WEBINARS Imagining an Innovation Journey Without Silicon Valley PilotsAbout the sessionSummarySpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Instead of relying on traditional innovation ""pilots,"" what if we began the journey to scale by focusing on complete systems? A growing body of research shows that successful real-world innovations require innovators to weave diverse elements into complex systems. Yet for years the Silicon Valley inspired approach to [...]SCoP Town Hall: The crisis in development finance and the need for a more systematic focus on transformational scalingAbout the sessionSummarySpeakersRecordingAbout the session Description As announced in our recent Newsletter #32, in this townhall meeting we would like to give you all an opportunity to share with each other and with us your perspective on the crisis in development and climate assistance and how the scaling agenda needs to be adapted to respond [...]Scaling Climate and Development Action “Lessons from the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) and Aim4ScaleAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Accurate weather and climate predictions are essential for effective climate action and sustainable development. However, many Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States lack the necessary weather observation infrastructure to contribute critical data to the global system. To address this gap, the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) [...]CRS’s Experience in Catalyzing Scale Mindset and Organizational ShiftAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description CRS aims to catalyze humanitarian and development outcomes at scale by collaborating with, convening, and accompanying a variety of stakeholders within systems to support local actors to achieve humanitarian and development outcomes that are equitable, inclusive, and at the scale that is appropriate for the size of the [...]Insights from COP29: Where do we go from here on Scaling Climate Finance?About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Join us for an engaging one-hour session as we delve into the key outcomes of COP29, focusing on the landmark decision to increase global climate financing from $100 billion to $300 billion annually. Despite this significant step forward, a recent report by Amar Bhattacharya, Vera Songwe, and Nicholas [...]Mainstreaming Scaling with the Syngenta Foundation: Lessons from a Small Agri-Food FoundationAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) is a small foundation based in Basel, Switzerland that develops and scales sustainable innovation in smallholder agri-food systems. SFSA has been primarily an implementing foundation that bridges the gap between research on innovations and their adoption for use by smallholders. SFSA [...]Mainstreaming Scaling with Grand Challenges CanadaAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Since inception, Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) has been pursuing a deliberate strategy in the pursuit of sustainable impact at scale. The recently completed case study of GCC's effort to systematically mainstream scaling documents GCC's journey of integrating a scaling perspective into its funding approach to date and its [...]Utilizing IT Platforms to Enhance Youth EmploymentAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description In this webinar, we will discuss how Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms can facilitate the scaling up of youth employment in MENA through AI-powered up-skilling and mentorship targeted at unemployed youth and tech startups. This webinar will highlight a model aim at connecting technology professionals in the United States [...]Mainstreaming Scaling in a Large INGO: The Case of CAREAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description In this session, CARE and scaling partners IDinsight and Geneva Global will provide insight into how CARE has mainstreamed scaling into institutional vision and strategy, and the organization’s ongoing efforts to embed and operationalize the principles, practices and mindsets of scale in its DNA. The panel will discuss: [...]Informed by Rigorous EvidenceAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Information about new agricultural technologies can help farmers make informed decisions about which ones to adopt. However, research shows that current information dissemination strategies do not always reach all farmers, nor are the recommendations always actionable or profitable. An updated J-PAL Policy Insight of 41 randomized evaluations shows that the [...]Scaling 3.0, Future Directions for Scaling and for the Scaling Community of PracticeAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The session was divided in two segments. During the first segment Elissa Miolene engaged Larry Cooley, Isabel Guerrero, and Johannes Lin in a conversation about the progress with scaling over the last decade, what is getting in the way of change, what we learn from students today whom [...]Scaling Nutrition Interventions: The Role of the Private SectorAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description After being dormant for a few years, the Nutrition Working Group re-launched with a discussion on scaling nutrition interventions, focusing on the private sector. Charlotte Lane set the stage, challenging the status quo of hyper-localized, small-scale nutrition initiatives and advocating for a paradigm shift towards large-scale, impactful solutions. [...]Navigating Ethical Considerations When Supporting Scale Up of Health InterventionsAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Moderator Dr. Ben Cislaghi provided an initial framing on ethical principles and values using four metaphors for framing global health: as a supermarket, a boxing ring, a colony, and/or a juggernaut. Like supermarkets, global health is often focused on selling outputs, such as vaccines. Global health is like [...]Political Economies (PE) of Scaling in Fragile ContextsAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The session, moderated by Robert Chase, featured two presentations. In the first presentation, Alastair McKechnie spoke about scaling the basic health services packages in Afghanistan. The second presentation by Pallavi Roy provided bottom-up solutions from Nigeria’s electricity generation sector. Afghanistan Alastair McKechnie explained that in the early 2000s, [...]Scaling Approaches for Education AssessmentsAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description With the 2015 formal approval of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.1.1 on education quality, governments are grappling with the most cost effective and sustainable way to measure minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics for children in primary and secondary school. A wide array of reading and [...]Unlocking Potential – Agricultural Transformation and Scaling in Tanzania’s Southern HighlandsAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) was established in 2010 by the Government of Tanzania to accelerate public-private partnerships to transform agriculture, boost incomes and improve nutrition in the Southern Highlands, one of the poorest regions of the country. The platform has helped to crowd in [...]Scaling Youth Employment in Response to Opportunities Created by the Energy TransitionAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Liz Vance, the session moderator, began the session by explaining that green jobs are one of the world’s most rapidly growing occupations: the International Energy Agency projects that adopting clean energy technologies will generate millions of jobs by 2030, with millions more to retrofit and construct energy-efficient buildings and manufacture new energy vehicles. The [...]Legislative Opportunities to Catalyze Social Enterprise ScalingAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description Isabel Guerrero welcomed panelists and participants. She also introduced Colin Christensen, co-chair with Isabel of the Social Enterprise Innovation Working Group. Dan Gregory provided an overview of issues that social enterprises face in the UK and globally. Natalia Agapitova spoke about her many years of supporting social enterprise [...]Bridging Evidence to Policy Through Data for Scaling and Systems ChangeAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session 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 [...]Scaling Private Investment in Climate Adaptation and BiodiversityAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session 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 [...]Book Launch: Scaling Up Development ImpactAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session 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 [...]Mainstreaming a Systematic Approach to Scaling to Funding OrganizationsAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session 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 [...]Scaling IFAD’s operations: The route to bigger, better, and sustainable impactAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description The event highlighted IFAD's robust framework stemming from decades of experience. The importance of clarity on successful scaling was emphasized, as well as integration into mainstream efforts. Moving forward, alignment between proposals and scaling prospects, coupled with senior management endorsement, is crucial for IFAD's strategic effectiveness. It is [...]Webinar recap: What is a food system – and can we actually transform it?About the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session This webinar was originally posted by the CGIAR Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems (CGIAR). The view the original post click here. Everyone wants “food system transformation” and getting there in a sustainable and equitable way gets you the golden ticket – at least to donor support. The term “food [...]Book Talk: Scaling Up Development ImpactAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description This webinar was originally held under by the Center for Global Development (CGD). The view the original post click here. Today, nearly one billion people lack electricity, more than three billion lack clean water, and 750 million lack basic literacy skills. Many of these challenges could be [...]Webinar on Innovative financing approaches for the middle phase of scalingAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description 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 [...]Webinar on Scaling Mainstreaming Guinea Global Fund ProgramAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description 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 [...]Use of evidence and measurement in institutionalising gender interventions through government pathwaysAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session 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 [...]Scaling built into delivery modelsAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description 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 [...]Mainstreaming Scaling in Funder OrganizationsAbout the sessionSpeakersRecordingAdditional ResourcesAbout the session Description 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, [...]
