Scaling and Systems: Issues Paper
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Public Expenditure for Child Care Reform: How to Use Influence to Reach Scale
By: Beth Bradford, Changing the Way We Care Technical Director, Maestral and Erica Dahl-Bredine, Changing the Way We Care Influence, Learning, and Engagement Director, CRS Efforts to promote family care of children and reduce the reliance of national children’s care…
Sierra Leone Shows Low-Cost Scaling Up of Community Based Legal Advice and Assistance is Possible
By: Marcus Manuel ([email protected]) and Clare Manuel, ODI Summary Forthcoming ODI research shows that the new, mainly government-funded, Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board has scaled up community-based justice advice and assistance by a factor of 10 and has done so…
Strengthening Sustainable Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programming in Lebanon through the Ahlan Simsim/Play to Learn Scaling Approach
By: IRC Team Vulnerable infants and children in Lebanon, including Syrian refugees between the ages of 0 and 5, face a general lack of quality early childhood support and are frequently exposed to stressful home environments. Often, they don’t have access…
HarvestPlus Updates Biofortification Priority Index with More Crops and Features
By: Destan Aytekin ([email protected]) HarvestPlus and Ekin Birol ([email protected]) What is the Biofortification Priority Index (BPI)? The BPI is an analytical tool developed by Harvestplus to inform data-driven decisions for scaling up biofortification. It is also recognized as one of…
Can a Telenovela Help Kids Stay in School during COVID-19?
By Sergio De Marco and Barbara Sparrow A still from the telanovela “Decidiendo para un Futuro Mejor” (Choosing a Better Future). In late 2020, as part of Peru’s national mobilization for educational continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s Ministry of Education…
Scaling Up Impact – the Key Challenge for the Development Community Takeaways from a Workshop of the Scaling Community of Practice
By: Lawrence Cooley, Richard Kohl, and Johannes Linn “Scaling up impact” is the new watchword in development. Cynics might be inclined to dismiss it as the newest fad in the merry-go-round of fads in development theory and practice. But this…
USAID Organizational Capacity Assessment
