SCoP Town Hall: The crisis in development finance and the need for a more systematic focus on transformational scaling

About 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 to the crisis. We will also brief you on how the Scaling Community of Practice is responding at this critical moment.  In particular, we will brief you on the Community’s campaign to mainstream scaling in development and climate action, listen to your ideas and perspectives, and explore ways to involve you actively in the Mainstreaming Campaign going forward.

Speakers

Larry Cooley

Larry Cooley is Founder and President Emeritus of Management Systems International and a specialist in managing large system change. He currently serves as Chair of the Governing Council of the Society for International Development and is the author of widely used methodologies for managing policy change, scaling innovation, entrepreneurship development, and results-based management. Larry is an elected Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; a Trustee of Elma Philanthropies; founder and co-curator of the Global Community of Practice on Scaling Development Outcomes, and Co-Chair of its Working Group on Monitoring and Evaluation
Johannes Linn

Johannes F. Linn is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Distinguished Resident Scholar at the Emerging Markets Forum in Washington, D.C., a Senior Fellow at the Results for Development Institute and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation. He is co-founder and co-chair of the international Scaling Community of Practice. He currently serves as Global Facilitator for the Systematic Observation Financing Facility (SOFF) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). From 2005-2010 he was Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Before that, he worked for three decades at the World Bank, including as Vice President for Financial Policy and Resource Mobilization and as Vice President for Europe and Central Asia. He holds a bachelor degree from Oxford University and a doctorate in economics from Cornell University.
 
Lan Mercado

Lan Mercado is the CRS Director of Catalyzing Scale through Evidence (CASCADE). She has over two decades of experience in senior leadership positions with INGOs where she led organizational change and managed large and complex development, humanitarian and conservation portfolios, working with diverse teams across geographies. Lan served in various senior roles in Oxfam including Co-Director for Strategy and Feminist Futures, Asia Regional Director, Deputy Director for Global Campaigns and Philippines Country Director. Prior to joining CRS, she was World Wide Fund for Nature’s Asia Pacific Regional Director. She also served as an Advisor to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). She is known as an innovative and pragmatic visionary with an empowering and facilitative leadership style. Lan has a B.A. in Communications and has done post-graduate studies in sustainable development and environmental science and management. She was a fellow at the Transnational NGOs Initiative of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
Charlotte Coogan

Charlotte has a small, independent consulting firm where she strives to use the most rigorous possible methods to answer decision-relevant questions for actors in the international development space through a collaborative approach to research. She tries to serve as a bridge between the vast evidence base on food security and nutrition topics and the actionable needs of specific stakeholders. She has a decade of experience in international development and a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Simon Winter

Simon Winter became SFSA Executive Director in 2017. He joined from TechnoServe, where he had been SVP, Development in Washington, D.C, and previously led operations in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2015-2017, Simon was also a Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the Griffith Foods Sustainability Advisory Council, the Dalberg Trust Board, the ACRE Africa Board, and, the TechnoServe, South Africa Board. He is an adviser to the World Economic Forum’s food and agriculture work, including being an Ambassador for the Food Innovation Hubs.  He is an adviser to the Steering Committee of the Farm to Market Alliance, where he served as Chair from 2019 to 2023. Past board roles include: Root Capital and a founding member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Steering Committee. His earlier career included management positions at McKinsey & Co, development consulting, economic planning for a Ministry in Botswana, and roles on three continents with Barclay’s Bank. A UK citizen, Simon holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, London.
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