The USAID-funded Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) program, administered by ACDI/VOCA, supported programming that fostered inclusive growth through markets. Building on USAID's value chain approach, LEO focused on:

• a systems approach to markets, acknowledging the complex interrelationships among market actors, interconnected value chains, market and household systems, climate change, nutrition, the policy environment, and sociocultural factors, including poverty and gender; and
• inclusion, recognizing the role that a spectrum of actors - from resource-poor households and small-scale enterprises to larger and more formal firms - play in catalyzing market change and growth that benefits the poor.

SEEP served as a learning partner to LEO, facilitating a community of practice on women's economic empowerment, organizing learning events and developing learning products and tools:

• Unpaid Care Work in Market Systems Development: Measurement Practice for Women's Economic Empowerment
• Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: Beyond-Production in Market Systems Programs
• Engaging and Working with Men: Program Insights and Key Considerations for the Agriculture Sector
• Meeting in the Middle: Linking Market Development and Livelihood Support for a More Integrated Approach
• Combining Push and Pull Strategies for Greater Scale and Poverty Outreach

Donor: USAID

Partner: ACDI/VOCA