ANNUAL FORUM
Through its Annual Forums, the Scaling Community of Practice convenes global practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and funders to exchange evidence, experiences, and practical insights on advancing impact at scale. Browse this page to explore past Forums, including session highlights, speaker information, and available recordings.
Annual Forum Review & Scaling Campaign Call to Action
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 ...
CoP Newsletter 29
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter 29 of the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP). This Newsletter provides you with summaries of our very successful 2024 Annual Forum on 11-26 March. The 12 virtual sessions covered a wide array of issues and experiences with presentations by 54 panelists from 51 organizations. A total of 1008 participants from 386 organizations in 77 countries joined in lively exchanges. The summaries can also be found on the SCoP website as the Proceedings from the 2024 Annual Forum. Videos and slides for the 12 sessions can be found here. Highlights of ...
Scaling 3.0, Future Directions for Scaling and for the Scaling Community of Practice
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 we teach about scaling, and what lessons are to be learned from the scaling experience of the SCoP itself. During the second segment, Larry and Johannes updated participants about the plans for the future of the SCoP and sought feedback and advice. Segment 1 All three panelists agreed that there has ...
Scaling Nutrition Interventions: The Role of the Private Sector
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. Her opening remarks underscored the opportunity to leverage the private sector's reach and efficiency to meet the nutritional needs of millions but indicated that mistrust and miscommunication may inhibit effective collaboration. Jenny Walton, representing HarvestPlus, built upon this theme, sharing the organization's success in integrating biofortified foods into the global food ...
Navigating Ethical Considerations When Supporting Scale Up of Health Interventions
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 a boxing ring because when a product gets on the market it becomes a fight over who can do it the cheapest and the fastest. Global health is a colony because most people working on global health are either coming from or are educated in the global north and may not share ...
Political Economies (PE) of Scaling in Fragile Contexts
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, Afghanistan was emerging from 30 years of war and its health indicators were among lowest in world. It had a non-functional Ministry of Public Health (MoPH); services were mainly provided by NGOs. While the government had clear strategic priorities and wanted funding and coordination through the national budget, most donors had ...
Scaling Approaches for Education Assessments
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 math testing tools exist, many of which are too expensive for ministries of education to scale at a national level. Moderated by Lisa Slifer-Mbacke, Co-Chair of Education Working Group of the Scaling Community of Practice, the panelists examined challenges and opportunities relating to alignment, measurement, and use of SDG Indicator 4.1.1 ...
Unlocking Potential – Agricultural Transformation and Scaling in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands
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 private and public investment, driven policy reform, and scaled up technological innovations. This session explored SAGCOT’s evolution, achievements, constraints, and lessons from the perspective of SAGCOT’s CEO and key partners. SAGOT CEO Geoffrey Kirenga described SAGCOT’s cluster approach. SAGCOT identifies new investment opportunities in each of its six clusters and coordinates ...
Scaling Youth Employment in Response to Opportunities Created by the Energy Transition
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 World Economic Forum’s 2023 future of jobs report cites the green transition as the key driver of job growth. However, most countries are not making the needed investments in green job training programs. As an opening exercise, participants were asked to close their eyes and visualize a “green job.” Participants shared their ideas via emoji ...
Legislative Opportunities to Catalyze Social Enterprise Scaling
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 development in developing countries. Colin shared a case study on getting social enterprises into development funding legislation in the US Congress. Dan summarized common features of SEs to include: (i) independence from the state; (ii) majority income through trading; (iii) enshrined social/environmental purpose; and (iv) reinvesting a majority of profit. While ...
