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RE: Evaluating Scaling Efforts: Measuring What Matters

Marc Schut

Kenya

Marc Schut

Senior Advisor and Scientist

CGIAR and Wageningen University

Posted on 13/01/2025

Dear colleagues,

Great to connect here and good to see the engagement from various corners of the scaling community. My name is Marc Schut and I work as senior innovation portfolio management advisor with CGIAR. I am also affiliated to Wageningen University as senior innovation and scaling scientist. Happy to see that some of our work is in your recommended reading list :-)

For the past 10 years, we've been contributing to put scaling on the agenda in CGIAR and beyond. This resulted from a lack of realism of what responsible scaling is, and what it takes to achieve impact at scale. A key instrument is the Scaling Readiness approach that supports innovation teams in profiling their innovation, design and assess context-specific innovation bundles and packages, and co-create scaling strategies to overcome key bottlenecks for scaling.

Beyond Scaling Readiness, we've been trying to advance practice and science of scaling in various ways, including:

Our team is very interested in expanding the work and learning from others so please do reach out and engage us in exchanges and cross-learning!