Since the Scaling Community of Practice was established in 2015 years ago, the global context has shifted radically.
It’s time now to turn our attention urgently to influencing current thinking about the way forward. Building on the experience of a three-year action research program, the SCoP has decided to turn its attention to a 5-year action agenda to align the practices, policies and priorities of governments, funders, innovators and implementers to align with the lessons we have learned about producing sustainable outcomes that match the scale of the development and climate problems they address.
Part 1 of the session will introduce the Scaling Campaign 2026 – 2030 and its key elements. Part 2 will be a panel discussion among global leaders about the relationship of the Campaign to some of today’s most pressing issues. And Part 3 will provide a deep dive to one of the Campaign’s early initiatives in Somalia.
LARRY COOLEY
Larry Cooley is Founder and President Emeritus of Management Systems International and a specialist in managing large system change. He currently serves as Chair of the Governing Council of the Society for International Development and is the author of widely used methodologies for managing policy change, scaling innovation, entrepreneurship development, and results-based management. Larry is an elected Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; a Trustee of Elma Philanthropies; founder and co-curator of the Global Community of Practice on Scaling Development Outcomes, and Co-Chair of its Working Group on Monitoring and Evaluation
ALAN ROBBINS
Alan has played a key role in Devex’s journey from a small start- up to the leading media platform covering global development, health and humanitarian issues. Along with a talented group of editors, reporters, and communicators, he is driving growth and engagement through partnerships with organizations working on the SDGs and social good – aid agencies, major corporations, leading NGOs and everyone in-between. Through events, visual stories, content series, special reports and more, Devex’s award-winning partnerships help drive the development agenda and create awareness on key global issues, from disability inclusive development, to health worker safety, to inclusive food systems and much, much more.
Alan has a graduate degree in international affairs from George Washington University and an undergraduate degree in history and political science from Rutgers University. In his spare time, you can find him reading historical biographies, coaching his sons’ sports teams and adjusting to no longer being the tallest in the family.
NDIDI NWUNELI
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is the President/CEO of the ONE Campaign. Ndidi started her career at McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office and returned to Nigeria in 2000 to serve as the pioneer Executive Director of the FATE Foundation. She is the founder of LEAP Africa, a non-profit committed to developing dynamic, innovative and principled African leaders and African Food Changemakers, which provides support for African entrepreneurs to start and scale resilient and sustainable agribusinesses. She is also the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. and AACE Foods Processing & Distribution Ltd.
Ndidi serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, Chanel Foundation, Stanbic IBTC Group, the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, the Bridgespan Group, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. She has also joined the International Finance Corporation’s Women LEAD Africa Alliance. Ndidi holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting Scholar at Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and an Eisenhower Fellow.
POONAM MUTTREJA
Poonam Muttreja is the Executive Director of the Population Foundation of India and has championed women’s health and rights for over 40 years. She co-conceived the transmedia initiative, “Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon.” Previously, she was the India Country Director at the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation in India for 15 years and co-founded organizations like Ashoka Foundation and Dastkar. Poonam is also affiliated with ActionAid International, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington DC, and is an alumna of Delhi University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She is a regular commentator for prominent media organisations in India and globally.
JORDAN FABYANSKE
Jordan Fabyanske is a senior executive and entrepreneurial leader in the field of social change. As CEO of Integral, Jorden stewards global programming in co-creation and stewardship with global initiative heads.
Previously, Jordan was Chief Program Officer of Dalberg Catalyst and, prior to that, a Partner at Dalberg Advisors and head of the Dalberg Group’s operations globally. At Dalberg, Jordan co-led the firm’s Inclusive Economic Growth service line and Systems Change community of practice, advising leading actors in global development—including foundations, governments, multilateral organizations, NGOs and corporations—on matters of policy, strategy, organizational effectiveness, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and scaling social impact.
An alum of Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz&Co (now PwC – Strategy&), Jordan holds a Master’s degree in international business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics from MIT. When he is not nudging his friends and colleagues to think in terms of systemic, visionary change, Jordan can be found hiking or canoeing with his wife and two children in Minnesota.
ABDIHAKIM AINTE
Abdihakim Ainte is prolific writer and social entrepreneur with strong track record in working with both public and private sector. Before he was appointed to Director of Food Security and Climate Change by Prime Minister of Somalia in April 2024, he was leading and co-founded the first innovation, entrepreneurship and technology Hub called iRise Hub in Somalia with aim of leveraging to unlock social and private capital for economic growth. The Hub raised over 20 million dollars from private, philanthropist and development partners in less than 4 years.
Since assuming his current role, Mr. Ainte has steered Somalia’s climate and food security agenda on the global stage, including leading the country’s participation in COP28 and COP29, where he played a key role in high-level negotiations. His work has focused on building resilience through Country Platforms.
Mr. Ainte previously served as an advisor to the Government of Somalia, UN agencies, international organizations, and think tanks. He holds a BA in Peace and Development Studies from Linnaeus University in Sweden and an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Bristol, UK.
SIMON WINTER
Simon started with RF Catalytic Capital (a public charity supported by Rockefeller Foundation) in August 2025 to lead a new initiative that looks to develop next generation integrated models to deliver resilient food and nutrition security in fragile regions. At the end of 2024, he founded Sustainable Agriculture Foundations’ International Association, to support the legacy Asia and African country organizations spun out of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). He was SFSA Executive Director from 2017 to 2024, during which time SFSA saw a 5-fold increase in pre-commercial smallholder farmers supported. He joined from TechnoServe, where he had been SVP, Development, and led operations in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2015-2017, Simon was a Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. He serves on a range of boards including chair of the Dalberg Trust, the Scaling Community of Practice, and Griffith Foods Sustainability Advisory Council and is an Associate Director of Morphosis (an organization boosting investment in climate adaptation). His earlier career included positions at McKinsey & Co, a Ministry in Botswana, and Barclays Bank. A UK and German citizen, Simon holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, London.
Since the Scaling Community of Practice was established in 2015 years ago, the global context has shifted radically.
It’s time now to turn our attention urgently to influencing current thinking about the way forward. Building on the experience of a three-year action research program, the SCoP has decided to turn its attention to a 5-year action agenda to align the practices, policies and priorities of governments, funders, innovators and implementers to align with the lessons we have learned about producing sustainable outcomes that match the scale of the development and climate problems they address.
Part 1 of the session will introduce the Scaling Campaign 2026 – 2030 and its key elements. Part 2 will be a panel discussion among global leaders about the relationship of the Campaign to some of today’s most pressing issues. And Part 3 will provide a deep dive to one of the Campaign’s early initiatives in Somalia.
LARRY COOLEY
Larry Cooley is Founder and President Emeritus of Management Systems International and a specialist in managing large system change. He currently serves as Chair of the Governing Council of the Society for International Development and is the author of widely used methodologies for managing policy change, scaling innovation, entrepreneurship development, and results-based management. Larry is an elected Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; a Trustee of Elma Philanthropies; founder and co-curator of the Global Community of Practice on Scaling Development Outcomes, and Co-Chair of its Working Group on Monitoring and Evaluation
ALAN ROBBINS
Alan has played a key role in Devex’s journey from a small start- up to the leading media platform covering global development, health and humanitarian issues. Along with a talented group of editors, reporters, and communicators, he is driving growth and engagement through partnerships with organizations working on the SDGs and social good – aid agencies, major corporations, leading NGOs and everyone in-between. Through events, visual stories, content series, special reports and more, Devex’s award-winning partnerships help drive the development agenda and create awareness on key global issues, from disability inclusive development, to health worker safety, to inclusive food systems and much, much more.
Alan has a graduate degree in international affairs from George Washington University and an undergraduate degree in history and political science from Rutgers University. In his spare time, you can find him reading historical biographies, coaching his sons’ sports teams and adjusting to no longer being the tallest in the family.
NDIDI NWUNELI
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is the President/CEO of the ONE Campaign. Ndidi started her career at McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office and returned to Nigeria in 2000 to serve as the pioneer Executive Director of the FATE Foundation. She is the founder of LEAP Africa, a non-profit committed to developing dynamic, innovative and principled African leaders and African Food Changemakers, which provides support for African entrepreneurs to start and scale resilient and sustainable agribusinesses. She is also the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. and AACE Foods Processing & Distribution Ltd.
Ndidi serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, Chanel Foundation, Stanbic IBTC Group, the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, the Bridgespan Group, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. She has also joined the International Finance Corporation’s Women LEAD Africa Alliance. Ndidi holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting Scholar at Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and an Eisenhower Fellow.
POONAM MUTTREJA
Poonam Muttreja is the Executive Director of the Population Foundation of India and has championed women’s health and rights for over 40 years. She co-conceived the transmedia initiative, “Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon.” Previously, she was the India Country Director at the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation in India for 15 years and co-founded organizations like Ashoka Foundation and Dastkar. Poonam is also affiliated with ActionAid International, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington DC, and is an alumna of Delhi University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She is a regular commentator for prominent media organisations in India and globally.
JORDAN FABYANSKE
Jordan Fabyanske is a senior executive and entrepreneurial leader in the field of social change. As CEO of Integral, Jorden stewards global programming in co-creation and stewardship with global initiative heads.
Previously, Jordan was Chief Program Officer of Dalberg Catalyst and, prior to that, a Partner at Dalberg Advisors and head of the Dalberg Group’s operations globally. At Dalberg, Jordan co-led the firm’s Inclusive Economic Growth service line and Systems Change community of practice, advising leading actors in global development—including foundations, governments, multilateral organizations, NGOs and corporations—on matters of policy, strategy, organizational effectiveness, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and scaling social impact.
An alum of Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz&Co (now PwC – Strategy&), Jordan holds a Master’s degree in international business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics from MIT. When he is not nudging his friends and colleagues to think in terms of systemic, visionary change, Jordan can be found hiking or canoeing with his wife and two children in Minnesota.
ABDIHAKIM AINTE
Abdihakim Ainte is prolific writer and social entrepreneur with strong track record in working with both public and private sector. Before he was appointed to Director of Food Security and Climate Change by Prime Minister of Somalia in April 2024, he was leading and co-founded the first innovation, entrepreneurship and technology Hub called iRise Hub in Somalia with aim of leveraging to unlock social and private capital for economic growth. The Hub raised over 20 million dollars from private, philanthropist and development partners in less than 4 years.
Since assuming his current role, Mr. Ainte has steered Somalia’s climate and food security agenda on the global stage, including leading the country’s participation in COP28 and COP29, where he played a key role in high-level negotiations. His work has focused on building resilience through Country Platforms.
Mr. Ainte previously served as an advisor to the Government of Somalia, UN agencies, international organizations, and think tanks. He holds a BA in Peace and Development Studies from Linnaeus University in Sweden and an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Bristol, UK.
SIMON WINTER
Simon started with RF Catalytic Capital (a public charity supported by Rockefeller Foundation) in August 2025 to lead a new initiative that looks to develop next generation integrated models to deliver resilient food and nutrition security in fragile regions. At the end of 2024, he founded Sustainable Agriculture Foundations’ International Association, to support the legacy Asia and African country organizations spun out of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). He was SFSA Executive Director from 2017 to 2024, during which time SFSA saw a 5-fold increase in pre-commercial smallholder farmers supported. He joined from TechnoServe, where he had been SVP, Development, and led operations in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2015-2017, Simon was a Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. He serves on a range of boards including chair of the Dalberg Trust, the Scaling Community of Practice, and Griffith Foods Sustainability Advisory Council and is an Associate Director of Morphosis (an organization boosting investment in climate adaptation). His earlier career included positions at McKinsey & Co, a Ministry in Botswana, and Barclays Bank. A UK and German citizen, Simon holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, London.
