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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.

International Advocacy Evaluation Community of Practice Collecting Webinar Topics

The International Advocacy Evaluation Community of Practice (CoP), co-hosted by Innovations for Scaling Impact (iScale), and the Center for Evaluation Innovation, is collecting ideas for topics for its webinar series. We want to hear from you!

Please share your ideas for the webinar series, as well as your ideas for the CoP to address more broadly in its operations.

Through the CoP, advocates, evaluators, philanthropic foundations and other stakeholders share ideas and collectively develop new understanding about the contribution of advocacy to effective policy and practice. To share your ideas for webinar topics, or to learn more about the CoP, please contact Subarna Mathes at smathes@scalingimpact.net.

iScale Presents at the 2011 American Evaluation Association Conference

Subarna Mathes, iScale Steward, presented on international advocacy evaluation at the 2011 American Evaluation Association annual conference on November 4, 2011, in Anaheim, California. The conference was broken down into over 40 Topical Strands that examined the field from the vantage point of a particular methodology, context, or issue of interest as well as the Presidential Strand highlighting this year's Presidential Theme of Values and Valuing. Subarna's presentation examined the successes and challenges of designing and implementing an Integrated Planning, Assessment, Reporting, and Learning (IPARL) approach for the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS.

iScale Presents at 7th INTRAC M&E Conference

Subarna Mathes, iScale Steward, is presenting on advocacy evaluation at the 2011 INTRAC/PSO/PRIA Monitoring and Evaluation Conference on June 15 in The Netherlands. The conference will examine key elements and challenges confronting the evaluation of international development, including its funding, practice, and future. The purpose is to review and share new initiatives, approaches, issues, and challenges to the M&E of development. INTRAC will be convening this event with PSO, the Netherlands and PRIA, India. The presentation examines the successes and challenges of designing and implementing an Impacts Planning, Assessment, Reporting, and Learning (IPARL) approach for the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS.

New Approach to Multi-Stakeholder Network Assessment

Assessing the effectiveness of networks is a notoriously under-developed field. iScale Senior Stewards Horacio Trujillo and Steve Waddell applied their thinking to the International Land Coalition, a multi-stakeholder network aiming to promote secure and equitable access to, and control over, land through advocacy, dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building. The major ILC participants are NGOs and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) like the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Read Steve's blog about the experience on the website of Networking Action.

iScale Evaluation of the Campaign to End Pediatric AIDS Underway

The three-person team of Catrina Lucero, Subarna Mathes and Michaela Leslie-Rule have begun field visits to Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria as part of iScale’s review and evaluation of the Campaign to End Pediatric AIDS (CEPA) at the halfway point of the campaign’s first three-year implementation period.

iScale’s Growing Portfolio on Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (MNCH)

iScale’s engagement in the field of Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (MNCH) is growing steadily as a third leg of its Health+Livelihoods Program. The most recent iScale engagement in the field has involved Rashmir Balasubramaniam’s recent collaboration in the evaluation of Innovations for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, a collaboration between Concern Worldwide, UNICEF and Ministries of Health, which seeks to generate innovative ideas to improve the health of women, newborns and young children in six countries, beginning with Malawi, Sierra Leone and the state of Orissa in India.