Public Sector Scaling

The scaling up of promising health innovations in Low- and Middle-Income countries (LMICs) is becoming an increasingly important area of interest for actors seeking to build efficient, resilient and adaptive health systems – particularly for governments seeking to build back better after the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, which has reversed many decades of progress in healthcare outcomes.

 In early 2020, members of the International Development Alliance (IDIA) agreed to make scaling - and public sector scaling in particular - one of their key priorities for the period 2020-2022. To begin exploring this largely neglected topic,  Grand Challenges Canada and Global Affairs Canada entered into a partnership with IDIA and local partner Insight Health Advisors, with a view to understanding how to drive institutional change in the way governments source and scale up innovations within their health systems. This partnership has resulted in the development of a Framework enabling local partners to facilitate the scaling process in partnership with government cohorts, and the locally-led design and implementation of a ‘Public Sector Scaling Action Lab’ which launched in April 2022 at the United Nations Science, Technology and Innovation Forum. Further information can be found below.