Evaluation for impact at scale – a need for interventions along the pathway
This blog was initially published on the International Initiative for Impact Education (3ie). Read the full blog post here.
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Hardwiring the scaling-up habit in donor organizations
Reposted from Hardwiring the scaling-up habit in donor organizations, 12/16/2021, Editor’s note:This blog is based on a presentation on mainstreaming scaling in donor organizations at the Workshop of the Community of Practice, November 2021. If the international community is to meet…
Digital technology and African smallholder agriculture: Implications for public policy
COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges to Africa’s food and agriculture sector and to its millions of smallholder farmers. At the same time, the pandemic has accelerated innovative efforts to develop and deploy the transformative power of digital technology to address these…
Designing for scale: A worksheet for developing a scaling strategy in education
Suddenly, talk of scaling and systems change in education seems to be popping up everywhere—and for good reason. Progress toward key educational goals has stalled or even regressed, and education systems have been slow to adopt and integrate disruptive change.…
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 (m.manuel@odi.org.uk) 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 (D.Aytekin@cgiar.org) HarvestPlus and Ekin Birol (E.Birol@cgiar.org) 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…