Kevin McKague, Charlene Zietsma, Christine Oliver
Motivated by the question of how to develop viable new markets and value chains in the resource-constrained settings of least developed countries, we adopted multi-year qualitative methods to examine the intervention of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in developing the dairy value chain in Bang...
Kevin McKague, Jennifer F.W. Wong, Nurul Siddiquee
This study explores the potential of social franchising to contribute to the development of the rural entrepreneurial ecosystem in contexts of market and governance failure in least developed countries. Social franchising is a social enterprise business model that provides market coordination and su...
Kevin McKague, Sarah Tinsley
Abstract Purpose – In Bangladesh, 30 percent of the population lives beyond the "last mile" of traditional distribution networks and serving this rural low‐income population with socially useful goods is a huge challenge. The purpose of this paper is to present one of the most innovative and success...
Reajul Chowdhury, Kevin McKague
Background: From 2011 to 2014, a programme aimed to improve sexual and reproductive health practices among adolescent girls was implemented by the non-governmental organization BRAC in partnership with the Government of South Sudan and with funding from the World Bank. The distinctive culture and no...
Sheikh Tariquzzaman, Kevin McKague
Background: The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in South Sudan to be 79 per 100,000 for new sputum smear positive TB and 140 per 100,000 for all forms of TB cases. The case detection rate of 53% for all forms of TB in South Sudan is below the WHO target o...
Kevin McKague, Muhammad Ali Siddiquee
Abstract Laté Lawson-Lartego, director of the economic development unit at CARE USA, who was responsible for developing the initial proposal to work in the dairy sector in Bangladesh, offers a view of CARE’s approach: “A value chain approach is really an exercise in seeing the entire economic and so...
Kevin McKague, Muhammad Ali Siddiquee
Abstract The dairy value chain in Bangladesh has been characterized as fragmented and disconnected with limited trust, which reduces cooperation, coordination, and flows of information. A central objective of CARE’s approach to value chain development, therefore, was strengthening mutually beneficia...
Kevin McKague, Sarah Harrison, Jenipher Musoke
Abstract Background: Health social enterprises are experimenting with community health worker (CHW) models that allow for various income-generating opportunities to motivate and incentivize CHWs. Although evidence shows that improving gender equality contributes to the achievement of health outcomes...
Kevin McKague, Muhammad Ali Siddiquee
Abstract In 2011, CARE began planning to extend its value chain development experience to different agricultural value chains in six countries—Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Malawi, Mali, and Tanzania. CARE’s particular expertise in working with women led them to focus on improving the role and incomes o...
Kevin McKague, Muhammad Ali Siddiquee
Abstract Many of us dream of a world free of poverty, but how can this be realistically achieved, especially for farmers who make up the majority of the world’s poor?1 Traditional aid redistributes resources to many who are in need, but too often falls short of allowing poor producers to increase th...
Kevin McKague, Samantha Morshed, Habibur Rahman
Hathay Bunano ("hand-made" in Bangla), founded in 2004, produces hand-knitted children's toys, both under our own brand, Pebble (www.pebblechild.com) and for international private-label clients around the world.
Kevin McKague, Sarah Harrison, Jenipher Musoke
Abstract Background: Health social enterprises are experimenting with community health worker (CHW) models that allow for various income-generating opportunities to motivate and incentivize CHWs. Although evidence shows that improving gender equality contributes to the achievement of health outcomes...
Kevin McKague, Muhammad Ali Siddiquee
Abstract Productivity, meaning the efficiency of converting inputs into outputs, can be approached in a variety of different ways and at any point in the value chain. For a facilitation organization working at increasing the value created throughout the value chain, however, the focus often turns to...
Kevin McKague, Muhammad Ali Siddiquee
Abstract For smallholder farmers in agricultural value chains, access to productivity enhancing inputs is essential in allowing them to improve the quality and quantity of their production and increase their incomes. Too often, however, poor farmers face multiple constraints—remoteness, lack of infr...
Kevin McKague, Muhammad Ali Siddiquee
In least developed countries, it is often the case that market mechanisms, governments, and companies working on their own are unable to coordinate increased productivity and mutually beneficial exchanges in a value chain. It is in these contexts of market failures and weak state governance that the...