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Market Dynamics

Market Dynamics is an emerging field in global development that focuses on market inefficiencies – whether in pricing, distribution, or elsewhere – that cost the global community billions of dollars and prevent millions of individuals globally from achieving access to life-saving products. R4D’s Market Dynamics practice has developed strategies to achieve hundreds of millions of dollars in savings and sustainable availability of high-quality products for nutrition, AIDS, malaria, and neglected diseases treatment and prevention. Read more...

Market Dynamics Resources

Infographic: Micronutrients for All
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Nutrition for a Better Tomorrow: Scaling Up Delivery of Micronutrient Powders for Infants and Young Children

Micronutrient powders have been identified as a low-cost, effective intervention to prevent iron deficiency anemia in infants and small children. A new report from the Results for Development Institute (R4D) examines the landscape of supply- and demand-side challenges facing scaled up delivery of micronutrient powders to millions of vulnerable children.

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Value for Money in LLIN Specifications Guidance

Procurement guidance for ensuring highest value for money from long-lasting insecticde treated bed nets by balancing cost with end-user and program benefits.

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Expanding Access to LLINs: A Global Market Dynamics Approach

On World Malaria Day, the Results for Development Institute (R4D) released a report that identifies strategies to improve the marketplace for long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs). The report is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and authored by R4D Managing Director Kanika Bahl and Program Officer Pooja Shaw. 

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World Malaria Report 2011 - Citing R4D's LLIN Market Dynamics Project

The World Malaria Report 2011 summarizes information received from 106 malaria-endemic countries and a range of other sources. The findings of R4D's LLIN Market Dynamics Project and work by the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) on value for money in malaria programming are sited in the report.

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Global Fund Board-Approved Market Shaping Strategy

In February 2011, the Global Fund’s Market Dynamics Committee (MDC) commissioned R4D to develop concrete strategies which optimized ‘value for money’ across its health commodities portfolio, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS drugs.The resultant recommendations were presented and approved by the Global Fund MDC and Board.

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Executive Summary: Phase II Report for the Global Fund MDC

This report has been produced by Results for Development Institute (R4D) as the output of Phase II of the Market Dynamics Committee (MDC), Market Dynamics Study, focused on developing strategies and recommendations to allow the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) to be a more active market shaper.

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