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Resilient Market Systems Standards: A Compendium for Practitioners

CARE’s newly developed Resilient Market Systems Compendium is a practitioner’s guide to designing and implementing women’s economic development programs in crisis contexts. Pulling together experiences from around the world, and particularly the MENA region, that demonstrate strengthened Resilient Market Systems and brought positive changes for women experiencing different types of crisis and how you can use this tool elsewhere across the CARE family.

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