MEMBER STORIES & STUDIES
Members’ stories and studies share firsthand experiences and learning from across the global scaling community. Contributions are welcomed year‑round, with stories often spotlighted during newsletter production cycles.
The Best Internet Tools For Distance Learning
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 or their last year of high school. College students face the prospect of online-only classes, something that probably annoys them just as much as their professors. Fortunately, the internet and the wide selection of tools it can offer are a saving grace during these trying times. There are ...
Evaluation approaches to scaling – application and lessons
This blog was initially posted on the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). Read the full blog post here ...
Evaluation for impact at scale – a need for interventions along the pathway
This blog was initially published on the International Initiative for Impact Education (3ie). Read the full blog post here ...
Hardwiring the scaling-up habit in donor organizations
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 must ask themselves how their innovations, projects, or activities can identify successful interventions and scale them up. Over the last 15 years, teams at Brookings have tried to figure this out by taking stock of what we know from literature and ...
Public Expenditure for Child Care Reform: How to Use Influence to Reach Scale
By: Beth Bradford, Changing the Way We Care Technical Director, Maestral and Erica Dahl-Bredine, Changing the Way We Care Influence, Learning, and Engagement Director, CRS Efforts to promote family care of children and reduce the reliance of national children’s care systems on residential institutions depend heavily on public systems and therefore public finance. National care reform is increasingly on the agenda in many countries, but has been threatened recently by the COVID-19 pandemic, as government priorities and budgets shift toward pandemic prevention and response. Furthermore, due to the pandemic, most countries are experiencing reduced economic activity and government revenues and ...
Sierra Leone Shows Low-Cost Scaling Up of Community Based Legal Advice and Assistance is Possible
By: Marcus Manuel (m.manuel@odi.org.uk) and Clare Manuel, ODI Summary Forthcoming ODI research shows that the new, mainly government-funded, Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board has scaled up community-based justice advice and assistance by a factor of 10 and has done so affordably, reducing unit costs by a factor of at least 5 compared to previous foundation and donor-supported programmes. The Board was created in 2015 and now deploys paralegals across the country. ODI estimate it is meeting one third of the demand for justice advice and assistance. Detail The 20-year-long story behind the development of the Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board ...
Strengthening Sustainable Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programming in Lebanon through the Ahlan Simsim/Play to Learn Scaling Approach
By: IRC Team Vulnerable infants and children in Lebanon, including Syrian refugees between the ages of 0 and 5, face a general lack of quality early childhood support and are frequently exposed to stressful home environments. Often, they don’t have access to pre-school or daycare services that support their early development. This is due to an unequal distribution of daycares and nurseries between central urban and rural areas. There is also a lack of unified national standards to ensure healthy, child-friendly safe and inclusive daycares and nurseries in Lebanon. With the aim of bridging this gap and boosting children’s access to quality ...
HarvestPlus Updates Biofortification Priority Index with More Crops and Features
By: Destan Aytekin (D.Aytekin@cgiar.org) HarvestPlus and Ekin Birol (E.Birol@cgiar.org) What is the Biofortification Priority Index (BPI)? The BPI is an analytical tool developed by Harvestplus to inform data-driven decisions for scaling up biofortification. It is also recognized as one of the notable innovations of the CGIAR global agricultural research partnership over the past 50 years. The BPI helps identify where investments in biofortification can have the biggest bang for the buck among 128 countries that the Index covers. The BPI provides rankings of country-level investment potential for 13 types of staple crops. What is new on the BPI? The BPI ...
Can a Telenovela Help Kids Stay in School during COVID-19?
By Sergio De Marco and Barbara Sparrow A still from the telanovela “Decidiendo para un Futuro Mejor” (Choosing a Better Future). In late 2020, as part of Peru’s national mobilization for educational continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s Ministry of Education started airing episodes of a telanovela “Decidiendo para un Futuro Mejor” (Choosing a Better Future), on national TV, embedded in the remote education lessons. But the telanovela was a little unusual—it was conceived and tested by researchers Oswaldo Molina, Christopher Neilson, and Francisco Gallego, with the Ministry’s in-house lab, MinedLAB, and with IPA and J-PAL a few years before, and the data suggested it might ...
