As it faces the current development finance crisis, the development community is looking for diversified funding sources, including domestic resources, private investment, and charitable giving. However, the crisis also demands that we focus intensively on spending the available resources effectively, and in particular that development initiatives are structured to support long-term sustainable impact at scale. This, in turn, requires aligning innovation, investment projects, and policy reform to support resilient, locally-owned, and eventually self-sustaining scaling pathways (as documented in an earlier 3ie blog).
Mainstreaming Scaling in Funder Organizations: A Synthesis Report
Larry Cooley
February 9, 2026
Preface: A High-Level Summary of Findings This report presents a synthesis of findings from a The main findings of the report are also summarized in
