Speakers: Larry Cooley, President Emeritus and Senior Advisor at Management Systems International, Co-Founder of the Scaling Up CoP Johannes Linn, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, Co-Founder of the Scaling Up CoP Richard Kohl, Founder and Principal at the Center for…
The 6th Annual Workshop of the Global Community of Practice on Scaling Development Outcomes (CoP) took place as a series of twelve virtual sessions spread over the two-and-a-half-week period from November 8 through November 22nd. The program of events included…
By Mehul Savla (Mehul.Savla@crs.org) and Sahdia Khan (SAHDIA.khan@crs.org) Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Homes and Communities (H&C) approach is committed to ensuring safe, dignified H&C through direct humanitarian service provision for 1.5 million crisis-affected people by 2030. In addition, CRS aims…
By Farzina Siraj Rahee (farzina.siraj@brac.net) BRAC Education Programme (BEP), in cooperation with BRAC’s Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) and BRAC Institute of Education and Development’s (BIED) Social Innovation Lab (SIL), has initiated an innovative approach called ‘Radio School’. It is a…
By Jay Goulden (goulden@careinternational.org) and David Leege (David.Leege@care.org) How does an international NGO like CARE contribute to sustainable, systemic change at scale, far beyond the direct work we and our partners carry out with communities? That is the challenge we’ve…
By Richard Kohl (richardkohl@strategyandscale.com ) and Tom Feeny (tfeeny@r4d.org). Results for Development (R4D) is implementing a project funded by Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) (1) to better understand and catalyze demand for, and scale-up of, health innovations by public sector actors…
By Alan Hurwitz (ahalink@comcast.net) The success of many scaling processes may depend in large part on the effectiveness of a group of interdependent stakeholders working as a truly collaborative system. For some years, I have been exploring the more general…
By Irina Ivan with Cecilia Vaca Jones, Hague, The Netherlands, 16 July 2020 The Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) has kept its focus on early childhood for more than 50 years. Since 1967, we have been working with and through partners…
By HarvestPlus, July 2020 More than 2.5 billion people are at risk of micronutrient deficiency worldwide. Also known as “hidden hunger”, and mainly resulting from poor diets, micronutrient deficiencies cause ill health, impair children’s mental and physical development, and reduce…
By Oyindamola Adegboye and Olumide Morolayo, The Education Partnership (TEP) Center July 2020 Similar to other countries, schools in Nigeria have been temporarily shut down following the outbreak of COVID-19. While this presents numerous challenges for an already fragile education…