(by Sharath Jeevan with Reinier Terwindt, James Townsend & Nithya Gurukumar – STIR Education, with thanks to 17 leading funding and operating organizations who contributed to this piece). Over the past six and half years since STIR was founded, it…
By Florence Reed flo@sustainableharvest.org As friends of Sustainable Harvest International, Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) wants you to be among the first to know about the noteworthy changes SHI has in store in the coming months and years. SHI is proud…
Scaling of agricultural, food and other livelihoods innovations is one of the biggest challenges for research and development organizations. One of the key problems is the lack of approaches that can facilitate evidence-based decision making on which activities and partnerships…
By Alexis Bonnell abonnell@usaid.gov “Securing Water for Food”, through the Technical Assistance Facility, supports mission-driven innovators by providing acceleration services that influence their pathway to scale-up and help them to pinpoint key management decisions that enable their success. From determining…
By Robert Berlin robert.berlin@syngenta.com Young people continue to leave farms for the cities. Some, however, seize rural business opportunities if these become available. Their enthusiasm can lift entire agricultural communities. Robert Berlin, Head of Agriservices at the Syngenta Foundation, explains.…
By Suzanne Nielsen nielsens@purdue.edu The Scale Up Conference, “Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions”, was held at Purdue University on Sept. 25-27, 2018. The conference brought together 225 individuals representing 100 organizations and 21 countries from around the…
By Kate Radford Kate.Radford@warchild.nl Thanks to the development of an implementation protocol based on real time learning, Can’t Wait to Learn – a curriculum-based, educative gaming technology model designed specifically for and by children affected by conflict – has started…
By Maria Elena Mangiafico m.magiafico@ifad.org IFAD is currently undergoing an Operational Excellence for Results (OpEx) exercise for delivering bigger and better outputs and expanding and scaling up IFAD’s impact. The restructuring exercise aims to establish IFAD as a recognized best-in-class…
By Anne Healy anne.healy@evidence-action.org Evidence Action aims to be a world leader in scaling evidence-based, cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty. We do this both by leading flagship, at-scale, cost-effective programs and through our in-house incubator charged with…
By Jenny Perlman Robinson jperlman@brookings.edu and Molly Curtiss mcurtiss@brookings.edu Millions Learning, a project of the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution, focuses on the question of how to scale quality education for all children and youth. In the…