Developing, applying, sharing, and promoting innovations for scaling impact
iScale is a social enterprise network of organizations and people that develops, promotes, applies, and shares innovations for scaling impact.
The world is rife with complex, unyielding, and often brutal problems that cross all kinds of boundaries—geographical, sectoral, and functional—from the local to the global levels. These problems range in fields from finance to health to environment to human rights to corruption. Meanwhile, an ever broader range of stakeholders in government, private sector and civil society are creatively working to address these problems. iScale works around the world from the local to the global levels to dramatically scale the impact of these efforts.
New Brief on Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
iScale’s Impact Planning, Assessment, Reporting and Learning (IPARL) approach is a holistic framework being developed by iScale and its partners which brings together theory of change, monitoring, evaluation and stakeholder engagement for continuous improvement. The IPARL framework consists of a general set of key components and a menu of options that can be tailored by practitioners to match their specific needs. The IPARL approach is particularly useful for contributing to complicated and complex scaling impact initiatives that involve networks, advocacy campaigns, multistakeholder engagement, and/or multi-level coordination. Read the two-page overview. See also a brief on a network life-cycle IPARL or a full paper on IPARL for additional background. For an example of IPARL in action, see a slide deck of how IPARL was implemented for CEPA.
iScale welcomes Rashmir Balasubramaniam
iScale welcomes Rashmir Balasubramaniam as the Senior Steward for Market Innovations. Prior to iScale, Rashmir spent five years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she led a cross-sector initiative on private sector engagement and market development and drove strategy and built and managed a diverse portfolio of grants for the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Program. With 15 years of experience across the public and private sectors, Rashmir has led and managed a variety of cross-sectoral development projects, including work on malaria, reproductive health, human resources for health, and institutional development.
Just released: An Advocacy Toolkit for the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS
iScale and the Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) have just released a toolkit that provides step-by-step guidance for those who want to replicate the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA) in their countries. iScale's Impacts Planning, Assessment, Reporting, and Learning (IPARL) framework which links together strategic planning, monitoring and learning (for real-time adjustment) and impact evaluation, features prominently in the toolkit. The toolkit is based on iScale and GAA's CEPA work, but it can be easily applied to other advocacy settings. For more information download the toolkit or contact us.
Peacebuilding Project
Prompting stakeholders to engage in strategic conversations by examining the roles, relationships, and linkages of organizations working to address conflict. Read MoreStrategic Mapping
Identifying high leverage points and creating broad understanding of how to take joint action in organizational networks by using mapping tools that reveal the underpinnings of the "system".
Read MoreImpacts Community of Practice
Exploring the challenges networks face in measuring their impact and developing innovative solutions in a Community of Practice including representatives from various networks, evaluation experts and practitioners.
Read MoreGlobal Finance Initiative
The global finance crisis is a unique opportunity to create a 21st century global financial system that responds to social, environmental, wealth generation and stability concerns. The GFI is about how to realize that. Watch a clip of iScale's Lead Steward, Sanjeev Khagram, speak on civil society keeping governments accountable on budgeting and finance at the 2010 CIVICUS World Assemby (scroll to 59:14 - 1:02:40).
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