By Meghan Cutherell, Sr. Technical Program Manager; Seyoum Atlie, RISE Project Director; Dr. Rahel Demissew, SRH Director; at Population Services International (PSI), Ethiopia. Introduction It is imperative that the development community move beyond boutique, unscalable program designs towards sustainable scale-up of promising interventions, particularly through the public sector. However, pursuing sustainable scale through the public sector often puts organizations at […]
By Fares Georges Khalil, HundrED The process of scaling up education innovations is of increasing importance to both practitioners and researchers who are interested in education transformation. Without scale, it would be difficult to achieve the SDG 4 goals related to attaining inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. To this end, promising education initiatives […]
By Feed the Future Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab, foodsystemsnutrition@tufts.edu Smallholder farmers, typically characterized by limited resources and production capacities, play a significant role in global food production. However, smallholder farmers in low-income countries face particular challenges that include low productivity, limited access to markets, and disproportionate vulnerability to climate change. There is a critical need to ensure that […]
Resourcing the scaling process is one of the most challenging aspects of scaling up effective education models. This webinar will highlight three examples from the Center for Universal Education’s Real-time Scaling Labs of how innovative partnerships and financing mechanisms were used to provide dependable resources for the middle phase of scaling. This session will start with a brief overview of the role [...]
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This webinar reflects on how the Global Fund and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) are investing in national government actors in Guinea to achieve shared scaling goals. The webinar features an introduction to the High Performing Implementers (HPI) Initiative as an example of how CRS and the Global Fund are investing in national actors to achieve scaling goals. This is followed [...]
Summary 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 promise of donors to “scale […]
Too often, the complex multistakeholder work of scaling is not captured by typical monitoring and evaluation or research studies, and lessons learned are not systematically documented. In response, in 2018 the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings launched a series of Real-time Scaling Labs (RTSL) to generate more evidence and provide practical recommendations on how to expand, deepen, and […]
Each year an estimated 750 million people have a justice problem that they are unable to solve (1.5 billion people over 2 years). The Task Force on Justice and the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law have pointed out that if SDG’s promise of ‘equal access to justice for all’ is to be achieved, low-cost models able to respond to […]
In 2018, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Sesame Workshop came together to support children’s healthy development by pairing mass media resources with service provision through the Ahlan Simsim initiative. Ahlan Simsim aims to ensure that children ages 0 to 8 affected by conflict and crisis in the MENA region are supported by cost effective, adaptable, and contextualized early childhood […]
This webinar, co-hosted with Breakthrough India, focuses on the experience and lessons on scaling gender norm shift interventions through the Ministry of Education in Odisha and Punjab in India. Breakthrough is a non-profit organisation that works to address gender inequality and violence against women in India. Its innovation is Taaron ki Toli, or Group of Stars, a school-based programme for [...]
This webinar focuses on the experience and lessons learned in mainstreaming scaling from HarvestPlus. The HarvestPlus program works across CGIAR as part of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). HarvestPlus fights hunger worldwide by scaling new, climate smart, high yielding, competitive varieties of staple crops that are nutrient enriched, making food systems more nutritious and inclusive. The session focuses on how HarvestPlus [...]
GIZ (the German Agency for Development Cooperation) has long been focused on supporting scaling the impact of development programs in partner countries through its funding and technical assistance. In 2016 GIZ developed a guidance document for scaling, and published a brochure with case studies in 2018. During 2022, GIZ commissioned a review of its approach to scaling. The webinar will [...]
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This blog was initially posted on Broadband Search. With the current crisis keeping most people around the world inside their homes except for the essentials, people have needed to readjust their routines regularly, whether that means work, communication with loved ones, or other things entirely. And few people have been hit as hard as students, whether they are in kindergarten [...]
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Reposted 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 Agreement climate targets, everyone involved […]
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A recent Working Paper for the Scaling Community of Practice (CoP) identified a number of cross-cutting issues whose further exploration would benefit the entire CoP membership. One of these was the relationship between Scaling and Systems. There has been a vigorous debate in the scaling community on the extent to which systems need to be taken into account in scaling […]
