By Alastair McKechnie alasmck@gmail.com There are a number of recent ODI publications that address getting to scale including the following: “Monitoring and learning for country-level portfolio decision-making and adaptation” ( org pdf) (May 2019; by Anne Buffardi, Paige Mason, Claire…
A group of researchers from the CIMMYT, Jan Ubels from SNV Netherlands Development Organization, and Larry Cooley of Management Systems International, have been studying the process of scaling, to understand why successful (pilot) projects are no guarantee for success at…
By Jane Cover, PhD MPH, Research and Evaluation Manager, PATH jcover@path.org Self-injection of contraception is a new option that enhances women’s autonomy and control over whether and when to have children, while decreasing the time and costs associated with quarterly…
By Annette Donnelly annette5@illinois.edu The Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) is a USAID Feed the Future program dedicated to soybean research for economic development and reduction of global poverty and hunger by accelerating growth in the agricultural sector. This multi-pronged program…
By John Branch jbranch@poverty-action.org 1. Working from Within Governments to Encourage Evidence-Informed Decision-Making One strategy for moving evidence to policy that engenders particularly meaningful partnerships is to work from within governments, whether through embedding staff within government offices or facilitating…
By María Boa Alvarado, Scaling Coordinator, CIMMYT M.BOA@cgiar.org The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) recently created a task-force at the institutional level in order to mainstream and integrate scaling principles and guidelines in order to better generate impacts…
By Nicki Connell, ECF Technical Director nicki@eleanorcrookfoundation.org The Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) recently announced the 2018 Request for Applications (RFA) for its RISE (Research, Innovate, Scale and Establish) for Nutrition portfolio. The 2018 RISE grants will consist of up to…
By Maude Olivier maude.olivier@international.gc.ca On January 31, 2019, Global Affairs Canada’s Development Innovation Unit hosted an interactive learning session on Scaling Up Promising Innovations to Accelerate Development Impact. The panel featured experts from across disciplines: Robert McLean, Senior Program Specialist,…
By Thomas Feeny tfeeny@r4d.org With ‘scaling’ now IDIA’s overarching theme for 2019/2020, the IDIA members (comprising 13 major development finance institutions, with R4D serving as the secretariat; see ) have set themselves an exciting new goal to collaboratively accelerate the…
By Ryan Derni Ryan.Derni@care.org Over the last seven years, CARE has partnered with the Government of Bihar, India with the support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to dramatically change health outcomes for women, children and families. In 2011,…