The magnitude of the issues that conservation professionals collectively are facing – global loss of biodiversity, land use change, invasive species, and climate change – means that we cannot simply focus on individual projects. Instead, we need to take action more effectively across the much larger range of program scales needed to address these global issues. The Taking Conservation to Scale Learning Network worked with six real-world conservation programs to develop and test a framework for achieving impact at scale more systematically. This framework has been explicitly designed to integrate with and build on the Conservation Standards approach. It has subsequently been tested with a number of additional programs, with the findings being used to improve both the framework and the tools used to implement it. In this session, we will provide an overview of the FOS Scaling Challenge, a step-by-step method that coaches and practitioners can use to help their teams road-test their scaling ideas. We will then give participants a chance to apply some of the key tools in the Scaling Challenge to specific projects.

Hosts: Nick Salafsky, Marcia Brown, Caroline Stem, Valentina Aldana-Varón