GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE ON SCALING DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES
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The Mainstreaming Tracker – a tool for assessing and managing the adoption of systematic approaches to scale by development funders
In Fall 2023, the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) launched a three-year action research initiative to study how organizations working in international development, principally funders, mainstream systematic approaches to supporting sustainable outcomes at scale – a “Mainstreaming Initiative.” In the course of this effort, it became clear that organizations interested in mainstreaming scaling could benefit [...]
Embedding scaling into evaluation methodology and practice: A call to action
As it faces the current development finance crisis, the development community is looking for diversified funding sources, including domestic resources, private investment, and charitable giving. However, the crisis also demands that we focus intensively on spending the available resources effectively, and in particular that development initiatives are structured to support long-term sustainable impact at scale. This, [...]
Evaluation Guidelines of Official International Development Funders
Abstract Development funders have an important role to play in supporting the pursuit of sustainable impact by the implementers of development programs, but this requires that they systematically integrate the objective of scaling, i.e., achieving sustainable impact at scale into their mission and their operational practices. Evaluation and evaluation guidelines are potentially important instruments for [...]
SCoP Town Hall: The crisis in development finance and the need for a more systematic focus on transformational scaling
About 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 [...]
The Mainstreaming Tracker: Tool Summary – a tool for assessing and managing the adoption of systematic approaches to scale by development funders
In Fall 2023, the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) launched a three-year action research initiative to study how organizations working in international development, principally funders, mainstream systematic approaches to supporting sustainable outcomes at scale – a “Mainstreaming Initiative.” In the course of this effort, it became clear that organizations interested in mainstreaming scaling could benefit [...]The Mainstreaming Tracker – a tool for assessing and managing the adoption of systematic approaches to scale by development funders
In Fall 2023, the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) launched a three-year action research initiative to study how organizations working in international development, principally funders, mainstream systematic approaches to supporting sustainable outcomes at scale – a “Mainstreaming Initiative.” In the course of this effort, it became clear that organizations interested in mainstreaming scaling could benefit [...]Embedding scaling into evaluation methodology and practice: A call to action
As it faces the current development finance crisis, the development community is looking for diversified funding sources, including domestic resources, private investment, and charitable giving. However, the crisis also demands that we focus intensively on spending the available resources effectively, and in particular that development initiatives are structured to support long-term sustainable impact at scale. This, [...]
