As part of a comprehensive action-research initiative on mainstreaming scaling in funder organizations, the Scaling Community of Practice developed a framework for assessing the nature and extent of integration of transformational scaling practices in funder organizations operational approach. The framework was distilled in a “Mainstreaming Tracker Tool” (MTT), which allows funder organizations to plan, track and adapt their mainstreaming efforts. The framework consisted of 13 elements, of which 6 are elements that enable the mainstreaming process, and 7 are elements that relate to the operationalization of mainstreaming scaling ...

Abstract Development effectiveness by governments and development funders requires that their actions result in sustainable impact at scale, i.e., that they address identified development problems to a significant and measurable extent and on a sustained basis. In most cases, sustainable impact at scale cannot be achieved over short time horizons or spontaneously. It requires deliberate, systematic, and sustained action by public and private agencies, supported by third-party funders, in pursuit of a trajectory of action (“scaling pathway”) that takes a specific intervention or a set of policy or institutional reforms as the starting point and eventually leads to sustainable impact ...

It’s as if someone suddenly flipped a switch. Discussions about scale and scaling, previously considered esoteric topics, now appear in almost every conversation about ending poverty, saving lives, or protecting the planet. Whether focused on social enterprise or governmental action, social investment or fortunes at the base of the pyramid, these conversations acknowledge the need to confront explicitly the obstacles that stand between successful pilot projects and the solution to population-level problems.As two people who have worked on the issues of scale and scaling for more than a decade , we are pleased at the attention the issue of scale ...

COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges to Africa’s food and agriculture sector and to its millions of smallholder farmers. At the same time, the pandemic has accelerated innovative efforts to develop and deploy the transformative power of digital technology to address these problems in ways that leapfrog past practices and traditional solutions. In this blog co-authored by SCoP Co-founder Emeritus Larry Cooley, the Brooking Institution’s Director of the Africa Growth Initiative Aloysius Uche Ordu and the World Bank’s Senior Technology Advisor Lesly Goh, the authors explore the possibilities digital technology holds as a transformational force to drive scale ...

Suddenly, talk of scaling and systems change in education seems to be popping up everywhere—and for good reason. Progress toward key educational goals has stalled or even regressed, and education systems have been slow to adopt and integrate disruptive change. As it becomes increasingly clear that planning for scale differs in important ways from typical project planning and from the common five-year education sector plans, it begs the question of what a “scaling strategy” looks like and how best to go about creating one. In this blog co-authored by SCoP Co-Founder Larry Cooley and Brookings Center for Universal Education’s Jenny ...

The newly revised edition of the popular MSI toolkit is intended as a companion to the MSI Scaling Up Framework. It includes tools for creating an overall scaling strategy, developing scaling plans, securing needed political support and financing, implementing the scaling process, and tracking progress toward sustainability ...

CoP Scaling Tools ExpandNet Scaling Tools Based on comprehensive literature reviews and the extensive experience of its members with major scale-up initiatives, ExpandNet, together with WHO, has produced tools, guides, and other resources which are being used by country teams, projects, and institutions in their scale-up endeavors which all feature on this website: https://expandnet.net/tools/. International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) Good Practice Guide for Funders. This paper in the IDIA Insights series focuses on eight good practices for funders seeking to take promising development innovations to scale. It is designed to accompany the Insights on Scaling Innovation paper that draws on ...

Produced in collaboration with VVOB – education for development, the Brookings Center for Universal Education, Educate!, Pratham and STiR Education, the Education Scalability Checklist (ESC) and associated user’s guide adapts MSI’s Scalability Checklist to address the specific needs for scaling interventions in the education sector ...

Introduction The Global Community of Practice on Scaling Development Outcomes has now existed for six years. It has nine working groups (WGs), the majority of which are in sectors like Health, Education and Nutrition. One WG is devoted to a single aspect of the scaling process – Monitoring and Evaluation.1 The Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP) recently completed its 2020 (virtual) Annual Workshop. The workshop was comprised of a one- to two-hour meeting of each WG and three plenary sessions. The plenary session topics were: Scaling During the COVID Crisis, Adaptive Management, and The Role of Political Consensus. The ...

The Management for Development Results Capacity Self-Assessment Toolkit (CAP-Scan) is a practical, self-guided methodology designed to help governments assess and strengthen their capacity to manage for development results (MfDR) at both national and sectoral levels. Developed by MSI in collaboration with a World Bank-led donor consortium, the toolkit is built around a tested maturity model that enables stakeholders to identify strengths, diagnose gaps, and prioritize actions for improvement. CAP-Scan supports capacity development across key areas including leadership, planning and budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, mutual accountability, and statistical systems. The methodology has been applied in 34 countries and has also been ...

The Scale Up Sourcebook is informed and inspired by the September 2018 conference, Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions, organized by Purdue University, in partnership with the African Development Bank. The Sourcebook consolidates, extends, and disseminates some of the scaling insights presented at the Purdue conference. It is intended as an easy-to-use guidebook targeted to a broad and diverse audience of stakeholders associated with scaling agricultural technologies and innovations to meet the needs of the world’s poor. The Sourcebook has nine chapters: designing with scale in mind; assessing scalability; using commercial markets to drive scaling; financing the transition ...

The Coordinators Guide and Toolkit are intended for those supporting a Ministry of Health-led systematic process of scale-up of one or more high-impact reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health interventions, geared towards a scale-up coordinator or scale-up manager role.This guide is intended for use by those who support a country’s systematic process of scaling-up high-impact reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health interventions in the advanced stages of scale-up. Having a specific person in charge of the various processes and tasks that comprise scale-up is critical; there are needs for coordination that span across various roles and touch on ...