Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources Across Africa, education innovators, funders, and implementers increasingly agree that government adoption is the only credible pathway to scale. Yet most sector conversations still treat “government” as a black box—engaged at moments of approval rather than understood as a complex system with its own incentives, constraints, and decision-making rhythms. As bilateral aid contracts and governments become the primary stewards of education reform, this gap in understanding has become one of the biggest barriers to sustainable impact.This session pulls back the curtain on how education ministries actually function. Anchored in a real-world case study from ...

Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources This interactive webinar will explore the potential of country platforms as vehicles to accelerate and scale climate and development action, building on recent momentum (e.g., the launch of a Country Platforms Hub at COP30) while taking an honest look at the challenges that could limit their full impact. Drawing on perspectives from expert speakers working across finance, policy, and implementation, the session will examine what country platforms are achieving in practice and where gaps remain. Through a frank, solutions-oriented discussion, we will discuss the critical factors – such as governance, incentives, coordination, financing structures, ...

Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources In many fragile states, traditional scaling avenues through government services are under severe strain as foreign assistance contracts and national budgets tighten. This dynamic is reshaping how essential services are delivered. Many have proposed the private sector as a potential solution to the withdrawal of foreign assistance. Private firms can bring investment, expertise, jobs, and service delivery. But, their presence in fragile settings remains limited and often requires targeted support and blended finance to mitigate high risks. This discussion will explore real-world experiences of loss of aid funding, shifting roles of governments, and where ...

Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources Service learning is one of the few youth development approaches that public systems can scale quickly—low cost, high visibility, and easily embedded in schools and civic programs. Yet high-quality service learning is difficult to execute: structure, reflection, and community relevance are essential for impact. As youth unrest grows globally, this session explores how well-designed service learning provides a constructive outlet for youth agency and strengthens the social contract, with employment emerging as its most tangible expression. We’ll examine how service learning and community engagement—done with rigor—can simultaneously build employability skills and reinforce social cohesion ...

Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources Since 2003, the global ExpandNet network has been working to catalyze a paradigm shift towards more systematic, country-owned and locally-led scaling processes. ExpandNet members have been developing scaling-related guidance tools and providing technical support to advance the scale up of successfully tested interventions across a range of technical areas. Now with decades of practical country experience in the application of the guidance tools developed with WHO, both within and beyond the health sector, ExpandNet has turned to large-scale dissemination of learnings through its forthcoming Scale-up Learning Center (SLC) platform. The SLC is intended to make ...

Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources Plenary Session 1 will launch the Synthesis Report and Policy Brief for the Scaling Community’s Initiative on Mainstreaming Scaling in Funder Organizations with a presentation and discussion of major findings and lessons. Under this Initiative, 28 case studies were prepared by and for a wide range of international funder organizations supporting development and climate action.The Session will explore (i) why it matters that funders support a systematic scaling process and how recipients see the funders’ role; (ii) what are good – i.e., transformational – scaling practices that funders should support; (iii) how funders have ...

Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources Since the Scaling Community of Practice was established in 2015 years ago, the global context has shifted radically. It’s time now to turn our attention urgently to influencing current thinking about the way forward. Building on the experience of a three-year action research program, the SCoP has decided to turn its attention to a 5-year action agenda to align the practices, policies and priorities of governments, funders, innovators and implementers to align with the lessons we have learned about producing sustainable outcomes that match the scale of the development and climate problems they address ...

Join the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) for a closing Plenary starting with a review of the key insights from this year’s Annual Forum. This will be followed by an interactive session where we want to hear from participants how they and their organizations may join us in launching the Scaling Campaign. We will discuss how the SCoP and our collective members can assist and enable one another to advance transformative scaling. We hope you will accept this Call to Action and join us for this exciting capstone event ...

Social enterprises, through their combination of social mission and business approach, offer a unique point of entry into tackling scaling challenges in agriculture, particularly for groups such as smallholder farmers, youth, and women. Through innovative models, social enterprises can drive adoption in rural communities through financing and logistical networks, building more resilient, prosperous communities. Evidence shows that social enterprise can advance scale in agriculture. However, the effectiveness of these enterprises largely depends on the institutional ecosystem in which they operate. Studies of farmers’ producer organizations and cooperatives across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa show that while farmers’ producer organizations and ...

This FfD4 hybrid side-event—co-hosted by AFD and the Scaling Community of Practice—gathered development leaders, funders, and implementers to tackle one big question: how to achieve impact at scale in a world of shrinking aid budgets. Rather than pilot after pilot, speakers called for systemic change: long-term, locally-owned, evidence-based scaling strategies embedded in institutions from day one. We have eight takeaways: Stop stacking pilots. The international development sector is a “junkyard of pilots”—solutions must be designed from the start to scale, not as afterthoughts. Governments must lead. Donors should stop expecting governments to adopt solutions late in the game. Local ownership ...