Introduction The Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) held its 9th Annual Forum from February 23rd to March 6th. Over one thousand people from 443 organizations registered for the event, which presented views from speakers in 11 webinars over 10 days. All eight working groups hosted webinars, and there were plenaries on results from the SCoP’s study of mainstreaming scaling in funder organizations, the launch of the Scaling Campaign 2026-2030, and a final summary and Call to Action. Over the course of two weeks, six key themes emerged: The decline in official development assistance is an opportunity to accelerate the shift ...

Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) are designed to prevent undernutrition among infants and young children in settings where vulnerable populations are likely to have nutrient gaps in their diets. Recent meta-analyses found that provision of SQ-LNS was associated with a 27% reduction in mortality, 31% reduction in severe wasting, 17% reduction in severe stunting, 64% reduction in iron deficiency anemia, and 16-19% reduction in developmental delays among children 6-23 months of age. The SQ-LNS Task Force was formed to catalyze efforts to scale-up SQ-LNS for the prevention of undernutrition among children 6-23 months of ...

Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources Scaling challenges are increasingly recognized as complex, systemic, and rarely solvable by single actors or linear approaches. As a result, development organizations are moving away from viewing scaling as a process of simple expansion or replication, and toward acknowledging that many scaling challenges require multiple organizations working together, through diverse and complementary pathways, to achieve durable impact.Within contemporary development discourse, scaling has evolved beyond notions of reach or growth to encompass how interventions, practices, and ideas circulate, adapt, and become embedded across varied contexts while retaining their core intent. Rather than being assessed solely ...

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 Summary 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 ...

Session Blurb Summary 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 ...

Session Blurb Summary 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.Part ...