Abstract
ABSTRACT Recent research has highlighted the valuable contributions that participatory processes contribute in developing system dynamics models of value chains with stakeholders. A new participatory process known as spatial group model building (SGMB) expands these insights, using maps and GIS concepts to improve the facilitation and modelling process. This practical note provides an overview of SGMB, its recent applications in informing development interventions, and proposed innovations to expand its use and dissemination.
Highlights
The past decade has witnessed the gradual transformation of value chain research towards a market systems development approach, in which gaining deeper knowledge of the characteristics of the broader market system is of critical importance in generating sustainable, equitable solutions for the poor (Moores and Hunter 2018)
A parallel development within this larger transformation has been the use of system dynamics (SD) as an analytical tool to understand and model the interactions of social, economic, biological, and environmental drivers of value chain dynamics and to quantify the impacts of prospective interventions (Rich et al 2011)
Group model building involves the co-creation of system dynamics models with stakeholders, whose collective knowledge and expertise provide insights on structure and parameters associated with system phenomenon
Summary
The past decade has witnessed the gradual transformation of value chain research towards a market systems development approach, in which gaining deeper knowledge of the characteristics of the broader market system is of critical importance in generating sustainable, equitable solutions for the poor (Moores and Hunter 2018). KEYWORDS Value chains; system dynamics; spatial group model building; Myanmar; Bihar
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