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Summary Recording Resources The session was divided in two segments. During the first segment Elissa Miolene engaged Larry Cooley, Isabel Guerrero, and Johannes Lin in a conversation about the progress with scaling over the last decade, what is getting in the way of change, what we learn from students today whom we teach about scaling, and what lessons are to [...]
Summary Recording Resources After being dormant for a few years, the Nutrition Working Group re-launched with a discussion on scaling nutrition interventions, focusing on the private sector. Charlotte Lane set the stage, challenging the status quo of hyper-localized, small-scale nutrition initiatives and advocating for a paradigm shift towards large-scale, impactful solutions. Her opening remarks underscored the opportunity to leverage the [...]
Summary Recording Moderator Dr. Ben Cislaghi provided an initial framing on ethical principles and values using four metaphors for framing global health: as a supermarket, a boxing ring, a colony, and/or a juggernaut. Like supermarkets, global health is often focused on selling outputs, such as vaccines. Global health is like a boxing ring because when a product gets on the [...]
Summary Recording Resources The session, moderated by Robert Chase, featured two presentations. In the first presentation, Alastair McKechnie spoke about scaling the basic health services packages in Afghanistan. The second presentation by Pallavi Roy provided bottom-up solutions from Nigeria’s electricity generation sector. Afghanistan Alastair McKechnie explained that in the early 2000s, Afghanistan was emerging from 30 years of war and [...]
Summary Recording Resources With the 2015 formal approval of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.1.1 on education quality, governments are grappling with the most cost effective and sustainable way to measure minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics for children in primary and secondary school. A wide array of reading and math testing tools exist, many of which are too [...]
Summary Recording Resources The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) was established in 2010 by the Government of Tanzania to accelerate public-private partnerships to transform agriculture, boost incomes and improve nutrition in the Southern Highlands, one of the poorest regions of the country. The platform has helped to crowd in private and public investment, driven policy reform, and scaled [...]
Summary Recording Resources Liz Vance, the session moderator, began the session by explaining that green jobs are one of the world’s most rapidly growing occupations: the International Energy Agency projects that adopting clean energy technologies will generate millions of jobs by 2030, with millions more to retrofit and construct energy-efficient buildings and manufacture new energy vehicles. The World Economic Forum’s 2023 future of jobs report cites [...]
Summary Recording Resources Isabel Guerrero welcomed panelists and participants. She also introduced Colin Christensen, co-chair with Isabel of the Social Enterprise Innovation Working Group. Dan Gregory provided an overview of issues that social enterprises face in the UK and globally. Natalia Agapitova spoke about her many years of supporting social enterprise development in developing countries. Colin shared a case study [...]
Summary Recording Resources M&E Working Group Chair John Floretta began the session by explaining that in recent years, the M&E working group has focused on scaling and sustaining social programs in lower and middle-income country government systems that originated in the non-profit sector. The working group looked at many “outside-in” examples of non-profits (including Educate!, Last Mile Health, Partners in [...]
Summary Recording Johannes Linn introduced the session and the new co-chairs of the Climate Change Working Group, Matt Eldridge and Karin Kemper. Matt highlighted the purpose of the session: bringing together practitioners in the fields of climate and nature investing to highlight practical approaches to scaling private investments in these areas. Emilie Mazzacurati began the discussion by speaking about private [...]
Summary Recording Resources Isabel Guerrero introduced her new book, Scaling Up Development Impact, which offers an analytical framework, a set of practical tools, and adaptive evaluation techniques to accompany the scaling process. She found inspiration for her work in the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), whose movement to organize millions of informal women workers started her journey to understand scaling. Another motivation was [...]
Summary Recording Resources Larry Cooley welcomed participants and introduced the SCoP and its 2023-2024 action-research project, the Initiative on Mainstreaming Scaling in Funder Organizations (Mainstreaming Initiative). Poonam Muttreja, moderator of the session, noted from her experience in India that external funders are often a hindrance to scaling. It is critical for funders to align with national priorities and support national [...]
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Speakers Larry Cooley, Founder and President Emeritus, Management Systems International Johannes Linn, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. Session Materials Summary: Scaling Community of Practice Annual Workshop – Ndidi Nwuneli Scaling Community of Practice: Past and Future – Larry Cooley & Johannes Linn
Moderator Lester Coutinho, Director of Innovation and Learning, DKT Speakers Dr. Charles Holmes, Director, Georgetown Center for Innovation in Global Health Dr. Corine Karema, Interim CEO, RBM Partnership to End Malaria Dr. Jim Ricca, Director of Adaptive Management, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Jhpiego
Moderator Isabel Guerrero, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Imago Global Grassroots Speakers Alvaro Henzler, Co-Founder and President, Mosaico Lab Ernenek Duran, Senior Director of Programs, Latin America, One Drop Foundation Maria Elena Nawar, Advisor, Scaling, Knowledge and Impact Unit at IDB Lab Habiba Ali, Managing Director and CEO, Sosai Renewable Energies Company Nikola Okero, Policy Officer, Food4Education Session Materials The Role […]
Moderator Heather Simpson, Chief Program Officer, Room to Read Speakers Sergio Ramírez-Mena, Chief of Party, All Children Reading Grand Challenge, World Vision Paul Frank, Senior Advisor, SIL LEAD, Inc. Creesen Naicker, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Curious Learning Session Materials Bloom’s Growth Over Time – Paul Frank Curious Learning, Feed the Monster App – Creesen Naicker
Chair George Zedgenidze, Knowledge & Change Management Head, Green Climate Fund Moderator Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution Speakers Vera Songwe, Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Yannick Glemarec, Executive Director, Green Climate Fund Andrew Steer, President and CEO, Bezos Earth Fund Ian Mitchell, Co-Director, Center for Global Development Cooperation in Europe Session Materials Finance for Climate Action: Scaling Up Investment for […]
Moderator John Floretta, Global Deputy Executive Director, J-PAL Speakers Larry Cooley, Founder and President Emeritus, Management Systems International Jasmine Shah, Vice Chairperson of the Dialogue and Development Commission, Government of NCT of Delhi Rachna Chowdhuri, Managing Director for Grants and Impact, Global Innovation Fund Session Materials Measuring Institutionalization of Effective Programs with Governments
Moderator Larry Cooley, Founder and President Emeritus, Management Systems International Speakers Verna Lalbeharie, Executive Director, EdTech Hub Parmesh Shah, Global Lead, The World Bank Dr. Sanjeev Arora, Director, Project ECHO Session Materials Information Technology to Improve Healthcare – Dr. Sanjeev Arora Information Technology to Improve Education – Verna Lalbeharie Information Technology to Improve Agriculture – Parmesh Shah
Moderator Dr. Julie Howard, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies Speakers Eric Gatera, Chief Technical Advisor, Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Rwanda Dr. Stella Mukokha, Principal Research Scientist, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization Tendai Saidi, Head of Programmes and Policy, Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET) Dr. Amos Rutherford Azinu, Founder and CEO, Legacy Crop Improvement Center, Ghana Dr. […]
Moderator Jonathan Papoulidis, Global Director, Food for the Hungry Speakers Alexandra Scott, President, Global Environment and Technology Foundation Jose Neves, Country Lead, Mozambique, Project Last Mile Rushika Shekar, Director, Program Delivery and Operations, Project Last Mile Session Materials Project Last Mile: Public-Private Partnership Applying Coca-Cola Expertise for Health Systems Strengthening Presentation by Alexandra Scott, Jose Neves, and Rushika Shekhar Project […]
Moderator Jessica Ngo, Deputy Chief of Party, Management Systems International Speakers Rebeca De La Vega, Regional Manager, Cisco Hisham Jabi, Founder and CEO, PalTechUS Session Materials The Digital Economy: A Big Opportunity for the Young – Rebecca de la Vega Youth Employment in the Mena Region – Hisham Jabi
Moderator Larry Cooley, President Emeritus, Management Systems International Speakers Verna Lalbeharie, Executive Director, EdTech Hub Parmesh Shah, Global Lead, The World Bank Dr. Sanjeev Arora, Director, Project ECHO
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 – Richard Kohl HPI Fact Sheet […]
Speakers: Richard Kohl, Strategy and Scale Consultant Johannes Linn, Nonresident Fellow at Brookings, Co-Chair of the Scaling CoP Respondents: Santiago Levy, Former Vice President at IADB, former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mexico Ruth Simmons, Professor Emerita at University of Michigan, Member of the CoP’s Executive Committee Charles Kabiswa, Programs Director at Ecological Christian Organization, Uganda Jenny Perlman Robinson, Senior Fellow […]
