Component	Grade*^	Considerations
1. Describe the development context of your chosen location	10-15%	Have you accurately described the currently developmental situation in the chosen location?
		Does this section lay an effective groundwork for the rest of the report?
		Is it clear what the most pressing development needs are?
		Note: though this is given a relatively small percent of your overall grade, context lays the foundation for the rest of the project; if this part is not done well, it will be very hard to effectively address points 2-5. Hence, this component being done effectively has great bearing on your overall mark.
		Recommendations: Do not make this section too long, as you will need the space for the rest of your report.  Please but important, but supportive, information in appendices.
2. Identify as many market-based interventions as you can in your chosen location AND 3. Does the current suite of interventions effectively address the development needs of your chosen location?	25-40%	Have you identified a reasonable number of interventions, and provided important basic details about them as an appendix?
		Do you make a clear and reasoned assessment of the appropriateness of these interventions?
		In making your assessment, have you avoided the temptation to simply say "do more of everything"?, instead recognizing the trade-offs involved in MBD?
		Is there a clear connection between your evaluation of the interventions and the development needs you identified in component 1?
		Note: Do not stress out about finding every intervention. Given that this is a class project, I am concerned about your general understanding, not fully mapping all interventions.
		Note: These components are considered together, as they are inseparable
4. Critically analyze a sub-set of these interventions to understand how they considered context	20-35%	Have you effectively understood the details of the interventions, including through making intervention diagrams?
		Is there a clear analysis of how these interventions might fit, or not fit, the context?
		Is there clear analysis comparing two of the interventions?
		Have you taken a clear stand, making a reasoned argument, about if the specific interventions seem to appropriately consider the nature of the context?
		Note: I fully understand that this is a class project, and that it can be difficult to find 'full' information on interventions, so do not stress out about finding smaller details about the interventions.  I'm interested in the basics of them; e.g. that they create connections between farmers and urban buyers, not who the urban buyers are, or what the prices are.  That said, if you have these details, great!  Just don't stress about them.
5. Ethics and 'messiness'	20-35%	Does your analysis and points take into consideration the complexity of MBD? I.e., have you avoided making simplistic statements, and instead favoured nuance?
		Have you presented a clear and coherent set of arguments?
		Note: this is by far the most open-ended of the sections. Focus on what you are most passionate about.
Overall quality, including executive summary	10%	Is the report easy to follow? Does it make the reader’s job easy? Are the different sections well connects? Is the writing concise and appropriate?
Bonus	Up to +10%	Are any of the sections of the report clearly outstanding? Has this report gone "above and beyond" in some way?
*Note 1: Ranges are given for grading the different components, for two reasons, both of which are beneficial to students. First, this allows you to put extra thought and effort into the components in which you are most interested. Second, this allows flexibility in the grading, so that you can be rewarded for the components done very well. As a general rule, I will allocate higher percentages to the components on which you spend more of your writing space.
^Note 2: If I have spoken separately with your group about modifying this rubric - most likely because you have a small group size, or a group member dropped the course at a latter date - please remember to include a note in your report about this.  Most likely, we discussed having less emphasis on one of the sections.