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 of non-profits (including Educate!, Last Mile Health, Partners in Health, Pratham and Youth Impact) who pioneered innovations through direct implementation and are now helping governments to adapt, contextualize, and scale these innovations. The working group has also explored the relevance of M&E tools (such as MSI’s institutionalization tracker) and wrote a ...

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 areas. Emilie Mazzacurati began the discussion by speaking about private investment opportunities in adaptation as well as policy barriers and the need for definitions. Gregory Watson highlighted the massive gaps in finance for both biodiversity and climate adaptation and explained how blended finance can help scale both nature investments and climate ...

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 started her journey to understand scaling. Another motivation was addressing the missing middle problem— where top-down solutions fail to reach the grassroots, and local innovations struggle to reach large scale. This was the seed that led her to found Imago Global Grassroots, with a vision to take innovative grassroots solutions to ...

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 funders to align with national priorities and support national capacity development to ensure sustainable impact at scale. This will require deep behavioral change in funder organizations. Richard Kohl and Johannes Linn provided a preliminary interim synthesis of the findings and lessons from the Mainstreaming Initiative, drawing on 13 case studies of ...

Introduction The Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) is a global network of 4,000+ professionals from 400 organizations in 70 countries. The SCoP and its members are committed to ensuring that development and climate organizations adopt systematic approaches to achieve sustainable outcomes that match the scale of some of the world’s most significant and most urgent problems. The SCoP was launched in February of 2015. It is voluntary and member-led, overseen by an Executive Committee of 32 individuals from multilateral and bilateral donors, think tanks, NGOs, universities, foundations, and private firms. It operates 10 sectoral and thematic Working Groups focused on ...

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter 26 of the Scaling Community of Practice (CoP). This Newsletter reports on our very successful Annual Workshop 2023 which ran from 23 January to 8 February 2023. The 11 Workshop sessions were attended by over 900 participants, 70 percent of them from the Global South. We thank all of you who helped making it a success. For those of you who missed any of the 11 sessions, you can read the summaries of the presentations and discussions in the "Proceedings" of the Workshop on our website. And all the videos ...

Introduction The Scaling Community of Practice convened its seventh Annual Workshop from 23 January to 8 February 2023. As with the preceding two Annual Workshops, the 2023 Workshop was held in virtual format. Eleven sessions, each 90 minutes in length, brought together 48 scaling practitioners and experts from a wide range of countries, professions, and sectoral and thematic engagement. The sessions were attended by 924 participants, also from a wide range of geographic and professional backgrounds. Three of the sessions were held in “plenary format” addressing cross cutting issues. The first plenary session focused on how scaling can be mainstreamed ...

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 with Larry Cooley and Johannes Linn's view of the future for CoP. Here are some highlights: Funders and Scaling: funders play a critical role through their actions and inactions in providing incentives or disincentives for scaling.  Prioritization and sector focus: understanding how to prioritize important issues can be difficult, but must ...

This is the Health Working Group session of the Scaling Community of Practice's 2023 Annual Workshop. During this session, a panel of senior leaders working in the technical areas of Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Child Health and Family Planning provide observations and insights on how their fields view scaling up, including the major paradigms, frameworks and approaches that have been used to scale up effective interventions. The moderator then facilitates a discussion among the panelists to elicit common themes and contrasting perspectives from these health fields.Moderators Lester Coutinho, Director of Innovation and Learning, DKT Laura Ghiron, ExpandNet Secretariat Speakers Dr. Charles Holmes, ...

This webinar focuses on the role of donors from the perspective of organizations that want to scale up. Isabel Guerrero opens the session with a focus on intermediation and how it is often undervalued. Perspectives from multiple presenters offer many examples of how organizations can tackle questions they have about donors in scaling up their operations. The session ends with a discussion of the topics, moderated by Isabel Guerrero.Moderator: Isabel Guerrero, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Imago Global Grassroots Habiba Ali, Sosai Renewable Energies Company Ernenek Durán, One Drop Foundation Álvaro Henzler, Mosaico Social Lab María Elena Nawar, IDB Lab Nicola Okero, Food4Education ...