RésuméAu cours des dernières années, notre équipe pluridisciplinaire a constitué un portefeuille de travaux visant à rendre la mise à l’échelle plus structurée, responsable et équitable. Ancré dans des données probantes issues d’études empiriques et de revues, ce portefeuille a conduit au développement d’outils, à la mise à l’échelle d’innovations, à des activités de formation et à des initiatives de mobilisation des connaissances. Ensemble, ces contributions cherchent à renforcer les capacités systémiques nécessaires à une mise à l’échelle rigoureuse.Présentation de l’équipeBased in Québec, the francophone province of Canada, our team brings together members from the Chair in Shared Decision Making ...

What does it take to scale responsive public services in communities that governments have long neglected? This case examines that question through the experience of Asivikelane (‘Let’s protect one another’ in isiZulu), a South African campaign focused on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in informal urban settlements. Launched in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, Asivikelane has contributed to thousands of service delivery improvements reaching millions of informal settlement residents across South Africa’s eight largest cities, while evolving and deepening its scaling approach over time. The central lesson from Asivikelane is about what it takes to build the conditions for ...

AbstractOver recent years, our multidisciplinary team has built a portfolio aimed at making scaling more structured, responsible, and equitable. Grounded in evidence from empirical studies and reviews, this portfolio has led to the development of tools, the scaling of innovations, training activities, and knowledge mobilization initiatives. Together, these contributions seek to strengthen system capacity for rigorous scaling.Team OverviewBased in Québec, the francophone province of Canada, our team brings together members from the Chair in Shared Decision Making (Link), VITAM – Centre for Sustainable Health Research (Link), and the Québec Health and Social Services Support Unit (SPOR–CIHR) (Link). Team members come ...

Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read develops children’s foundational literacy skills, as well as life skills that promote gender equality across 29 countries, with more than 60 million children cumulatively benefitted through our literacy and gender equality programming as of Dec 2025. Across a portfolio of over 15 countries, Room to Read has demonstrated an evidence-based approach to enhance foundational literacy among early grade children through a combination of a structured pedagogic approach to teach literacy and an exposure to appropriate children’s literature through functional school libraries. Building on these ...

Over 2.5 billion people can’t afford a healthy diet. Over half of all children and two out of three women globally are deficient in the essential micronutrients they need to thrive—affording nutritious foods is out of reach for many. For more than two decades, biofortification has proven to be a cost-effective, food-based solution to address hidden hunger. Scaling has gained momentum and millions of farming households and consumers in non-farming households globally, are now growing and eating biofortified foods, making tracking progress in a scaling phase of a technology complicated. So, one critical question has persisted: How do we accurately ...

The Sahel—home to approximately 180 million people living in off-grid, rural communities—is among the world’s most food-insecure and climate-vulnerable regions. Insufficient access to effective storage solutions leads many women and girls to make frequent and lengthy market trips, contributes to significant food losses, and limits regular consumption of nutritious fruits and vegetables. Clay pot coolers are simple, affordable, and effective devices that can solve these challenges for many families and improve food security for communities. CoolVeg’s clay pot cooler training program offers a useful case study in scaling the adoption of a physical device by knowledge diffusion rather than product ...

INTRODUCTION This note presents the research, synthesis, and pedagogy on the approach to scaling up development projects. Scaling-up is indispensable for transforming development financing mechanisms, yet it remains an emerging approach. This work therefore contributes to ongoing efforts toward the adoption of a systematic scaling approach. It provides an overview of the necessary methodology, drawing on numerous studies, particularly those by the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP), and employing an operational lens shaped by the experiences of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The international aid architecture is seeking new momentum In 2023, the Paris Summit (“A new global financing ...

Investments that catalyze livelihoods with poor households makes sense. Households that build income earnings, contribute to the local economy, and accumulate assets to build resilience and wealth. It is not everything a household needs but livelihoods build a strong foundation. Done well it allows the private sector and governments to move on to more advanced goals. Making investments in the poorest households makes sense - how do we do this effectively? This BRAC post outlines the Essentials of programs which are underpinned by the long term evidence. The rigor and evidence for the Graduation approach are strong, but WHY is ...

For decades, maize has been the Nigeria’s most consumed staple, eaten in forms ranging from tuwo and pap to roasted or boiled corn on the roadside. Yet, despite this dietary reliance a persistent exists a vitamin A deficiency, which affects millions of children and women, weakening immunity, impairing vision, and increasing vulnerability to disease. To address this, HarvestPlus and its partners introduced vitamin A maize (VAM), a biofortified crop developed through conventional breeding to contain higher levels of vitamin A. This single innovation has become a game-changer in Nigeria’s fight against hidden hunger. A Decade of Progress: From Pilot to ...

Despite clear evidence on what works to support improvements in ASRH outcomes, taking impactful programming to scale is rarely straightforward. This brief draws on experiences from the A360 and Connect projects in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh, and Tanzania to explore the difficult—but necessary—trade-off questions implementers face when designing for both impact and scale:  Do we invest in demand creation or in strengthening service delivery?  Do we keep interventions simple to facilitate scale—or intervene deeply to mitigate root causes?   Whose goals do we prioritize—government or donor?  Do we prioritize reaching the groups most impacted by inequities—or use a more broad approach to reach all?  These and other ...