Innovations for Scaling Impact (iScale) is a global network of individuals and organizations committed to developing, implementing and promoting innovations to scale the impact of efforts to address the world’s most pressing challenges. iScale is a leader in advancing the effectiveness of efforts to promote the global public good through:
- Multi-Stakeholder Action for Scaled Impact – fostering and supporting multi-actor initiatives, from action-learning and donor collaboratives to cross-sectoral action networks
- Communities of Practice and Innovation – facilitating dialogue among practitioners, beneficiaries and other stakeholders to share knowledge and develop new understanding
- Policy and Governance Innovation Networks – spurring and supporting policymakers, advocates and others working together to advance norms and improve institutions
- Strategy and Planning for Scaled Impact – employing and advancing innovations such as Systems-Oriented Theories of Change and Action for Organizations and Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives, Outcomes Mapping, and Value Network Analysis
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Impact – integrating meaningful and actionable assessment effectively into programs to support the realization of their greatest impact
- Information, Communication and Media Innovations – deploying new technologies to expand access to information, foster open governance, and advance collective learning
iScale partners with leading public, private and nonprofit institutions to develop and harness these innovations to advance global progress in five programmatic areas:
- Peace + Security
- Governance + Transparency
- Environment + Climate
- Health + Education + Livelihoods
- Business + Markets
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iScale is Hiring
iScale is continually seeking to expand its team. We are looking for people with technical analytic competencies related to our innovation streams, particularly those with expertise in more than one area. A steward must have exceptional written and verbal communications skills. We seek lopsided generalists who can bring their expertise to an opportunity to work with an adaptive team engaging with pioneering leaders in the issue and innovation fields we address.
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Items In Our Resources Feeds
- New Opportunity to Finance PEFA-related Research Through SAFE Grants
- How NATO Can Remain Relevant
- WE Week: Laura Gagliardone on Participatory Communication and Evaluation Walk Hand in Hand
- The future of EU budget support: political conditions, differentiation and coordination (Discussion papers, May 2012)
- How FIRST Refined Its Theory of Change to Improve Measurement
News
iScale Partnering with International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Western Hemisphere Region on International Advocacy Evaluation Framework
Innovations for Scaling Impact (iScale) has begun work with International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) to develop a framework to assess the effectiveness of its international advocacy efforts. The framework is intended to help improve the effectiveness of the planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning steps all along the advocacy chain. This includes articulating a clear theory of change, selecting a suite of unburdensome tools to collect and monitor progress, and identifying appropriate methods to evaluate that progress. This holistic framework will integrate strategy and planning with monitoring, evaluation, and learning in order to inform IPPF/WHR’s international advocacy strategy and specific tactics moving forward and demonstrate the effectiveness of its advocacy interventions, and in so doing scale the overall impact of IPPF/WHR’s advocacy efforts.
iScale and CEI to launch webinar series on international advocacy evaluation
Innovations for Scaling Impact (iScale) and the Center for Evaluation Innovation, co-hosts of the International Advocacy Evaluation Community of Practice (IAE-CoP), are pleased to announce the launch of a new series of original webinars to offer IAE-CoP participants additional opportunities for focused exploration of new evaluation approaches that contribute to the improved effectiveness of international advocacy efforts. This series of webinars is a new complement to the other activities of the IAE-CoP to serve as a clearinghouse for events worldwide addressing the evaluation and effectiveness of advocacy to address the pressing global challenges.
Each of the webinars in this original series will start with one or more practitioners discussing their experience of developing or creatively refining a methodology for evaluating international advocacy efforts, followed by an opportunity for participants to ask and discuss questions brought up by the presentation, and share their insights and seek guidance on challenges stemming from their own work with international advocacy efforts. Upcoming webinars will be on:
- Integrating planning, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting for continuous improvement of international multi-level advocacy networks
- Using theory of change, theories of action, and outcome mapping as a means of integrating planning and strategy with monitoring and evaluating international advocacy efforts
- Using constituency feedback and comparative benchmarking as a means of monitoring and evaluating international advocacy efforts
Details for the first webinars, focused on global-to-local advocacy networks.
For more information on the International Advocacy Evaluation Community of Practice, or to join the new CoP workspace, please email Subarna Mathes at smathes@scalingimpact.net.
Innovations for Scaling Impact Webinar Series on Increasing the Effectiveness of Networks Working on Global Public Challenges
Update: Changes in Dates/Times of Webinars
Since 2008, iScale, with generous support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), has been working with and examining networks that focus on addressing various global public challenges.
Beginning in late March 2012, iScale will host webinars to discuss this work on how networks working on global public challenges can increase their effectiveness and scale impact. The webinars will be offered in two formats:
- A Condensed session will last 1.5 hours and will:
- Provide an overview of networks as agents of change;
- Provide an overview of the challenges of network monitoring and evaluation;
- Provide an introduction to frameworks to help networks scale impact.
- Facilitate a Q&A and discussion session on the above
- An Extended session will last a maximum of 3 hours and provide a deeper look at each of the sections noted above. This session will also include a Q&A section, as well as a section in which participants can share their experiences on increasing the effectiveness of and scaling impact of their networks.
What our Collaborators are Saying
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"The review of ILC’s Strategic Framework 2007-2011 by Innovations for Scaling Impact has generated results far beyond our expectations. We started by anticipating an ordinary evaluation in which projected results and actual achievements would be compared and analysed. We ended up engaging in a radical collective reflection on who we are, what brings us together, what is our comparative advantage, and how to position ILC in the future. A constructive tension between continuity and innovation has emerged from the internal consultations… For these reasons I think the process facilitated by iScale is as important as its end product, the review report."
Madiodio Niasse, Director, International Land Coalition Secretariat |
Events of Interest
| IAIA12 Energy Future: The Role of Impact Assessment | 05/27/12 - 06/01/12 |
The 32nd annual conference of the International Association For Impact Assessement, Energy Future: The Role of Impact Assessment, will take place in Porto, Portugal. |
| ISEAL Conference 2012 | 05/29/12 - 05/30/12 |
Exploring Innovation and Partnership in the Standards Movement. (Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Germany) |
| Report launch - IMF Regional Economic Outlook for Africa: "Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty" | 05/31/12 |
ODI hosts the launch of the IMF's 2012 Regional Economic Outlook for Africa report "Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty." The report focuses on recent economic developments and prospects for the region, against the backdrop of the tentative global recovery and remaining large uncertainties. (London and online) |
| Aid & International Development Forum 2012 | 06/06/12 - 06/07/12 |
A forum for the humanitarian aid, relief and development sectors which facilitates partnerships, addresses global humanitarian and development issues and encourages the sharing of expertise. AIDF. (Washington, D.C.) |
| 19th Annual Conference on Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks | 07/02/12 - 07/04/12 |
This conference brings together scholars and practitioners interested in partnerships, alliances and networks between business organizations, civil society organizations and government organizations. This includes public-private partnerships, multi-stakeholder-platforms, business-ngo partnerships, corporate social responsibility, collaborative governance, interactive policy-making, network management, supply chain partnerships, R&D partnerships and business alliances. (Wageningen, the Netherlands) |
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Updates
New Date for MENA Region: Innovations for Scaling Impact Webinar Series on Increasing the Effectiveness of Networks Working on Global Public Challenges
This is an update that a 1.5 hour session for Middle East/North Africa Region is now scheduled for Friday, May 11, 2012, beginning at GMT 13:00 (Cairo: 3pm; NYC: 10am). All are welcome.
The webinars:
- Provide an overview of networks as agents of change;
- Provide an overview of the challenges of network monitoring and evaluation;
- Provide an introduction to frameworks to help networks scale impact.
- Facilitate a Q&A and discussion session on the above
Register at https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/151894550
iScale selects Emerging Leaders in Strategic Learning and Evaluation of Innovations for Scaling Impact
Innovations for Scaling Impact (iScale) is pleased to recognize its Emerging Leaders in Strategic Learning and Evaluation of Innovations for Scaling Impact. Each of the leaders in the emerging field of strategic learning of innovations for scaling impact is attending the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference in Accra, Ghana, this week to be part of iScale’s growing learning community focused on strategic learning and evaluation of innovative approaches to advancing the global public good. iScale’s Emerging Leaders program is sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
- Adiza Lamien Ouando
- Awny Amer Morsy
- Bonaventure Wakana
- John Njovu
- Rita Sonko
- Viviane Sakanga
Find out about the emerging leaders below.
iScale is honored to have these Emerging Leaders as part of its growing global community of expert practitioners, action-learners and thought leaders.
Call for Nominations: iScale Award for Emerging Leaders in Strategic Learning and Evaluation of Innovations for Scaling Impact
Innovations for Scaling Impact (iScale) invites nominations of individuals to receive travel awards to attend the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference in Accra, Ghana, January 9-13, 2012, to be part of a growing learning community focused on strategic learning and evaluation of innovative approaches to advancing the global public good. This year iScale is inviting nominations related particularly to strategic learning and evaluation of networks and collaborations among different actors, and especially incorporating actors from the global south. Individuals may nominate others or themselves, and are requested to submit a résumé/curriculum vitae (CV) of the nominee's experience and a brief letter (of no more than two pages) describing the nominee's potential for contributing to the advancement of strategic learning and evaluation of network approaches to advancing the global public good. iScale invites nominations in particular from individuals working in and on conditions affecting the global south.