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).
Embedding scaling into evaluation methodology and practice: A call to action
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