BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS The Mainstreaming Initiative is based on the Concept Note approved by the Executive Committee of the Scaling CoP. It builds on prior work, including an exploratory study prepared for the initiative which lays out the existing knowledge base. Scaling Up Through Aid-The Real ChallengeSummary At the Gleneagles Summit in 2005, leaders of the G8 group of nations committed to increase aid to poor nations by $50 billion per year. During the same year, in a meeting in Paris, donors promised to coordinate their interventions for more effective delivery. Th ese commitments are now often referred to as the […] Mainstreaming the Scaling Agenda in Development Funder Organizations: A ReviewIntroduction The international development community is increasingly paying attention to the need to sustainably scale development impact.[1] One indicator of this growing interest is the rapid increase in the membership of the Scaling Community of Practice (CoP). Moreover, there are indications that development funders individually and jointly are focusing more on scaling development impact than [...]Exploratory Study of Mainstreaming Scaling{{ vc_btn: title=Download+the+paper+here&color=success&size=lg&align=center&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fscalingcommunityofpractice.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2022%252F11%252FExploratory-Study-of-Mainstreaming-Scaling.pdf }} 1. Introduction Despite increasing discussion within the international development community about the importance of scaling, actual scaling activities and the resources devoted to it remain at a low level. This contributes to the general underperformance of development assistance compared to the need and threatens to prevent the global community from achieving [...]Hardwiring the scaling-up habit in donor organizationsReposted from Hardwiring the scaling-up habit in donor organizations, 12/16/2021, https://www.brookings.edu/articles/hardwiring-the-scaling-up-habit-in-donor-organizations/ Editor’s note:This blog is based on a presentation on mainstreaming scaling in donor organizations at the Workshop of the Community of Practice, November 2021. If the international community is to meet global development and climate challenges, in particular the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris […]
