EVENTS

The Mainstreaming Initiative in collaboration with the Mainstreaming Working Group of the Scaling CoP organizes events to show case the mainstreaming experience of funder organizations.

Mainstreaming Scaling in CGIAR - Insights from IPSR, Portfolio Monitoring, and Scaling for Impact

Mainstreaming Scaling in CGIAR – Insights from IPSR, Portfolio Monitoring, and Scaling for Impact

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session This CGIAR Mainstreaming Scaling Webinar presents three integrated approaches that are shaping how innovation scaling is embedded across CGIAR research and implementation. First, it introduces the Scaling Readiness approached —developed in the late 2010s and now applied to >1000 of CGIAR innovations to clarify scaling intent, assess readiness, identify [...]

Mobilization and Impact at Scale

Mobilization and Impact at Scale

About the sessionAbout the session This hybrid event – co-hosted by AFD and the SCoP – brought together leaders in international development and representatives from public development banks. They discussed the role of public development banks in reshaping the development investment architecture ahead of the Financing for Development 4th conference. The event featured strong calls [...]

Scaling and Best Practices on New Policy Guidance from the OECD Development Assistance Committee

Scaling and Best Practices on New Policy Guidance from the OECD Development Assistance Committee

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Times are turbulent, to put it mildly. Last year, the UN’s Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2024 puts the SDG investment and financing gaps at between USD 2.5 trillion and USD 4 trillion annually. This was evidently before further financing cuts hit the development cooperation sector. Given the [...]

CRS's Experience in Catalyzing Scale Mindset and Organizational Shift

CRS’s Experience in Catalyzing Scale Mindset and Organizational Shift

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description CRS aims to catalyze humanitarian and development outcomes at scale by collaborating with, convening, and accompanying a variety of stakeholders within systems to support local actors to achieve humanitarian and development outcomes that are equitable, inclusive, and at the scale that is appropriate for the size of the [...]

Mainstreaming Scaling with the Syngenta Foundation: Lessons from a Small Agri-Food Foundation

Mainstreaming Scaling with the Syngenta Foundation: Lessons from a Small Agri-Food Foundation

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) is a small foundation based in Basel, Switzerland that develops and scales sustainable innovation in smallholder agri-food systems. SFSA has been primarily an implementing foundation that bridges the gap between research on innovations and their adoption for use by smallholders. SFSA [...]

Mainstreaming Scaling with Grand Challenges Canada

Mainstreaming Scaling with Grand Challenges Canada

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Since inception, Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) has been pursuing a deliberate strategy in the pursuit of sustainable impact at scale. The recently completed case study of GCC's effort to systematically mainstream scaling documents GCC's journey of integrating a scaling perspective into its funding approach to date and its [...]

Mainstreaming Scaling in a Large INGO: The Case of CARE

Mainstreaming Scaling in a Large INGO: The Case of CARE

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description In this session, CARE and scaling partners IDinsight and Geneva Global will provide insight into how CARE has mainstreamed scaling into institutional vision and strategy, and the organization’s ongoing efforts to embed and operationalize the principles, practices and mindsets of scale in its DNA. The panel will discuss: [...]

Scaling IFAD's operations: The route to bigger, better, and sustainable impact

Scaling IFAD’s operations: The route to bigger, better, and sustainable impact

About the sessionRecordingAbout the session Description The event highlighted IFAD's robust framework stemming from decades of experience. The importance of clarity on successful scaling was emphasized, as well as integration into mainstream efforts. Moving forward, alignment between proposals and scaling prospects, coupled with senior management endorsement, is crucial for IFAD's strategic effectiveness. It is concluded [...]

Webinar on Scaling Mainstreaming Guinea Global Fund Program

Webinar on Scaling Mainstreaming Guinea Global Fund Program

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description This webinar reflects on how the Global Fund and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) are investing in national government actors in Guinea to achieve shared scaling goals. The webinar features an introduction to the High Performing Implementers (HPI) Initiative as an example of how CRS and the Global Fund [...]

Scaling built into delivery models

Scaling built into delivery models

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description This webinar focuses on the experience and lessons learned in mainstreaming scaling from HarvestPlus. The HarvestPlus program works across CGIAR as part of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). HarvestPlus fights hunger worldwide by scaling new, climate smart, high yielding, competitive varieties of staple crops that are nutrient enriched, making [...]

Mainstreaming Scaling in Funder Organizations

Mainstreaming Scaling in Funder Organizations

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description GIZ (the German Agency for Development Cooperation) has long been focused on supporting scaling the impact of development programs in partner countries through its funding and technical assistance. In 2016 GIZ developed a guidance document for scaling, and published a brochure with case studies in 2018. During 2022, [...]

Plenary 1: Mainstreaming a Focus on Scale in Funder Organizations

Moderators Larry Cooley, Founder and President Emeritus, Management Systems International Johannes Linn, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Speakers Richard Kohl, Founder, Center for Large Scale Social Change LLC Bridget Bucardo Rivera, Senior Technical Advisor, Catholic Relief Services Julie Howard, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies Session Materials Mainstreaming Scaling in Donors – Johannes Linn Mainstreaming Scaling in Donors – […]