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CoP Newsletter 29

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Scaling 3.0, Future Directions for Scaling and for the Scaling Community of Practice

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The session was divided in two segments. During the first segment Elissa Miolene engaged Larry Cooley, Isabel Guerrero, and Johannes Lin in a conversation about the progress with scaling over the last decade, what is getting in the way of change, what we learn from students today whom [...]

Scaling Nutrition Interventions: The Role of the Private Sector

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description After being dormant for a few years, the Nutrition Working Group re-launched with a discussion on scaling nutrition interventions, focusing on the private sector. Charlotte Lane set the stage, challenging the status quo of hyper-localized, small-scale nutrition initiatives and advocating for a paradigm shift towards large-scale, impactful solutions. [...]

Navigating Ethical Considerations When Supporting Scale Up of Health Interventions

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Moderator Dr. Ben Cislaghi provided an initial framing on ethical principles and values using four metaphors for framing global health: as a supermarket, a boxing ring, a colony, and/or a juggernaut. Like supermarkets, global health is often focused on selling outputs, such as vaccines. Global health is like [...]

Political Economies (PE) of Scaling in Fragile Contexts

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The session, moderated by Robert Chase, featured two presentations. In the first presentation, Alastair McKechnie spoke about scaling the basic health services packages in Afghanistan. The second presentation by Pallavi Roy provided bottom-up solutions from Nigeria’s electricity generation sector. Afghanistan Alastair McKechnie explained that in the early 2000s, [...]

Scaling Approaches for Education Assessments

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description With the 2015 formal approval of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.1.1 on education quality, governments are grappling with the most cost effective and sustainable way to measure minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics for children in primary and secondary school. A wide array of reading and [...]

Unlocking Potential – Agricultural Transformation and Scaling in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) was established in 2010 by the Government of Tanzania to accelerate public-private partnerships to transform agriculture, boost incomes and improve nutrition in the Southern Highlands, one of the poorest regions of the country. The platform has helped to crowd in [...]

Scaling Youth Employment in Response to Opportunities Created by the Energy Transition

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Liz Vance, the session moderator, began the session by explaining that green jobs are one of the world’s most rapidly growing occupations: the International Energy Agency projects that adopting clean energy technologies will generate millions of jobs by 2030, with millions more to retrofit and construct energy-efficient buildings and manufacture new energy vehicles. The [...]

Legislative Opportunities to Catalyze Social Enterprise Scaling

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Isabel Guerrero welcomed panelists and participants. She also introduced Colin Christensen, co-chair with Isabel of the Social Enterprise Innovation Working Group. Dan Gregory provided an overview of issues that social enterprises face in the UK and globally. Natalia Agapitova spoke about her many years of supporting social enterprise [...]

Bridging Evidence to Policy Through Data for Scaling and Systems Change

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description M&E Working Group Chair John Floretta began the session by explaining that in recent years, the M&E working group has focused on scaling and sustaining social programs in lower and middle-income country government systems that originated in the non-profit sector. The working group looked at many “outside-in” examples [...]

Scaling Private Investment in Climate Adaptation and Biodiversity

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Johannes Linn introduced the session and the new co-chairs of the Climate Change Working Group, Matt Eldridge and Karin Kemper. Matt highlighted the purpose of the session: bringing together practitioners in the fields of climate and nature investing to highlight practical approaches to scaling private investments in these [...]

Book Launch: Scaling Up Development Impact

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Isabel Guerrero introduced her new book, Scaling Up Development Impact, which offers an analytical framework, a set of practical tools, and adaptive evaluation techniques to accompany the scaling process. She found inspiration for her work in the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), whose movement to organize millions of informal women workers [...]

Mainstreaming a Systematic Approach to Scaling to Funding Organizations

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Larry Cooley welcomed participants and introduced the SCoP and its 2023-2024 action-research project, the Initiative on Mainstreaming Scaling in Funder Organizations (Mainstreaming Initiative). Poonam Muttreja, moderator of the session, noted from her experience in India that external funders are often a hindrance to scaling. It is critical for [...]

2024 Annual Forum Proceedings

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CoP Newsletter 26

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2023 Annual Workshop Proceedings

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Main Takeaways from AWS 2023; and the CoP Strategy in 2023 and Beyond

About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description This webinar is the last session in the 2023 Annual Workshop! It covers the major takeaways from AWS 2023 and summarizes the webinar series. Split up into two sections, it begins with Ndidi Nwuneli presenting some of the key takeaways from the previous AWS 2023 sessions and ends [...]

Perspectives on Scale up in Key Global Health Areas

The Role of Donors in Supporting the Scale up of Social Enterprises – the Undervalued Importance of Intermediation

Reflecting on Mainstreaming and Scaling Principles in Education

Scaling Climate Action Post-COP27

Tools and Strategies for Assessing the Scalability and Institutionalization of New Interventions and Practices within Government Systems

Plenary 2: Harnessing the Power of IT as a Game Changer for Scaling

Coordinating National Scaling Efforts for Food Systems Transformation

Innovative Approaches to Scaling at the Last Mile in the Hardest Places

Beyond Digital Training Delivery, Digital Disruption, and Youth Economic Opportunities

Moderator Jessica Ngo, Deputy Chief of Party, Management Systems International Speakers Rebeca De La Vega, Regional Manager, Cisco Hisham Jabi, Founder and CEO, PalTechUS Session Materials The Digital Economy: A Big Opportunity for the Young – Rebecca de la Vega Youth Employment in the Mena Region – Hisham Jabi  

Plenary 1: Mainstreaming a Focus on Scale in Funder Organizations

Moderators Larry Cooley, Founder and President Emeritus, Management Systems International Johannes Linn, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Speakers Richard Kohl, Founder, Center for Large Scale Social Change LLC Bridget Bucardo Rivera, Senior Technical Advisor, Catholic Relief Services Julie Howard, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies Session Materials Mainstreaming Scaling in Donors – Johannes Linn Mainstreaming Scaling in Donors – […]

Plenary 3: Principles, lessons, and guidelines for successful and sustainable scaling

Speakers: Richard Kohl, Strategy and Scale Consultant Johannes Linn, Nonresident Fellow at Brookings, Co-Chair of the Scaling CoP Respondents: Santiago Levy, Former Vice President at IADB, former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mexico Ruth Simmons, Professor Emerita at University of Michigan, Member of the CoP’s Executive Committee Charles Kabiswa, Programs Director at Ecological Christian Organization, Uganda […]

2021 Annual Workshop: Social Enterprise Working Group Session

Speaker: Galen Welsch, Co-Founder at Jibu Sabrina Habib, CEO and Co-founder Kidogo Moderators: Elaine Tinsley, Private Sector Specialist at World Bank, Co-Chair of the CoP’s Social Enterprise Working Group

2021 Annual Workshop: Climate Change Working Group Session

Speakers: Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics Yannick Glemarec, Executive Director, Green Climate Fund Amal Lee Amin, Director, Climate Change at CDC Moderators: Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute, Co-Chair of the CoP’s Climate Change Working Group George Zedginidze, Head of Knowledge and Change […]