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The MSE Resilience Lab

About the MSE Resilience Lab

The MSE Resilience Lab was a knowledge-gathering, -generating, and -sharing platform focused on insights and industry best practices that chart roads to MSE resilience through the use of digital tools, with a focus on women. A robust learning and dissemination agenda guided the work of the Lab, underpinned by a tested MSE Resilience Framework. 

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Objective

The goal of the Lab was to actively pursue, identify, consolidate, and disseminate key learnings from numerous initiatives that support MSE digitalization.It also strived to build an active learning community among multiple stakeholders and shared learnings and other knowledge outputs broadly through various initiatives, including:

  • Strive Mexico MSE Radar
  • Strive Mexico Exploration Series
  • Online knowledge outputs, such as blogs and notes
  • Strategic convenings
  • Public events
  • Webinars

These initiatives were aimed at ecosystem actors to influence how resilience was perceived and valued, and how it could be incorporated into program and policy interventions. Sharing lessons learned with ecosystem players significantly contributed to the collective knowledge of the sector and spurred further innovation to enhance the resilience of MSEs.