About The Global Community of Practice on Scaling Development Outcomes
The Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP) was founded six years ago by Larry Cooley and Johannes Linn. The purpose of the CoP is to provide a platform for knowledge exchange among experts and practitioners on approaches to scaling up development interventions, for developing partnerships, and for championing the idea that scaling up development impact is critical for achieving global development aspirations, such as the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change aspirations.
Interest in scaling has greatly increased over these six years. The CoP has now more than 700 members from over 200 institutions (including bilateral and multilateral development organizations, operating NGOs, grant making foundations, universities and think tanks) and from many different sectoral and thematic areas of professional expertise.
The CoP has organized four annual two-day in-person workshops in the Washington Metropolitan Area and currently operates nine sectoral and thematic Working Groups (education, health, agriculture, nutrition, social enterprises, youth employment, climate change, fragile states, and monitoring and evaluation) each of which meets virtually three times a year, as well as in-person during past CoP workshops.
The CoP has issued eighteen Newsletters to date, sharing news about scaling up research and practice from the Working Groups, from CoP members, and from the broader development community. Three years ago, an Executive Committee was formed from among the membership. Management Systems International (MSI) has generously provided administrative and logistical support since the establishment of the CoP.
There is strong support among the membership for the continuation and strengthening of the CoP. The CoP receives financial and in-kind support from a number of organizations and individuals, which has allowed it to host its annual workshop, invite and support southern participants, and develop and support a website.
For more information, please contact [email protected].
Executive Committee of the Scaling Up CoP
Founder and Co-Curator of the CoP
Founder and President Emeritus at MSI, A Tetra Tech Company
Larry Cooley
Co-Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Development Working Group
Senior Program Manager at USAID
Mark Huisenga
Co-Chair of the Climate Change Working Group
Senior Program Officer, Development Policy and Finance, Gates Foundation
Matt Eldridge
Co-Chair of the Education Working Group
Chief Program Officer at Room to Read
Heather Simpson
Co-Chair of the Fragile States Working Group
Global Director, Fragility and Resilience, Food for the Hungry
Jonathan Papoulidis
Co-Chair of the Health Working Group
Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mojisola Odeku
Co-chair of the M&E Working Group
Managing Director for Grants and Impact at the Global Innovation Fund
Rachna Chowdhuri
Co-Chair of the Nutrition Working Group
Bertha Lilian Munthali
Co-Chair of the Social Enterprise Working Group
Director of Imago Global Grassroots
Isabel Guerrero
Sustaining Member of the CoP: AFD
Financial Innovation Manager at AFD
Eric Beugnot
Sustaining Member of the CoP: Co-Impact
Director of Learning, Measurement, and Evaluation, Co-Impact
Varja Lipovsek
Sustaining Member of the CoP: Lever for Change
Vice President of Social Impact and Founding Member at Lever for Change
Kristen Molyneaux
Founder and Co-Curator of the CoP
Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution
Johannes Linn
Co-Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Development Working Group
Frank Place
Co-Chair of the Climate Change Working Group
Karin Kemper
Co-Chair of the Education Working Group
Chief of Party, USAID/MENA TALEEM at MSI
Lisa Slifer-Mbacke
Co-Chair of the Fragile States Working Group
Associate Professor and Research Director at SOAS University of London
Pallavi Roy
Co-chair of the Mainstreaming Working Group
Director for Scaling, Innovations for Poverty Actions (IPA)
Karla Petersen O’Farrill
Co-Chair of the M&E Working Group
Global Deputy Executive Director at J-PAL
John Floretta
Co-Chair of the Nutrition Working Group
Alfred Ejeme
Co-Chair of the Youth Employment Working Group
President & CEO, Jabi Consulting
Hisham Jabi
Sustaining Member of the CoP: GIZ
Advisor, Competence Center “Innovation, Learning, Knowledge Management”, GIZ
Mara Holzenthal
Sustaining Member of the CoP: Lincoln Institute
President and CEO at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
George McCarthy
Sustaining Member of the CoP: Gates Foundation
Senior Program Officer at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Christine Galavotti
Co-Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Development Working Group
Senior Advisor for the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Julie Howard
Co-Chair of the Agriculture & Rural Development Working Group
Scaling Catalyst at CIMMYT
Lennart Woltering
Co-Chair of the Education Working Group
Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Integrated International (INTEGRATED)
Nedjma Koval
Co-Chair of the Fragile States Working Group
Social Protection and Jobs Manager, Africa Region at World Bank
Rob Chase
Co-Chair of the Health Technical Working Group
ExpandNet Secretariat
Laura Ghiron
Co-Chair of the Mainstreaming Working Group
President and Lead Consultant for Strategy, Impact and Learning at Strategy and Scale
Richard Kohl
Co-Chair of the Nutrition Working Group
Consultant, Food Security Evidence Brokerage
Charlotte Coogan
Co-Chair of the Social Enterprise Working Group
Colin Christensen
Co-Chair of the Youth Employment Working Group
Program Director of Systems Change for Workforce Development at International Youth Foundation
Liz Vance
Sustaining Member of the CoP: OECD
Head of OECD Innovation for Development Facility
Benjamin Kumpf
Sustaining Member of the CoP: CRS
Director, Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Lan Mercado
Sustaining Member of the CoP: Echidna Giving
Program Director, Echidna Giving
