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 h ousehold 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

Donor: USAID

Partner: ACDI/VOCA