Guiding principle 2: Optimal scale
Optimal scale challenges the "bigger is better" scaling model. Scaling produces a collection of impacts and to determine optimal scale, we have to consider the trade-offs between different...
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Guiding principle 4: Dynamic evaluation
Scaling creates dynamic change that calls for dynamic evaluation – continuous learning before, during and after scaling. Dynamic evaluation helps us to apply the other three principles by...
Guiding principle 3: Coordination
Scaling takes place in complex systems and involves coordinating with a diverse and evolving set of stakeholders. Considering the people, places and things that affect or are affected by the...
Guiding principle 1: Justification
Scaling is a choice that must be justified based on a balance of technical evidence and values. And that choice to scale must be shared. An introduction to Guiding principle 1:...
Final session: remaining challenges in scaling science and practice
The final session offered the chance to explore remaining questions by IDRC. Guiding questions What were some good practices that emerged to support integration of...
Learning from 2020: being global by engaging locally
2020 has been a difficult year. We have all had to deal with personal and professional challenges. We have all been affected – some more than others – by the pandemic...
New Peruvian think tanks. Part one: LidLab
I have chosen four new – or relatively new – think tanks to write about. Each has a different business model and offers a different proposal, but they all promise to contribute to...
Gustav Brauckmeyer, Executive Director, Equilibrium CenDE
Equilibrium CenDE caught my attention for two main reasons: its Latin America focus and its foreign founders. In Peru, it is not common to find researchers or research...
Closing remarks with keynote listeners
For the closing session, we decided on a different approach. We invited a set of keynote listeners from different regions to share their insights and thoughts about the keynote and parallel...
An interview with Peter Da Costa
And that's the 60-million-dollar question: how do you get to that point where everything we all do as actors and the system responds to what needs to be done… as opposed to what we, who are...
Policy influence training for DGAP
Project brief OTT has designed and delivered an online workshop for DGAP on policy influencing at the programme level. The project involves: Design and facilitation of two three-hour...
Diana Torres, principal researcher at URBES-LAB: on founding a new think tank
The URBES-LAB research group focuses on the analysis and production of critical theory and history of ‘the city’. The first time I came across URBES-LAB was at the...