The October 2020 “Annual Workshop” of the Community of Practice on Scaling Development Outcomes (CoP) included 12 separate mini-events over a two-week period – 3 plenary sessions and one standalone session conducted by each of the CoP’s 9 working groups. The CoP subsequently
published a paper summarizing 10 cross-cutting issues that emerged from these discussions, and decided to initiate a webinar series to explore some of these issues in greater depth. The first of these webinars will be on
Scaling and Systems Change – Chicken and Egg? and will be held on
May 25th from 10:30-12:00 EDT.
For the upcoming webinar, the CoP has invited two accomplished experts,
Kevin Starr and Daniel Kehrer, to share their perspectives on large-scale change from a transactional and from a systems perspective, respectively. Kevin Starr is CEO of the Mulago Foundation and recently published
an article in SSIR questioning the practical utility of systems analysis as an approach to scaling. Daniel Kehrer is Planning Advisor for Climate Change and Environmental Policy at GIZ and is the principal author of a
thoughtful report commissioned by GIZ on the utility of systems analysis.
In preparation for the meeting, the CoP commissioned Richard Kohl to develop a short
issues paper that will be used to guide the discussion.
