilisation, dialogue and
negotiation
• Be very clear about how you define “marginalised”
• Make time to analyse who the marginalised actors
within the system actually are
• It is impossible to empower every actor;
instead, engage representatives who can inform and
mobilise their peers
• Keep in mind that you may also need to provide
guidance to more powerful actors on how to work
productively with marginalised actors
4 Empowering Marginalised Actors Guidelines
Download a detailed set of notes describing
our past experiences, recommendations and
action points on how to build the skills of
marginalised actors so that they can engage
proactively with more powerful and market
savvy actors

• Step 4 Guidelines – coming soon!

4 Empowering Marginalised Actors Training
Before you start training practitioners
on how to facilitate workshops, make
sure you have covered the Facilitation Skills
and Attitudes module.
This module enables participants to be more
confident and competent in putting the tools
and principles of PMSD into practice.

• Facilitation Skills Training Materials – Facilitator Guide

• Facilitation Skills Training Materials – Slides

4 Empowering Marginalised Actors Training
Download training materials that can be used
in workshops to train practitioners in how to
empower marginalised actors, through
games, exercises and discussions.

• Step 4 Training Materials – Coming soon!

4 Empowering Marginalised Actors Templates
Download the templates from the empowering
marginalised actors guidelines:

• Step 4 Template – Coming soon!

4 Empowering Marginalised Actors Case Studies
Read case studies of how other projects have
empowered market actors:

• Young Rural Entrepreneurs in Peru

• Making Markets Work in Bangladesh

4 Empowering Marginalised Actors

• Coming soon!
Further Resources
4 Empowering Marginalised Actors The Roadmap
1 Market System Selection

2 Preliminary Mapping and Analysis

3 Strategic Design and Planning

4 Empowering Marginalised Actors

5 Engaging Key Actors

6 Participatory Market Mapping

7 Participatory Planning

8 Facilitating Change

9 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

10 Communicating Evidence for Uptake