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Mainstreaming Scaling at Fundación Corona
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Fundación Corona is a Colombian family foundation created in 1963 by the Echavarría Olózaga family. Its mission is to promote social development, equity, and quality of life in Colombia by strengthening the capacities of diverse organizations. Its vision is to be recognized as a leader in developing innovative, replicable, and sustainable models that improve lives and advance systemic change. Evolving from its earlier focus on education-to-employment and citizen engagement, Fundación Corona now concentrates on transforming the broader youth ...
Country Platforms and Scaling: An Exploration of Key Issues
Abstract The idea that country platforms can improve the effectiveness of development and climate action has gained increased traction in recent years, so has the idea that development and climate action must follow a systematic scaling approach to achieve transformational impact at scale. The purpose of this exploratory note is to bring these two ideas together to determine whether and how country platforms can support transformational scaling and whether and how a focus on scaling can make country platforms more ...
Examination of Legal and Regulatory Pathways for Management and Dissemination of Intellectual Assets Produced Under USAID Feed the Future Projects
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. Introduction Despite considerable efforts to promote innovation in the agricultural sector, a significant amount of technology either remains on the shelf or is not effectively scaled to reach its intended beneficiaries – the farmers and marginalized communities it is meant to support. This is true across publicly funded programs and projects, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donors prioritize striking a balance between fostering innovation and expanding stakeholder access to technology and ...
Mainstreaming Scaling at the Gates Foundation
Executive Summary This report examines how the Gates Foundation has approached scaling development outcomes across multiple Program Strategy Teams (PSTs), with a focus on strategies, pathways, partnerships, and lessons learned. In a context of declining global official development assistance and the foundation’s own 20-year wind down timeline (2045 close date), the foundation's catalytic role and ability to support sustainable scale is increasingly critical. Key findings include: Scaling approaches vary widely across PSTs but often follow a common innovation-to-scale trajectory, blending ...
Mainstreaming at SDC’s TRANSFORM
Executive Summary This paper is a study of the mainstreaming of scaling within the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s (SDC) research and innovation for development program. It focuses on the TRANSFORM program which is funded and coordinated through SDC’s Analysis and Research Section (A&R). This study complements and draws on a two-year “action-research” initiative on the part of the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) to study mainstreaming scaling in international development funder organizations. When the SDC first initiated TRANSFORM ...
Mainstreaming Scaling at STDF
Executive summary The Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) is a global partnership that promotes improved food safety and animal and plant health in developing countries. STDF helps developing countries meet sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements for imports and exports, based on international standards. It acts through three interlinked workstreams — Global Platform, Knowledge Work, and the Grant Mechanism — to catalyse change by convening, innovating, and learning for effective SPS practices. STDF is supported by donor contributions from Australia, ...
